I’m Scott Carlson, a senior writer at The Chronicle covering higher ed and where it’s going. Learning to write clearly is one of the more difficult skills a person will learn through school and ...

Writing essays takes a ton of time - to say nothing of all the extra time you spend in the research phase, as well as editing each draft to make sure you didn't make any typos or accidentally paste in ...

Anna Nordseth is an ecology writer and Duke University Ph.D. candidate specializing in tropical forest ecology, conservation research, and biodiversity. Boreal forests, or taiga, are found between 50 ...

A statistical analysis found that the number of fake journal articles being churned out by “paper mills” is doubling every year and a half. By Carl Zimmer For years, whistle-blowers have warned that ...

Researchers at Apple have released an eyebrow-raising paper that throws cold water on the “reasoning” capabilities of the latest, most powerful large language models. In the paper, a team of machine ...

Right before WWDC 2025, Apple researchers published a paper called The Illusion of Thinking (PDF) that made waves. The researchers wrote that popular and buzzy AI models “face a complete accuracy ...

Those seeking a job in the federal government will now have to write an essay in support of President Donald Trump's executive orders, according to a memo from the Office of Personnel Management.

Last year, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was touting the research of a PhD student on the impact of AI on the workforce that “floored” professors in the field. Now the university is ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on artificial intelligence written by a doctoral student in its economics program. The ...

First came emails. Then a flurry of phone calls and emergency meetings. For many doctors, scientists, and other researchers, the news that their funding was being cut didn’t feel real. Over the past ...

Months after enabling Deep Research in its expensive $200 ChatGPT Pro plan, OpenAI is now rolling out the feature to all users. Anyone can now access a lightweight version of Deep Research for free.