As the world grapples with the new face of remote work in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic researchers are only now catching up to the implications of virtual communication on tasks that in the past ...

What motivated you to launch the Night Science podcast? Yanai: There's some kind of stigma, bias, or cultural norms against discussing this creative side of the research process. I think it's because ...

Over the past 50 years, astronomers have made dozens of major discoveries that help explain the nature and origins of the universe. They’ve measured the cosmic microwave background, or leftover ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the psychology of leadership, tech and entrepreneurship. The science of creativity also provides a much-needed ...

One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an ...

A new neuroimaging study reveals how the brain gets to the creative flow state. Effortless, enjoyable productivity is a state of consciousness prized and sought after by people in business, the arts, ...

As a result of the pandemic, workers around the world have become accustomed to meeting colleagues online. To find out if this switch from face-to-face meetings came at a cost to creativity, a team ...

We tend to consider creativity in terms of thinking, such as coming up with ideas and solving problems. And indeed, those thinking processes are key to creating something new, original, and effective ...