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.
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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Lord Jeffery Amherst, the colonial-era military commander who gave this town its name, will no longer represent the prestigious liberal arts college here.
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.
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 ...
Is It Discriminatory to Require Peer Review?
A former professor at the University of British Columbia who lost her tenure bid because of a poor publication record ...
Children urge Australia to free them from Nauru island ‘prison’
At just 10 years old, Mizba Ahmed and her family fled persecution in Myanmar.
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.
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.
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.
What the fourth industrial revolution means for sustainability
Against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps sparkling in the bright sun, I’ve been listening to some of the world’s most prominent business leaders discuss the next industrial revolution — and just what it will take to build a carbon-free economy.
