Stephen Johnson

Stephen Johnson

Executive Editor, Big Think

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Stephen Johnson is Executive Editor at Big Think. His writing has appeared in PBS, U.S. News & World Report, and newspapers and magazines across the Midwest. He lives in St. Louis.

President Donald Trump signed a 'right-to-try' bill on Wednesday, but some think the new law will do more harm than good.
The updated recommendations come in the wake of research that shows an alarming rise of colon and rectal cancer among young adults.
Kim Kardashian is meeting with Jared Kushner and President Donald Trump on Wednesday to talk prison reform and the case of Alice Marie Johnson, who's service life for a nonviolent crime.
After revealing new policies, Starbucks closed more than 8,000 of its stores Tuesday afternoon so some 175,000 employees could undergo racial bias training.
Support for increased gun control in the U.S. is slowly rising, but one group of Americans seems to change their minds faster than others.
A new paper published in the journal American Psychologist shows how NASA is using personality research to learn what makes the best team of astronauts.
A new study echoes a body of prior research showing that men tend to outperform women in a variety of navigational and spatial tasks.