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Immigration reform seen as key to U.S. AI leadership
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Matt Levin
Sep 15, 2023
If the U.S. fails to attract and retain foreign AI talent, the biggest winner could be Canada.
Defense Department awards Howard University first-of-its-kind research contract
Jan 24, 2023
HBCUs like Howard often lost out on research grants due to systematic underfunding. Now there’s a push to fund more research at HBCUs.
The free market is failing us on antibiotics
Dec 22, 2022
The free market is pretty simple: There’s supply, there’s demand, they meet somewhere in the middle. If there’s a need, there’s a product. But sometimes, that system breaks down, as it has in the market for antibiotics.
As the U.S. becomes more politically polarized, so does corporate leadership, paper says
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Matt Levin
Jun 28, 2022
Research indicates executives in a given company are now more likely to all be of the same party, and that has consequences.
As research labs reopen, scientists grapple with social distancing's effects
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Erika Beras
Jul 27, 2020
In March, many lab experiments ground to a halt. Now, researchers are figuring out how to start again.
What can past pandemics teach economists about COVID-19?
Apr 22, 2020
Economists are adapting models and using social media to try to capture emerging trends in real time.
Technological advancement got us into this climate mess. Can it get us out?
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Molly Wood
Oct 19, 2018
Short answer? Probably not.
For public good, not for profit.
Technological advancement got us into this climate mess. Can it get us out?
by
Molly Wood
Oct 19, 2018
Short answer? Probably not.
How Nobel Prize winner Paul Romer redefined economics
Oct 8, 2018
Economists comment on what makes Romer’s views unique.
One problem with fake news? It really, really works
by
Molly Wood
Aug 27, 2018
MIT research finds false stories often travel further and faster than real ones.