Since the publication of my book, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, I've given several interviews, and during each one I've been asked to elaborate on a term I used in ...

The article details several NASA-backed citizen science initiatives designed to engage the public in authentic scientific research across various astronomical and Earth science domains. One category ...

After several years of school on Zoom, watching YouTube how-to videos about anything and everything, and “talking” via Snapchat, it’s tempting to think that students are already equipped for our ...

Business investment in data science is one of the most important advances of the past decade. While some may argue data science has already worked its way into every industry, there are still areas ...

As high school student in Los Angeles, Ann Wai-Yee Kwong, who is visually impaired, remembers what it was like when her classmates did a science project. They mixed chemicals and watched them change ...

Since the days of Plato, thinkers have wrestled with what makes for a just society, and whether the responsibility for justice rests with the individual or with government. Over the centuries, those ...

A week after Donald Trump’s election, a thirty-year-old cognitive scientist named Maya Shankar purchased a plane ticket to Flint, Michigan. Shankar held one of the more unorthodox jobs in the Obama ...

USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and University of Southern California provide funding as members of The Conversation US. How often do you, outside the requirements of an assignment, ...

At the sight of anything that reminds me of her, I say hello, or want to give it a high five. Sometimes I say a prayer that we’ll talk again. Other times I queue up Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now”: ...

When I was a child, I often found it difficult to fall asleep as thoughts or fears flooded my mind in the darkness. My solace became a cassette tape my mom gave me from our Christian Science church ...

Science fiction allows artists to speculate about the future through imaginative and technical concepts. But so often the prevailing vision of that future in popular culture tends toward the dystopian ...