Cutting NSF Is Like Liquidating Your Finest Investment
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using […]
Patients Can Benefit When Psychologists Open Up About Their Own Mental Illnesses
the authors’ research finds that, far from being immune to the conditions they treat in others, psychologists grapple with mental health difficulties or illnesses just as much as their patients do.
Explaining Why Men Kill Women Is a Harder Question Than Many Think
The author warns that policies intended to prevent intimate partner femicide should not become narrowly focused around gendered factors such as men’s attitudes to women and toxic masculinity.
Weighing the Benefits from New Data-Sharing Rules from the National Institutes of Health
Starting on Jan. 25, 2023, many of the 2,500 institutions and 300,000 researchers that the U.S. National Institutes of Health supports will need to provide a formal, detailed plan for publicly sharing the data generated by their research.
Collateral Damage: Russia’s War Damages its Academic Ties with West
Arik Burakovsky, an expert on relations between the U.S. and Russia, shines light on the future of cooperation between Russia and the West in the realm of higher education.
Understanding the ‘Undercover Autism’ of Many Women and Girls
[Ed. – April 2, 2022 is World Autism Awareness Day.] Being autistic, but not diagnosed, can lead to a lifetime of struggles […]
What Can Game Theory Tell Us About Ukraine War Negotiations?
Game theory is the formal study of strategic choices between two sides. It’s useful to decision makers because it can illustrate the range of options open to combatants within a given crisis, and also map the likely “wins and losses” strategically decided upon by the parties involved. The challenge is applying a hypothetical spectrum to the range of passive and aggressive options, and their consequences in Ukraine today.
Connecting Social Science And Policy: A View from Nigeria
Good social science research has ultimate social relevance. In Nigeria, however, the authors’ study shows that research evidence and policies are disconnected.
Failures of Imagination: Four Experts on Science’s COVID Response So Far
The World Health Organization declared COVID a pandemic on March 11 2020. In the two years since, countries have diverged on their containment strategies, introducing many different ways of mitigating the virus, to varying effect. Here, four health experts look at what has worked well, what mistakes scientists and policymakers made, and what needs to be done to protect human health from here on.
