If we want to maximize creativity, tying cash to creative output is a bad idea. tanakawho/Flickr By Dan Hunter, Swinburne University of Technology Imagine you were asked to write a law that…

Let 'er rip! Simon James, CC BY-SA By Siobhan Weare, Lancaster University Every year thousands of new laws are introduced. Some of these are well publicized and debated, such as the recent changes to…

Do doctors make too much money? It depends on who you ask. The public perception is that doctors now overcharge for services to account for the cost of government paperwork while government routinely…

Management students entering my thesis prep course without having been involved in research before, or taken a probability course, reliably make these mistakes. Many students go on to do empirical…

Though the U.S. government is touting claims that it has created an economic engine better than at any time in the 20th century, the reality is much different and a large part of the reason why…

What rising sea level? Peter, CC BY-SA By Mark Maslin,University College London There are many complex reasons why people decide not to accept the science of climate change. The doubters range from…

Everyone needs to understand the basics of science to participate fully in the democratic process. shutterstock. By Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University. Science isn’t important only to scientists or…

In all of the money and outreach trying to convince more Americans to become scientists, what is most often left out is we train lots of scientists that we then force to return home, where they…

A longitudinal study has found that while higher income children eat worse at school, low-income kids eat healthier than at home. While the political controversy rages over federal efforts to…

Reductions in government healthcare spending in the European Union (EU) increase maternal mortality rates, suggests a new paper in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG…