Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...

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Explore the shift in global research dominance, as Harvard falls in rankings and Chinese universities rise, leading to ...

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I pray that the new year, 2026, unfolds with fresh opportunities, meaningful growth, and endless possibilities. Amid the many ...

Discover the growing crisis of predatory journals and how they undermine academic careers, erode credibility, and block ...

In 1999, a decade after inventing the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, imagined an intelligent version of his creation. In that vision, much of daily life—finding ...

Tufts’ current and former political science professors Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser and Deborah J. Schildkraut published their new book, “Everyday Democracy: Liberals, Conservatives, and Their ...

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What is thought to be the world’s largest-known spider’s web, housing tens of thousands of arachnids, has been discovered in a cave on the Albanian-Greek border. After researchers published their ...

Computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has become the first person to have their work cited more than one million times on the search engine Google Scholar. Bengio, who is based at the University of ...

Junk science is a major problem resulting from medicine's "publish or perish" culture. Once published, it is incredibly difficult to remove from the scientific record. For years, researchers have been ...