There’s not much good to find in a destructive pandemic, but here’s one potentially positive outcome: Covid-19 may bring graduate schools to a long-needed reckoning with the dissertation requirement.

First impressions are important. Scientists need to make their work stand out among a sea of others. However, many mistakenly believe that first impressions are formed based only on titles and ...

Do you know what one of the most crucial aspects of a startup is? It’s a pitch for future investors where you explain all the benefits of your idea and the reasons it will work. A dissertation ...

The brevity of an abstract belies its importance to a manuscript. It’s what catches a reader’s attention and helps them to decide whether a paper is relevant. Yet failing to reflect the content of the ...

The artist Stephen Wiltshire specializes in panoramic cityscapes. After being commissioned, Wiltshire will view a city during a brief helicopter flight. Then, working entirely from memory, he will ...

Mathew Stiller-Reeve is a climate researcher at NORCE/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen, Norway, the leader of SciSnack.com, and a thematic editor at Geoscience Communication. Scientists ...

When giving professional presentations, the introduction should grab the audience's attention while at the same time informing them about the subject, as well as what they can expect in terms of ...