What happens in the brain while daydreaming?

Observations in mice hint at the role of daydreams in remodeling the brain.

Catherine Caruso • harvard
Dec. 13, 2023 ~8 min

How preschoolers process possibilities

Researchers uncover pattern in developmental psychology of 3-year-olds: a struggle to weigh competing options.

Christy DeSmith • harvard
Feb. 6, 2023 ~6 min


Beware of 'Shark Week': Scientists watched 202 episodes and found them filled with junk science, misinformation and white male 'experts' named Mike

A recent study offers evidence that marine biology’s biggest stage is broken, and suggests ways to fix it.

David Shiffman, Post-Doctoral and Research Scholar in Marine Biology, Arizona State University • conversation
Nov. 30, 2022 ~10 min

'Too afraid to have kids' – how BirthStrike for Climate lost control of its political message

BirthStrike offers a salutary lesson about how core messages can be misconstrued and misunderstood when put through a high-profile media lens.

Heather McMullen, Lecturer, Centre for Public Health & Policy, Queen Mary University of London • conversation
Sept. 15, 2022 ~31 min

Teaching algorithms about colors of people

Google adopts sociologist’s skin-tone scale, which aims to promote inclusion, diversity, help fix problems in facial recognition, other technologies.

Nikki Rojas • harvard
July 5, 2022 ~6 min

Women have disrupted research on bird song, and their findings show how diversity can improve all fields of science

For decades, scientists believed that only male birds sang. Then women entered the field and showed what their predecessors had missed.

Karan Odom, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University • conversation
Sept. 11, 2020 ~8 min

The tech field failed a 25-year challenge to achieve gender equality by 2020 – culture change is key to getting on track

Diversifying leadership can change organizational cultures, which removes barriers to women in the tech industry and academia.

Francine Berman, Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • conversation
Aug. 26, 2020 ~8 min

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