Acid rain is a popular term referring to the deposition of wet poo and cats. No, not really. But that’s what people looking at Wikipedia’s article on acid rain could have read on December 1, 2011. An ...

The time had come to choose a major at Caltech, and Alice Michel had a notion that intrigued her. But when she looked it up on Wikipedia, what she got was a whole lot of gobbledygook. It was, she ...

Wikipedia: The settler of dinnertime disputes and the savior of those who cheat on trivia night. Quick, what country has the Nile’s headwaters? What year did Gershwin write “Rhapsody in Blue”?

LW: The modus operandi of Lost Women of Science is to make discovering women in science exciting and accessible for all levels - participants will be carefully guided through all stages of the event ...

Back in December, online encyclopedia – written and edited collaboratively by anyone – encountered a nice wollop of Wiki-controversy. You might recall it was jumpstarted by former journalist John ...

Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. It was 2004, when the site was just three years old, and its information about the government of his home nation of Trinidad and Tobago was a ...

Between 7 and 11% of prominent chemists, both living and dead, are women. That’s according to the worldview represented on Wikipedia, anyway. Compared with employment and degree statistics for ...