Erin West and Paul Raffile went to Nigeria to track down a scammer. They found much more than just his identity.

In remaking USAID’s Feed the Future Innovation Labs, Trump is abandoning an agricultural research effort built to benefit the world.

A new J-PAL Policy Insight reviewing 30 studies across low- and middle-income countries finds that mobile phones can improve student learning, teacher performance, and parental engagement, but only wh...

Access to sought-after knowledge can make a person more central in their networks. In Malawian schools, students with exclusive access to online information became social hubs, as others connected to them for indirect access. Policies that target initially well-connected people may underperform, as networks change endogenously.

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

Who's a real cowboy? The question has been central to American culture (popular and otherwise) for almost as long as it's existed, filtered through novels and songs and (of course) endless Westerns, w...

Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. You just need one URL parameter.

Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs

The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

Survey-based indicators of wellbeing are often available for only large administrative units, like provinces. The authors use satellite-based machine learning models trained on such coarse data to mak...