Creativity has always been central to science, but Professors Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher believe it’s not being systematically taught or valued in today’s research ecosystems. In pursuit of a ...

I'm working on a new course on The Science of Creativity and so I've decided to feature some of the research and ideas from the course here at the blog. We all have the potential to be creative. We ...

Creativity is essential in every step of the scientific process, asserts a team of Rutgers researchers. To illustrate their point, they have put together a short film showing how biologists, chemists, ...

Profession and Wallerstein offer opposing visions of how societies organize knowledge and creativity—one mechanized and hierarchical, the other hopeful that systems can still nurture human curiosity.

They found that creative activities, like dance classes – the tango proved particularly effective – or art classes or music ...

Julie Heng ’24 is a Crimson Editorial editor. Her column runs on alternate Tuesdays. Last month, in an open letter to his science adviser and nominee for a new cabinet-level science policy position, ...

Science says these could be signs that you're actually a genius. Who knew your hatred for overcrowded and loud coffee shops ...

Why do new ideas and solutions surface to awareness when we’re away from the studio and instead gardening or fixing a fence or stacking wood or walking or running? There's more to explaining the dance ...

Study finds lower impact from widely spread-out teams, but is it cause or effect? This kinda makes sense to me. When you’re working away on well defined, business as usual improvements a remote team ...