The divide between research and teaching in higher education is often presented as a tension—academics are expected to publish, yet also to provide high-quality teaching. This artificial separation ...

Over the past three decades, income inequality has gone up in most advanced economies and in many developing ones as well. Why? Much of the research on inequality has focused on advances in technology ...

Social purpose organizations need better ways to determine the quality of the evidence they use for making decisions. They need the strongest possible evidence they can find to plan effective action, ...

The debate over the nature of knowledge has long contended with the distinction between theoretical understanding (knowing that) and the capacity to perform tasks (knowing how). This research topic ...

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will produce a revised, expanded, and online version of On Being a Scientist: A Guide to the Responsible Conduct of ...

Across scientific disciplines, psychology being no exception, a distinction is often made between basic and applied research. Basic research, as this distinction goes, is ivory-tower research, with no ...

Across the 20 places surveyed, there is relatively high trust in the military and scientists to do what is right for the public; trust tends to be lower in the national government, news media and ...