Science in the Gilded Age and the Birth of NAS

Every issue explores cutting-edge developments in technology, medicine, education, climate change, and much more. Articles provide in-depth analyses of science and technology’s impact on public policy, the economy, and society—bringing today’s best minds to bear on tomorrow’s most critical topics.

Editor's Journal

  • History Lesson

    When you’re watching Steven Spielberg’s terrific new movie Lincoln, remember that this was the same Congress that passed the Morrill Act and created the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Although… Read More

From the Hill

  • From the Hill – Winter 2013

    House, Senate Committees investigate meningitis outbreak After a meningitis outbreak this fall tied to a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy, House and Senate committees held hearings to investigate what happened, and members on both… Read More

Perspectives

  • The 21st-Century Land Rush

    The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) recently reported that nearly three dozen countries designated as “alarming” or “serious” on its Global Hunger Index scale are leasing vast swaths of farmland… Read More

Features

Real Numbers

Book Reviews

  • How Economics Shapes Science Cover: Mouse made out of money

    Moneyball

    The chorus of praise that has greeted Paula Stephan’s How Economics Shapes Science is well deserved. I am only echoing other reviewers by describing it as learned, insightful, eloquent, and timely. Stephan,… Read More
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