
Watch Paint Dry
Watching paint dry is boring at a macroscopic level, but it’s actually really interesting at a microscopic level!

Watching paint dry is boring at a macroscopic level, but it’s actually really interesting at a microscopic level!

You can learn a lot from null results. Don’t ignore them, they could be your most valuable discovery.

Three questions to address rigour and reproducibility in your grant proposal.

Skype a Scientist has a database of thousands of scientists and helps them connect with classrooms, families, libraries, scout troops, and more all over the globe!

Take the Harvard implicit bias test here. Everyone has implicit biases – thoughts and feelings outside your conscious awareness and control which influence your decisions. Once you’re aware of them, you can start taking steps to address them.

Humans will use what you give them the way they want to use it, even if that’s not how you intended. This interesting short talk has lessons for scientists…

An artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot can write such convincing fake research-paper abstracts that scientists are often unable to spot them.
