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Opinion

AI Slop Coming to a Library Near You

Librarians must hold the gates against machine-generated titles.

Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, during a tour of the Broad Institute on Dec. 5, 2025.

NIH Plans $174M for Research Replicability, Reproducibility

The National Institutes of Health’s five-year R3PEATS program comes alongside a new tool that seeks to help researchers identify connected scientific publications.

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Opinion

Quanta’s Thomas Lin Trusts the Public Can Handle Complex Ideas

The founding editor built a math and science magazine that high schoolers and Nobel laureates alike read. Now, he’s turned to books.

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Before the Record: Proofs as Ritual

In publication, as in teaching, academic life is full of threshold moments.

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What One Year of ‘The Public Scholar’ Taught Me

A year of conversations with editors, agents and scholars taught me that breaking through takes practical know-how and remembering how to teach.

Cover of the book “How Dare You: An HBCU President’s Fight for Half a Billion Dollars Owed—and the State’s Actions to Avoid Payment” next to a headshot of the author Glenda Baskin Glover, a Black woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a blue suit and red lipstick.

The Fight for Fair Funding at One Historically Black Land-Grant University

A new book from the former president of Tennessee State University reveals her battle to regain $544 million in documented underfunding.