| Date / Time |
Story |
| Friday April 05, 2024 @04:14PM |
Academics Probe Apple's Privacy Settings and Get Lost and Confused |
| Thursday February 22, 2024 @05:51PM |
Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Requirement For Admission |
| Thursday June 30, 2022 @05:57PM |
'We Asked GPT-3 To Write an Academic Paper About Itself -- Then We Tried To Get It Published' |
| Monday October 28, 2019 @07:07PM |
Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education? |
| Tuesday August 27, 2019 @12:34PM |
VA Tech Student Arrested For Posting Perceived Threat Via Yik Yak |
| Sunday July 22, 2018 @09:43AM |
Some Colleges Cautiously Embrace Wikipedia |
| Monday May 07, 2018 @05:14PM |
Ask Slashdot: Do Citizen Science Platforms Exist? |
| Friday November 17, 2017 @06:30PM |
The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers |
| Friday October 06, 2017 @08:36PM |
Publishers Take ResearchGate To Court, Seek Removal of Millions of Papers |
| Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:53PM |
Elsevier Wants $15 Million In 'Piracy' Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen |
| Friday May 05, 2017 @05:13PM |
10 Percent of Harvard's Popular 'Introduction To Computer Science' Class Accused of Cheating |
| Tuesday May 17, 2016 @08:36PM |
Employers Struggle To Find Workers Who Can Pass A Drug Test |
| Friday April 22, 2016 @09:13PM |
CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access |
| Tuesday April 05, 2016 @06:46PM |
GE's Move To Boston Could Revive Local Tech Business Ambitions |
| Monday April 04, 2016 @06:41PM |
Massachusetts AG Sues ITT Tech For Exploiting Computer Network Students |
| Tuesday March 29, 2016 @12:00AM |
Ocean Temps Predict US Heat Waves 50 Days Out, Study Finds |
| Monday March 28, 2016 @07:46PM |
Hacker Weev Admits To Hacking Printers To Spew Racist and Anti-Semitic Messages |
| Thursday March 24, 2016 @07:33PM |
Supercomputers Help Researchers Improve Severe Hail Storm Forecasts |
| Monday March 21, 2016 @08:29PM |
How Uber Turned Carnegie Mellon Into a Minor Nursery For Its Research Division |
| Friday March 18, 2016 @05:42PM |
South Korea Commits $863 Million To AI Research After AlphaGo 'Shock' |
| Friday March 18, 2016 @05:13PM |
Neural Mechanisms In Mouse Brains Indicate We Actively Forget As We Learn |
| Wednesday March 16, 2016 @05:04PM |
5 Major Hospital Hacks: Horror Stories From the Cybersecurity Frontlines |
| Tuesday March 08, 2016 @04:18PM |
Reason Excoriates Paper On "Glaciers, Gender, and Science" |
| Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:59PM |
New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams |
| Monday February 29, 2016 @03:07PM |
Ask Slashdot: Establishing Procurement Policies Regarding Secure Boot? |
| Monday February 29, 2016 @10:30AM |
Are CEOs Overpaid? Not Compared With College Presidents |
| Friday February 26, 2016 @11:45AM |
America's Ten Most Oppressive Colleges |
| Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:11AM |
Many Surveys, About One In Five, May Contain Fraudulent Data |
| Tuesday February 23, 2016 @02:29PM |
Computer Engineer Wes Clark Dies at 88 |
| Thursday February 11, 2016 @03:33PM |
Interviews: Ask Author and Programmer Andy Nicholls About R |
| Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:35PM |
The Sexual Misconduct Case That Has Rocked Anthropology |
| Wednesday February 03, 2016 @10:19AM |
John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 |
| Thursday December 24, 2015 @09:36AM |
Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap |
| Thursday December 17, 2015 @11:26AM |
Geneticists Push For Databases Over Journals As Main Source of Information |
| Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:33AM |
New Scientific Journal To Publish "Discrete Observations Rather Than Complete Stories" |
| Friday November 20, 2015 @07:03PM |
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website |
| Saturday November 14, 2015 @03:59PM |
Experiment On Public Pre-reviewing and Discussion of Workshop Paper Submissions |
| Friday October 30, 2015 @06:22PM |
National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech |
| Monday October 26, 2015 @08:36AM |
Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? |
| Thursday October 22, 2015 @09:07AM |
How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls |
| Thursday October 08, 2015 @10:21AM |
Researchers Unable To Replicate Findings of Published Economics Studies |
| Thursday October 08, 2015 @09:57AM |
MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' |
| Friday September 11, 2015 @10:22AM |
In Survey of American Universities, MIT Scores Worst In Cybersecurity |
| Tuesday September 08, 2015 @09:48AM |
Machine Learning Could Solve Economists' Math Problem |
| Saturday August 29, 2015 @02:09AM |
John Conway: All Play and No Work For a Genius |
| Thursday August 27, 2015 @08:30AM |
Scientific Papers With Shorter Titles Get More Citations |
| Saturday June 27, 2015 @11:26AM |
Are We Too Quick To Act On Social Media Outrage? |
| Thursday May 28, 2015 @08:55AM |
A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years |
| Tuesday May 19, 2015 @10:01AM |
Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint |
| Friday May 01, 2015 @06:04PM |
Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women |
| Tuesday April 28, 2015 @12:08PM |
University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class |
| Friday April 17, 2015 @08:47PM |
Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal |
| Thursday April 16, 2015 @08:39AM |
Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? |
| Tuesday April 14, 2015 @11:49AM |
Cornell Study: For STEM Tenure Track, Women Twice As Likely To Be Hired As Men |
| Monday March 09, 2015 @03:42PM |
YouTube Video of Racist Chant Results In Fraternity Closure |
| Saturday February 21, 2015 @09:39PM |
How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests |
| Saturday February 07, 2015 @10:25AM |
Canadian Climate Scientist Wins Defamation Suit Against National Post |
| Thursday December 11, 2014 @02:13PM |
MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin |
| Thursday December 11, 2014 @12:16PM |
Study of Massive Preprint Archive Hints At the Geography of Plagiarism |
| Tuesday December 02, 2014 @09:39AM |
Nature Makes All Articles Free To View |
| Tuesday November 25, 2014 @10:06AM |
Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @01:58PM |
What Happens When Nobody Proofreads an Academic Paper |
| Thursday November 13, 2014 @11:25AM |
Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday |
| Thursday October 30, 2014 @09:14AM |
The Most Highly Cited Scientific Papers of All Time |
| Tuesday October 28, 2014 @08:11AM |
"Dance Your Ph.D." Finalists Announced |
| Tuesday September 23, 2014 @12:53PM |
Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? |
| Tuesday September 23, 2014 @08:28AM |
Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle |
| Friday September 19, 2014 @05:44PM |
Science Has a Sexual Assault Problem |
| Thursday September 11, 2014 @02:55PM |
Researcher Fired At NSF After Government Questions Her Role As 1980s Activist |
| Thursday July 10, 2014 @10:44AM |
Prof. Andy Tanenbaum Retires From Vrije University |
| Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:26AM |
How Often Do Economists Commit Misconduct? |
| Friday June 06, 2014 @07:49PM |
Fixing the Humanities Ph.D. |
| Sunday May 25, 2014 @01:33PM |
Ph.Ds From MIT, Berkeley, and a Few Others Dominate Top School's CS Faculties |
| Tuesday April 29, 2014 @12:19PM |
MIT Bitcoin Project To Create Cryptocurrency Ecosystem, Give $100 Per Student |
| Sunday April 20, 2014 @10:31AM |
Minerva CEO Details His High-Tech Plan To Disrupt Universities |
| Tuesday March 18, 2014 @12:59PM |
New Stanford Institute To Target Bad Science |
| Tuesday March 11, 2014 @04:00PM |
Ask Slashdot: College Club Fundraising On the Fly? |
| Thursday February 20, 2014 @09:19AM |
Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits |
| Saturday February 15, 2014 @12:24AM |
Ask Slashdot: E-ink Reader For Academic Papers? |
| Tuesday February 11, 2014 @09:17AM |
How Blogs Are Changing the Scientific Discourse |
| Sunday January 26, 2014 @06:15PM |
Michael Mann Defamation Suit Against National Review Writer to Proceed |
| Saturday December 28, 2013 @11:21PM |
Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings |
| Tuesday December 10, 2013 @09:05AM |
Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today |
| Friday December 06, 2013 @07:13PM |
Elsevier Going After Authors Sharing Their Own Papers |
| Sunday November 17, 2013 @03:48PM |
How MOOC Faculty Exploit People's Desire To Learn |
| Wednesday November 13, 2013 @01:56AM |
Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility |
| Tuesday November 12, 2013 @01:02PM |
Chicago State University Lawyers Attack Faculty Bloggers |
| Friday November 08, 2013 @08:30PM |
"Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced |
| Monday November 04, 2013 @10:34AM |
Hoax-Proofing the Open Access Journals |
| Sunday October 20, 2013 @08:37AM |
Debunking the Lorentz System As a Framework For Human Emotions |
| Friday October 11, 2013 @06:20PM |
Nobel Winners Illustrate Israel's "Brain Drain" |
| Thursday October 03, 2013 @04:44PM |
Science Magazine "Sting Operation" Catches Predatory Journals In the Act |
| Tuesday September 24, 2013 @08:18AM |
Romanian Science Journal Punked By Serbian Academics |
| Friday August 30, 2013 @06:25PM |
Romanian Science In Freefall |
| Saturday July 27, 2013 @05:53PM |
Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics |
| Saturday July 27, 2013 @04:01PM |
US Academy President Caught Embellishing Resume, Will Resign |
| Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:38PM |
Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard |
| Wednesday July 03, 2013 @06:25PM |
Boston U. Patent Lawsuits Hit Apple, Amazon, Samsung, and Others |
| Saturday June 08, 2013 @06:04PM |
MIT President Tells Grads To 'Hack the World' |
| Monday May 13, 2013 @10:01AM |
Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? |
| Thursday May 09, 2013 @11:09AM |
New 'Academic Redshirt' For Engineering Undergrads at UW |
| Friday April 05, 2013 @07:14PM |
Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Make You Into a Horrible Person |
| Sunday March 10, 2013 @03:36PM |
Harvard Secretly Searched Deans' Email |
| Friday March 08, 2013 @10:13PM |
Singaporean University Snubs Lauded (But Anti-Censorship) Professor |
| Friday March 08, 2013 @09:16PM |
US CompSci Enrollment Leaps For 5th Straight Year |
| Thursday January 31, 2013 @11:47AM |
Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? |
| Thursday January 24, 2013 @10:40AM |
CTO Says Al-Khabaz Expulsion Shows CS Departments Stuck In "Pre-Internet Era" |
| Friday January 18, 2013 @07:11PM |
Facebook Banter More Memorable Than Lines From Recent Books |
| Thursday January 03, 2013 @05:58PM |
Best Tech Colleges Are Harder Than Ever To Get In |
| Thursday January 03, 2013 @01:56PM |
AI Systems Designing Games |
| Sunday December 30, 2012 @08:39PM |
NewsCorp/NDS Spy Network Had a Source At Cambridge |
| Saturday December 15, 2012 @04:15PM |
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move |
| Saturday December 15, 2012 @01:56PM |
University of Chicago Receives Mystery Indiana Jones Package |
| Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:45PM |
Hacked Review System Leads To Fake Reviews and Retraction of Scientific Papers |
| Friday September 28, 2012 @08:46PM |
Sexism In Science |
| Tuesday September 18, 2012 @09:39AM |
Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails |
| Monday September 17, 2012 @02:06PM |
Study Attempts To Predict Scientists' Career Success |
| Monday September 10, 2012 @01:15PM |
The Problems With Online Math Classes |
| Friday July 06, 2012 @05:54PM |
University Sues Student For Graduating Early |
| Friday July 06, 2012 @12:15PM |
Dreaming of Digital Glory At Hacker Hostels |
| Tuesday July 03, 2012 @09:34AM |
A New Record For Scientific Retractions? |
| Thursday June 14, 2012 @08:14AM |
Journal Offers Flat Fee For 'All You Can Publish' |
| Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:26PM |
University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department |
| Tuesday March 27, 2012 @12:40PM |
Dysfunction In Modern Science? |
| Friday March 16, 2012 @06:35PM |
Psychic Ability Claim Doesn't Hold Up In New Scientific Experiments |
| Thursday February 23, 2012 @09:41AM |
Academics Not Productive Enough? Sack 'em |
| Thursday February 02, 2012 @10:27AM |
Estonian Tech University Bans Notebooks and Smartphones |
| Monday January 30, 2012 @01:42PM |
Ian Bogost Replies: Deep Thoughts On Gaming |
| Tuesday January 03, 2012 @01:53PM |
When Getting Rid of College Lectures Makes Sense |
| Tuesday December 06, 2011 @12:44PM |
Research Data: Share Early, Share Often |
| Sunday December 04, 2011 @03:50PM |
Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail |
| Wednesday November 16, 2011 @04:24PM |
Ask Slashdot: Statistical Analysis Packages For Libraries? |
| Tuesday October 04, 2011 @10:46AM |
For Academic Publishing, Princeton Goes Open Access By Default |
| Thursday September 29, 2011 @08:34AM |
Science and Religion Can and Do Mix, Mostly |
| Tuesday September 27, 2011 @10:00AM |
Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? |
| Monday August 08, 2011 @08:26PM |
Law School Amplifies Critics Through SLAPP Suit |
| Thursday July 14, 2011 @01:58PM |
NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center |
| Sunday June 26, 2011 @05:04PM |
Black Market Database Access To Scholarly Journals |
| Monday June 20, 2011 @06:24PM |
Aussie Climate Scientists Receiving Death Threats |
| Wednesday May 18, 2011 @10:48PM |
Academic Publishers Ask The Impossible In GSU Copyright Suit |
| Saturday May 14, 2011 @04:29PM |
Western Washington Univ. Considers Cutting Computer Science |
| Saturday April 30, 2011 @10:45PM |
Forging a Head: The Upside of Scientific Hoaxes |
| Tuesday April 26, 2011 @05:57PM |
Semengate Strikes the American College of Surgeons |
| Tuesday April 12, 2011 @04:35PM |
Bringing Open Source To Biomedicine |
| Tuesday April 12, 2011 @01:27PM |
Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered? |
| Sunday April 10, 2011 @09:20PM |
Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? |
| Sunday April 10, 2011 @10:21AM |
Free Software Helps Disabled Use Mouse |
| Wednesday April 06, 2011 @12:10AM |
Which Grad Students Are the Most Miserable? |
| Thursday March 31, 2011 @02:56PM |
Wikipedia Wants More Contributions From Academics |
| Friday March 25, 2011 @08:16PM |
CMU Eliminates Object Oriented Programming For Freshman |
| Sunday March 20, 2011 @12:49PM |
Citation Map Shows Top Science Cities |
| Saturday March 12, 2011 @02:26PM |
CS Profs Debate Role of Math In CS Education |
| Monday December 27, 2010 @01:23PM |
UK Banks Attempt To Censor Academic Publication |
| Friday December 17, 2010 @05:08AM |
String Theory Tested, Fails Black Hole Predictions |
| Monday November 29, 2010 @01:59PM |
University of Maryland Starts Competitive Eating Team |
| Thursday November 18, 2010 @02:55PM |
200 Students Admit Cheating After Professor's Online Rant |
| Tuesday November 16, 2010 @06:32PM |
Professor Has Camera Surgically Implanted In the Back of His Head |
| Saturday November 13, 2010 @07:44PM |
Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU |
| Tuesday November 09, 2010 @05:11PM |
Introducing Students To the World of Open Source |
| Friday November 05, 2010 @06:25PM |
College Application Inflation — Marketing Meets Admissions |
| Thursday November 04, 2010 @07:55PM |
Zeus Attackers Turned the Tables On Researchers |
| Wednesday October 27, 2010 @03:05PM |
Software Finds Plagiarism In Research |
| Tuesday October 26, 2010 @02:47AM |
Colleges May Start Forcing Switch To eTextbooks |
| Saturday October 23, 2010 @12:48PM |
Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning |
| Thursday October 21, 2010 @03:31PM |
Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls |
| Tuesday October 19, 2010 @03:32PM |
What If We Ran Universities Like Wikipedia? |
| Saturday September 25, 2010 @10:27PM |
You Are Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School |
| Wednesday September 22, 2010 @12:41AM |
Australian Schools Go iPad-Crazy |
| Thursday September 16, 2010 @12:30AM |
Public Clearinghouse Proposed For Evoting Failures |
| Thursday September 16, 2010 @12:29AM |
Study Shows Testosterone is Bad For High-Stakes Decisions |
| Friday September 10, 2010 @11:49PM |
University Offers Class In Zombie Studies |
| Thursday September 02, 2010 @10:23PM |
Harvard Ditching Final Exams? |
| Saturday August 28, 2010 @09:19AM |
Duke Research Experiment Disrupts Internet Traffic |
| Monday August 23, 2010 @08:57PM |
Los Angeles Unveils $578 Million Public School |
| Tuesday August 17, 2010 @12:30AM |
Microsoft's Adaptive Touchscreen Keyboard |
| Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:37PM |
Stanford, U.C. Berkeley Offer Students Genetic Testing |
| Tuesday July 06, 2010 @08:03AM |
Finding a Research Mentor? |
| Friday July 02, 2010 @04:35PM |
Grigory Perelman Turns Down $1M Millennium Prize |
| Thursday July 01, 2010 @01:26PM |
Plagiarism Inc. |
| Thursday June 24, 2010 @05:28PM |
Best Way To Publish an "Indie" Research Paper? |
| Thursday June 17, 2010 @01:55PM |
DePaul University To Offer Degree In Predictive Analysis |
| Tuesday June 15, 2010 @01:25PM |
E-Reserves Under Fire From Publishers |
| Thursday June 10, 2010 @12:12AM |
Univ. of California Faculty May Boycott Nature Publisher |
| Friday June 04, 2010 @08:56PM |
What Does Your Ph.D. Look Like In Dance Form? |
| Wednesday May 19, 2010 @01:05PM |
UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA |
| Saturday May 15, 2010 @11:45AM |
Avatars Used For Australian Online Sex Appeal Study |
| Tuesday May 04, 2010 @10:40PM |
"Lost" and the Emergence of Hypertext Storytelling |
| Thursday April 29, 2010 @02:02PM |
Students Flock To GMU For a Degree In Video Game Design |
| Wednesday April 28, 2010 @02:51PM |
US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction |
| Wednesday April 21, 2010 @05:56PM |
UK University Researchers Must Make Data Available |
| Wednesday April 21, 2010 @02:15AM |
Why Computer Science Students Cheat |
| Wednesday April 21, 2010 @01:39AM |
China's Research Ambitions Hurt By Faked Results |
| Wednesday March 31, 2010 @04:29PM |
Yale Delays Move To Gmail |
| Friday March 12, 2010 @08:07PM |
University of Wyoming Studies Video Games |
| Friday February 12, 2010 @01:14AM |
How Easy Is It To Cheat In CS? |
