A vote to bar Larry Sanger indefinitely from the volunteer community of Wikipedia came days after he submitted a proposal on “intellectual diversity.” By Adeel Hassan A founder of Wikipedia who calls ...

Left-leaning website Wikipedia has taken the drastic action of permanently blocking one of its founders from editing pages — after he had campaigned to make it more balanced and fair. Last month, ...

Compare the best free Microsoft Excel alternatives for 2026, including features, pricing, pros and cons, and use cases for each spreadsheet tool.

Fertility specialists, biotech companies and ethicists are divided over whether progress in early gene editing would wipe out diseases or trigger a rush toward enhancement. By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn ...

Excel’s Find and Replace tool includes useful options that can speed up data editing and cleanup. This looks at lesser-known features that improve accuracy and workflow efficiency. #Excel ...

When a rogue researcher in China revealed in 2018 that he had used CRISPR to create three gene-edited children, his actions were almost universally condemned by biologists around the world. The main ...

You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps. Given the ubiquity and popularity of the PDF, it's no surprise that commercial PDF ...

OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT directly into Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, letting users build, edit, and understand spreadsheets. It can create sheets from scratch, clean messy data, fix formulas, ...

Social network X has made it more expensive to post links through its API. The change is designed to thwart spam and “vectors of misuse,” the company said. The new pricing increased costs from $0.01 ...

Instagram today implemented a small but useful change, allowing Instagram users to edit their comments for up to 15 minutes after writing the initial comment. The Meta-owned social media site has long ...

As biodiversity scientists and active volunteer Wikipedians, we applaud Nature articles calling for researchers to edit Wikipedia (see, for example, Nature 649, 1079–1080; 2026). Other platforms ...