"Courageous Optimism" is my answer to Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman's challenge when he asked me, "What allows a police officer to run into gunfire when everyone else is running away?" ...

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Schmidt Sciences has announced its AI2050 Fellows for 2025. This year’s cohort consists of 28 recipients, including 7 senior ...

My work on this issue with colleagues Amanda Weinstein and Emily Wornell measured quality of life down to the county level for the first time. Our research demonstrated that quality of life explains ...

Narrow monopolies can be the best way to accelerate specific technologies, but AI is not like other technologies. It's an all-encompassing transformation that touches every aspect of human activity.

Economists have developed three competing explanations, or theories, to explain differences in economic growth between ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

SHANGHAI, Oct. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 24 the Fudan University School of Management (Fudan SoM) marked a milestone in its 40th Anniversary Celebration Week with the launch of the 2025 ...

Tariffs and uncertainty were already making the economy hard to read. The loss of government data during the shutdown has ...

Secure attachment develops from patterns learned in childhood. Discover its signs in adults and kids, plus treatment approaches.

New strategies may soon allow scientists to test dark energy theories within our own solar system, linking cosmic-scale physics to local observation. Science advances through a cycle of proposing ...

Every year humanity produces nearly 300 million tons of plastic. Only a fraction ever gets recycled. Most ends up in rivers, ...