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Postdocs and new investigators will participate in peer review The Journal of Biological Chemistry has launched a program designed to involve scientists at early stages of their careers in peer review. The JBC Early-Career Reviewer…

Mandel cited for his visionary philanthropy and establishment of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for STEM and the Humanities at TAUCredit: Yehonatan Zur Tel Aviv University conferred its highest honor -- the degree of…

Test scores bias entry to radiation-oncology residency programs, and potentially other programs PHILADELPHIA - A standardized medical school exam, often used as a criterion for medical residency programs, may reduce the diversity of…

Study shows students in 'active learning' classrooms learn more than they think For decades, there has been evidence that active learning - classroom techniques designed to get students to participate in the learning process - produces…

Four-year study of over 500 research institutions identifies widespread gender imbalance Teams from the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute (NYSCF) and the University of Michigan have used the NYSCF Institutional Report Card…

There has been no shortage of discourse surrounding racial and ethnic disparities in the criminal justice system. In fact, the need to address these inequities have emerged as a central tenet of most viable criminal justice reform…

We decided to examine the state of prosecutor funding and caseloads after recent local debates on the issue. Prosecutors contend they need more staff to ensure due process and increased diversion options and others are concerned that…

Credit: World Scientific What do we mean by "ia ? ai"? Simply put, the 'formula' symbolizes how investment analytics (ia) is not a simplistic reapplication of artificial intelligence (ai) techniques, as the popular press likes to…

Credit: Children's National in Washington, D.C. In late August 2011, a magnitude 5.8 earthquake - the strongest east of the Mississippi since 1944 - shook Washington, D.C., with such force that it cracked the Washington Monument and…

Trainee doctors who have dyslexia, and who declare this prior to taking the clinical skills component of the licensing exam for general practice, are less likely to pass than their counterparts, new research has shown. The Clinical…