Boldness, creativity and an aptitude for taking risks are all characteristics of a successful innovator. They also apply to UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) assistant professor ...

The COVID-19 pandemic seems to take every public problem—vast social inequality, political polarization, the spread of conspiracy theories—and magnify it. Among these problems is the public’s growing ...

Both science and common sense tell us we should avoid discussing topics at work that incite emotion and make us irrational. Hundreds of behavioral science studies show people rarely understand the ...

When I was a kid, I’d sometimes spend the day with my dad in his lab, at the National Institutes of Health. For a few hours I’d read, while eating vending-machine crackers and drinking Diet Coke. I’d ...

Mr. Patel is a staff editor in Opinion who covers science. America is at risk of losing a generation of scientists. Amid sweeping cuts to federal research funding by the Trump administration, job ...

Burnout at work has been written about from nearly every angle, so why write another article about it? Because the root of the problem keeps evolving. Research consistently shows that companies stuck ...

Sociologists explain the data behind the gender gap in STEM careers. National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins—an outspoken Christian—has also spoken out about science’s glaring need to ...

In a major blow to climate change science, NASA is officially not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space exploration. During a Fox Business news segment, ...