innovation

SummaryThe Department of Energy (DOE) will soon wipe away a legacy of Steven Chu, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist who served as secretary of energy from 2009 to 2013 under former President Barack Obama. According to the department's…

Birds in the binIt is by now well accepted that humans are not the only animal to have complex culture, and we have also found that ecological novelty can lead to cultural innovation. Klump et al. documented the emergence of an evolving set…

Government-funded research, which is fueled by tax revenue, drives innovation, but higher rates of taxation can suppress invention. Akcigit et al. show that in the United States from 1940 to 2000, personal and corporate income taxes limited…