World War II seems like a pretty obvious example of successful industrial policy, at least in the sense of government directing science research toward specific goals. This from the new working paper ...

Coinciding with the annual observance of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Dr. Alvin Tran and Krupa Ann Mathew ’25 MPH reflected on what they hope will be the impact of their research on ...

The Australian Black Summer bushfires caused extraordinary losses of Australian biodiversity. Comparable losses can be avoided in future fire events with enhanced funding, planning and management, a ...

This essay explores which lessons, if any, U.S. adults are taking away from the coronavirus outbreak. We surveyed 10,211 U.S. adults from July 13 to 19, 2020. All respondents were first asked whether ...

This essay is part of a First Opinion series on the future of the National Institutes of Health and American science. In 1984, during my intern year, I admitted the first of what would become ...

Innovations are required to help improve access to cancer care, including participation in clinical research. The development of global clinical research, integrating low- and middle-income countries, ...

Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) act as watersheds to support primary care. Additional support is needed to bolster the efforts of PBRNs because of diminished capacity from the COVID-19 ...

Content marketing and advertising often look the same, but there is one key difference: Advertisers pay to find eyeballs, whereas content marketers have audiences appear at their door. I've noticed ...

Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s choice of pinch hitter, a football coach’s decision to ...

As standards for college applicants increase in difficulty, many are focusing more on their high school involvements so that they can put forward a solid narrative and eventually earn acceptance at ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics to guide a baseball manager’s ...