Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees(nature.com)

215 points by rntn 1 year ago | 393 comments

Ancient DNA Shows Stone Age Europeans Voyaged by Sea to Africa(nature.com)

106 points by gmays 1 year ago | 43 comments

Out of Africa: celebrating 100 years of human-origins research(nature.com)

110 points by sohkamyung 1 year ago | 80 comments

Syphilis microbe's family has plagued humans for millennia(nature.com)

44 points by Hooke 2 years ago | 23 comments

More than 40% of postdocs leave academia, study reveals(nature.com)

188 points by ipster_io 1 year ago | 204 comments

Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time(nature.com)

37 points by helsinkiandrew 2 years ago | 27 comments

California bans child marriage, a practice still legal in 32 US states(bbc.com)

57 points by dabinat 25 days ago | 64 comments

BBC News article reporting that California has banned child marriage, which remains legal in 32 US states.

UN report finds UN reports are not widely read(reuters.com)

326 points by anjneymidha 1 year ago | 122 comments

Reuters article on a United Nations report finding that the UN's own reports are not widely read.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

AI tools are spotting errors in research papers(nature.com)

555 points by kgwgk 1 year ago | 200 comments

Nature news article on a growing movement using AI and large language models to detect errors in research papers, sparked by a flawed black plastic utensils study.

TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale(afterbabel.com)

474 points by cwwc 1 year ago | 471 comments

An After Babel Substack essay arguing that TikTok causes widespread harm to children and teens.

Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out(gavi.org)

904 points by slu 1 year ago | 333 comments

Gavi VaccinesWork article reporting a Danish nationwide study showing HPV types 16 and 18 nearly eliminated after the vaccine roll-out.