Meet, if you would, Miss Henrietta Atkins, teacher of evolutionary science to generations of local schoolchildren in Hammondsport, N.Y., perhaps the most enduring character Andrea Barrett has ever ...

This series of articles is based on a presentation at the 2021 SABR Virtual Analytics Conference on March 11-14. You can watch the presentation, listen to it, view the slides, and see all the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is set to close for around seven months for significant renovations. “On Monday, August 4, we are going to start replacing our ...

University of California, Berkeley, professor David Card was awarded one half of the 2021 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his empirical contributions to labor economics," while ...

Shift Happens is my favorite bumper sticker. I love the genuineness of natural experiments, when shifts in policy, practice or environment stimulate changes. As a scientist, I’m supposed to value the ...

A natural experiment is an empirical study in which individuals (or clusters of individuals) are exposed to the experimental and control conditions that are determined by nature or by other factors ...

Cleo McVicker made soap in Cincinnati. Then came the Great Depression. By 1933, his company reeling, McVicker pitched the Kroger grocery store chain on a new product: a cleanser designed specifically ...

Regarding David Henderson’s op-ed “ ‘Natural Experiments’ Lead to an Economics Nobel” (Oct. 12): Natural experiments require circumstances in which political events, geopolitical boundaries and so ...

Abu Dhabi's Natural History Museum officially opens its doors on November 22, 2025, becoming the largest in the Middle East. The institution spans 13.8 billion years of history, featuring world-famous ...