Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on what’s changed –...
Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University
Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated...
What’s behind the magic of live music?
Mariusz Kozak, Columbia University
For months, fans were relegated to watching their favorite singers and musicians over Zoom or...
How to nurture creativity in your kids
James C. Kaufman, University of Connecticut
Parents who want their kids to be more creative may be tempted to...
How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data on deaths and...
Sumedha Gupta, IUPUI
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More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least...
People use mental shortcuts to make difficult decisions – even highly trained doctors delivering...
Manasvini Singh, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Being a physician is a difficult job. They must make complex, high-stakes decisions...
How food became the perfect beachhead for gentrification
Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, San Diego State University
Everybody, it seems, welcomes the arrival of new restaurants, cafés, food trucks and...
How does smoking marijuana affect academic performance? Two researchers explain how it can alter...
Jason R. Kilmer, University of Washington and Christine M. Lee, University of Washington
In a trend that coincided with...
Computer Space launched the video game industry 50 years ago – here’s the real...
Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California, Santa Cruz
Before Pong there was Computer Space, the first commercial video game. The...
