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Nicola Armaroli and Gianfranco Pacchioni say that we must acknowledge the downsides of open-access publishing to make sure it has a sustainable future A new hope? Has open-access publishing lived up ...

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on why the slow and steady approach can leave issues unresolved. When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders ...

The president of a for-profit Central Florida nursing school pleaded last month with members of a state board for leniency after graduates of his program performed poorly on the national nurse ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

PCWorld reviews the Asus ROG GR20 Edition 20, a unique open-air desktop case celebrating ROG’s 20th anniversary with vertical column design for ATX components. The case features practical innovations ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

IBM and Red Hat are investing $5 billion into a new cybersecurity push to address vulnerabilities in open-source software. CEO Arvind Krishna said the launch of Anthropic's Mythos was the "critical ...

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process ...

Four Massachusetts hospitals and universities are partnering to launch nursing apprenticeships. The program is funded by $240,000 in grants from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services. They ...