Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has rejected claims by Elon Musk that the online encyclopedia has a left-wing bias, describing ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to fix a typo, add a citation or create a whole new article on the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, now’s your chance. In celebration of Science Literacy ...

Wikipedia is seeing a decline in human traffic as more people turn to artificial intelligence tools and social media for ...

Depending on what day you search, Wikipedia may say global warming is "a sham" or that there is "a consensus view that it is man-made." That kind of flux isn't unusual: Wikipedia pages on hot-button ...

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, the online encyclopaedia that its users write and update collaboratively, faces a crisis after a false biography raised questions about its credibility. Now, the website, which was created ...

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.