Ten years ago, after over two decades of research on this topic, Carol Dweck – the Stanford University developer of “mindset theory” – concluded, “what students believe about their brains – whether...

Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. corn belt is drawing to a close. As they plant, farmers are participating in what is likely to be one of the largest deployments of insecticides...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order June 20 purporting to end immigrant family separations at U.S. border with Mexico. Four days later, the departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services announced a plan to reunite approximately 2,000 children who were taken from their parents at the border between April and the time...

Silicon Valley technology firms have had serious problems with demographic diversity, including accusations of hostile climates toward women and minority employees. A new analysis of company-level employment data I helped conduct finds, however, that some firms seem to have figured out how to...

Updated blood pressure guidelines from the American Heart Association mean that many more Americans, notably older people, are now...

Working in West Antarctica is profoundly humbling. We scientists work from tiny field camps incongruously airdropped onto a vast plain of kilometers-thick glacial ice extending from horizon to horizon. It is initially difficult...

When Attorney General Jeff Sessions on June 11 overruled the decision in a controversial immigration case called Matter of A-B-, he made it harder for women escaping sexual and physical abuse to qualify for asylum in the United States.

Can the U.S. attorney general unilaterally overturn a court case?

Yes, because, as I teach my surprised law...

On June 21, I testified before Education Secretary Betsy Devos’s school safety commission on the impact that violence in entertainment media has on violence in society.

I’m a psychologist who has studied violent media for 15...

A new approach to fighting poverty and solving some of society’s other big problems is emerging at a time when the federal government and states are cutting back on...

From the editors: Universities teach and research, but what impact do they – and should they – have on their local communities?

We asked the leaders of Rutgers University - Newark and West Virginia University to explain their take on this issue given the considerable...