Society

This year’s Nobel memorial prize in economics has gone to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of the Massachusetts Institute of...

When scientists make important discoveries, both big and small, they typically publish their findings in scientific journals for others to...

The term ‘settler colonialism’ was coined by an Australian historian in the 1960s to describe the occupation of a territory...

Psychologists Jonathan St. B. T. Evans and Keith E. Stanovich have a history of publishing important research papers that resonate...

In this article, co-authors Natalie Slawinski, Bruna Brito, Jennifer Brenton, and Wendy Smith reflect on the inspiration behind their research article, "Reflections on deep...

The creation of the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment (CoARA) has led to a heated debate on the balance between...

Ten years ago,  Danah Boyd introduced the concept of ‘networked teens’ to explain how social media expanded youth connectivity. In this...

In a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter released September 9, the NSF issued a ‘request for information,’ or RFI, from those interested...

Three years ago, on the heels of a Black Lives Matter Movement energized after the horror of George Floyd’s murder,...

The large language models, or LLMs, that underlie generative AI tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have an ethical challenge in...