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Why Creativity in Science Matters and Three Ways to Achieve It

Why Creativity in Science Matters and Three Ways to Achieve It

Creativity is critical to the future of work. The Future of Jobs Report 2023 ranked analytical thinking and creative thinking as the first and second most important skills that workers will need to have in the future. 

Girls Have Overtaken Boys in Science Participation. In Workplaces, It's a Completely Different Story

Girls Have Overtaken Boys in Science Participation. In Workplaces, It's a Completely Different Story

Young women get better grades in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, but progress on jobs for women in these industries has been painfully slow.

Quick Grants from Tech Billionaires Aim to Speed Up Science Research. But Not All Scientists Approve

Quick Grants from Tech Billionaires Aim to Speed Up Science Research. But Not All Scientists Approve

Fast Grants is one of many science improvement projects Silicon Valley billionaires launched or backed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Study Finds a Key Way to Build Trust in Science - And It's Not Education

Study Finds a Key Way to Build Trust in Science - And It's Not Education

Trust in the truth is a major talking point these days.

How Do Plants with Seedless Fruit Reproduce?

How Do Plants with Seedless Fruit Reproduce?

Plants are capable of producing seedless fruit through a process called parthenocarpy, and humans have long leveraged it in agriculture.

Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence

Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence

Congress weighs far-reaching disclosure rules for academics doing military research

Congress weighs far-reaching disclosure rules for academics doing military research

House defense bill would vastly expand information that must be disclosed and posted online.

To Save Society from Digital Tech, Enable Scrutiny of How Policies Are Implemented

To Save Society from Digital Tech, Enable Scrutiny of How Policies Are Implemented

Well-designed policies alone cannot prevent social harm from new technologies. Instead, watchdogs must have tools to scrutinize how such policies are implemented, paving the road for digital accountability.

European Commission Proposes Loosening Rules for Gene-edited Plants

European Commission Proposes Loosening Rules for Gene-edited Plants

Bid to boost agricultural innovation faces skeptics in the European Parliament.

Science Activism Is Surging, Marking A Culture Shift Among Scientists

Science Activism Is Surging, Marking A Culture Shift Among Scientists

More scientists seem empowered to advocate for a wide range of policy issues.

'Industry Scientists Are Often Misunderstood: Here’s Why I Chose This Path'

'Industry Scientists Are Often Misunderstood: Here’s Why I Chose This Path'

"I don’t think industry would be a good fit for me,” the student said, “I’m not money-motivated.” As an industry scientist myself, I struggled to hide my surprise.

China's Use of Formal Science and Technology Agreements As a Tool of Diplomacy

China's Use of Formal Science and Technology Agreements As a Tool of Diplomacy

China's government uses a variety of diplomatic tools to pursue its foreign policy aims including negotiating and signing formal bilateral science and technology.

What Is The Russian Navy Doing With All These Military Dolphins? Here's The Science

What Is The Russian Navy Doing With All These Military Dolphins? Here's The Science

Dolphins might not be the first animal you think of when it comes to putting together a battle-hardened team of warriors, but the Russian military is reportedly recruiting bottlenose dolphins to defend the Sevastopol naval base in the Black Sea.

Why Our Hair Turns Gray-And How Scientists Could Reverse the Process for Good

Why Our Hair Turns Gray-And How Scientists Could Reverse the Process for Good

For starters, avoid tearing your hair out when frustration strikes, because it might just come in gray.

No, GPT-4 Cannot Get a Computer Science Degree at MIT

No, GPT-4 Cannot Get a Computer Science Degree at MIT

Also: OpenAI to open a new office in London, and why the FTC has its eye on the generative AI market

Preserving Citizens' Economic Well-being: Evaluating Risks and Policy Solutions for Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Biodiversity Loss Financial-related Threats

Preserving Citizens' Economic Well-being: Evaluating Risks and Policy Solutions for Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Biodiversity Loss Financial-related Threats

By researching and anticipating financial risks, a team of few scientists assesses the financial challenges posed by climate change, digitalization and biodiversity loss. Today, we spoke with them to learn more about their research.

New Research Explores How 'green Infrastructure' Policy is Applied in Sweden

New Research Explores How 'green Infrastructure' Policy is Applied in Sweden

Researchers have explored the creation and implications of Sweden's 'green infrastructure' policy, an approach identified by the European Commission as a potential strategy to protect biodiversity and create healthy, resilient ecosystems.

Science History: Yue Xiong's Great Leap

Science History: Yue Xiong's Great Leap

Yue Xiong is a microbiologist who emigrated to the United States from China to complete his doctorate in 1989. He is the chief scientific officer of pharmaceutical company Cullgen and was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This article follows Yue Xiong’s quest for education and is based on an interview from the Science History Institute’s oral history archive conducted in 2000 by historian William Van Benschoten.

African Academy of Sciences Elects First Woman President

African Academy of Sciences Elects First Woman President

South Africa’s Lise Korsten to lead unsettled continental science body. The African Academy of Sciences has elected a new governing council headed by a woman—the first in the organisation’s 37-year history.

Atoms Vs Apples: How Quantum Effects Challenge Gravity's Rules - Advanced Science News

Atoms Vs Apples: How Quantum Effects Challenge Gravity's Rules - Advanced Science News

New research reveals that quantum effects defy the universality of free fall, providing a potential experimental pathway to test quantum gravity.

Scientific Communication Failures Linked to Faster-Rising Seas

Scientific Communication Failures Linked to Faster-Rising Seas

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists …

United States National Science Foundation: Making the Most of the "Ethical and Societal Considerations" in the CHIPS and Science Act

United States National Science Foundation: Making the Most of the "Ethical and Societal Considerations" in the CHIPS and Science Act

The National Science Foundation has a historic opportunity to center societal considerations in scientific research and technology creation.