Are opinions on controversial political issues as divided as many people perceive them to be? Researchers from the Leibniz ...

Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...

Many women scientists are staying silent online—and it could be costing them professionally. A new University of Michigan ...

Ruth First, born 100 years ago, was a South African freedom fighter, journalist and scholar who worked against the racist ...

Vaccine hesitancy—a reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of the vaccine—continues to be a growing ...

Social engineering is the art of persuasion. Mostly, this is a good thing. Misused, it can have disastrous effects.

Biostatistics development in theoretical and computational methods has grown rapidly in scientific research. Together with ...

A new book offers a valuable discussion of the double bind in which many researchers and lab technicians find themselves: having to care for animals who will then be killed.

Using newly-collected data on the near-population of U.S. STEM PhD graduates since 1950, we examine who funds PhD training, how many graduates are trained in areas of strategic national importance, ...

Grounded Theory (GT), a sociological research method designed to study social phenomena, is increasingly being used to investigate the human and social aspects of software engineering (SE). However, ...

Survey of the variety of methods of sociological research, both quantitative and qualitative, focusing particularly on survey and interview, field research, content analysis, secondary analysis, ...

Professor and Department Chair of Sociology and Anthropology ... repeat the study and produce consistent results. Reproducible research is explicit about the materials and methods that were used in a ...