How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

A recent study and accompanying news story in the preeminent journal Nature provocatively concludes that disruptive innovation in science has dramatically and mysteriously declined 90% since 1945. The ...

The Data Science & AI Initiative at LBS provides independent evidence, practical playbooks, and responsible adoption ...

Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...

From translating thoughts into words to allowing paralyzed people to walk, the field of neurotechnology has been quietly ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...

In this special guest feature, Neera Talbert of Revolution Analytics discusses the role of open source software in making data science the rising field it is today. Neera Talbert is Vice President, ...

In recent years, social psychology and science overall have been undergoing a "credibility revolution" with a grassroots "open science" movement aiming to promote ...

Pauses in funding, communication freezes, reductions in funds to research institutions and the dismissal of scientists at federal agencies threaten American science. While some may support such ...