Twenty-five years ago, Ted Chiang wrote a prescient science fiction short that began: “It has been 25 years since a report of original research was last submitted to our editors for publication, makin...

A new University of Michigan study finds that women are about 28% less likely than men to promote their scientific papers on X (formerly Twitter)—a seemingly minor digital decision that could have big...

We study agency frictions in the US Congress. We examine the long-standing hypothesis that political elites engage in conflict because they fail to internalize the associated costs. We compare the vot...

This Viewpoint explores how funding has changed at the National Institutes of Health over time and discusses how continued investment is necessary to maintain the current level of biomedical research.

I used AI in my plasma physics research and it didn’t go the way I expected.

tested the impact of providing cash incentives to complete peer review assignments at Critical Care Medicine. Design: Quasi-randomized, blinded, interventional study with an alternating treatment d...

Abstract. Scientists’ choices of what research topics to pursue are highly consequential and have been the subject of many studies. However, these studies are dispersed across several fields and liter...

The file drawer problem—often operationalized in terms of statistically significant results being published and statistically insignificant not bei...

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

A prisoner and guard in the Stanford Prison Experiment. | PrisonExp.org Philip G. Zimbardo passed away in October 2024 at age 91. He enjoyed an illustrious career at Stanford University, where he t…