Science

A new study has concluded that in New Jersey’s largest city, crime was concentrated significantly around corner stores compared with other commercial venues. The study’s findings have implications for crime prevention, urban planning, and community safety policies.

Every January, offices quietly reset. New planners appear on desks. Fresh notebooks open in meetings. To-do lists look neater, ambitions clearer. There is a shared sense that this year, things will be different.

As Nairobi’s skyline climbs ever higher, life for those living on the city’s edges is being transformed—and not always for the better.

Can an organization ever be truly meritocratic? That’s a question Emilio J. Castilla, the NTU Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explores in his new book, “The Meritocracy Paradox: Where Talent Management Strategies Go Wrong and…

Economics could do with less mathematics and more story, says Canada’s most-cited economist.

Waiting in an airport for a connecting flight is often tedious. A new study by MIT researchers shows it’s bad for business, too.

In communities around the Amazon Rainforest, there’s a pervasive belief that large landowners use their money to influence local politics to benefit their operations.

From volcanic landscapes to world-class observatories, a journey through the Canary Islands reveals a night sky unlike anything I’d seen before.

Another view from Perseverance shows how windswept Mars’ landscape truly is.

Baby boomers could be the secret ingredient for corporate sustainability, according to a new Murdoch University study.