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 ...

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”?

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 ...

We recently published a bit of a rant about many Wikipedia science entries leaving a lot to be desired. In response, we were informed that an effort to improve that situation was already brewing. In ...

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 ...

I would say that I always take everything in Wikipedia with a grain of salt, and only use it for fact checking or answering a quick question at the dinner table. For scientific research, Wikipedia ...

Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years. By Maya Salam You’re reading In Her Words, where women rule the headlines.

Can public health experts tell that an infectious disease outbreak is imminent simply by looking at what people are searching for on Wikipedia? Yes, at least in some cases. Researchers from Los Alamos ...

Wikipedia is the most important Encyclopedia since Denis Diderot's famous first one. It's a great resource for interesting stories, basic facts on geography or history, and TV show capsules. But for ...

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 ...

Wikipedia currently contains over 7.1 million entries in English alone. Image: Popular Science composite by Tag Hartman-Simkins. Source: HBO; Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images; Max ...