Scientists offered $1 million in prizes to pre-register experiments
Scientists are being offered a $1,000 (£705) prize if they pre-register their plans for experiments in a bid to make research results more reproducible.
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Google ships five million Cardboard virtual reality devices
Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said it had shipped 5 million units of the Google Cardboard viewer, a wearable device that allows users to experience virtual reality through mobile apps.
Astronomers discover largest solar system
Astronomers have discovered the largest known solar system, consisting of a large planet that takes nearly a million years to orbit its star.
Children urge Australia to free them from Nauru island ‘prison’
At just 10 years old, Mizba Ahmed and her family fled persecution in Myanmar.
College activists create alarm over alleged ‘anti-Semitic attacks’
Alumni and students from a prominent college in Ohio are concerned that pro-Palestinian student activists have taken their political views too far ...
How students are sharing prescription drugs on Facebook
With the ever increasing pressures of life, more and more women are resorting to medication as a method of coping.
Amherst College drops ‘Lord Jeff’ as mascot
Lord Jeffery Amherst, the colonial-era military commander who gave this town its name, will no longer represent the prestigious liberal arts college here.
High rejection rates by journals ‘pointless’
The mass rejection of research papers by selective journals in a bid to achieve a high impact factor is an enormous waste of academics’ time, advocates of open access publishing have argued.
Tenure vs. Enrollment
A small Michigan university is citing declining enrollment in tenure denials, and faculty members allege the approach violates their contract.
China survey: many parents want children to identify job interests by middle school
Nine of 10 parents believe in the importance of nurturing a child's "career quotient" and 45 percent think middle school is the best time to start identifying job interests, a survey found.
