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Portrait of Darío Gil by Shonagh Rae

The ISSUES Interview

“The Currency of Power Is Increasingly Becoming Science and Technology.”

The incoming chair of the National Science Board, Darío Gil, leads IBM Research, one of the largest corporate labs in the world. He talks with editor Molly Galvin about how science is the new currency of power, the challenges in developing a STEM workforce, and the possibility of a “NATO of science and technology.”Read More

The Ongoing Transformation

Reindeer!

On our latest podcast episode, Jacqueline Hrabok and Bonnie Scheele talk about how reindeer herding requires a deep understanding of the needs of Indigenous communities and academic science.Read More

A Mind at Work

Imo Nse Imeh, "Journey to the Sun" (work in progress), 2024, oil paint, charcoal, India ink and acrylic ink on canvas, 50 x 72 inches.

Monuments to Our Skies

Monuments to Our Skies grew out of Nigerian American artist and scholar Imo Nse Imeh’s deep engagement with questions of faith, trust, belief, and redemption in Black communities.Read More

Participatory Research

Alvin Hathaway jr. on participatory neuroscience research

Lessons From Baltimore for Participatory Research

A landmark study published earlier this year in Nature Neuroscience used brains donated from more than 150 deceased Black Americans. One reason this research is so important is because most biobanks, which compile biological samples for use in biomedical research, and analyses have focused overwhelmingly on people of European descent.Read More

University Research

When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School

There is no good one-size-fits-all answer to the question of accepting research funding from oil and gas companies. Instead, Timothy Lieuwen proposes a framework that schools can use to evaluate potential research funding relationships with oil and gas companies.Read More

Future Tense Fiction

"A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge" by Scott Sherman. Illustration by Rey Velasquez Sagcal

A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge

This month’s Future Tense Fiction story explores a radical response to psychological trauma—and the ethical and scientific boundaries we’re willing to push to find relief. Read More

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The Future of Nuclear Power

The US Department of Energy and big tech companies such as Google and Amazon have announced their support for the development of advanced nuclear reactors. Do their efforts prefigure a nuclear renaissance? And what would such a renewal of the nuclear sector mean for society?

Nuclear Innovation

An Ambidextrous Approach to Nuclear Energy Innovation

An Ambidextrous Approach to Nuclear Energy Innovation

Tension between the promise of new nuclear technologies and uncertainty about their feasibility requires a diversified, balanced research portfolio that can be adjusted locally in concert with global progress.Read More

Engineering Education

Educating Engineers for a New Nuclear Age

Radical designs for fission and fusion energy systems require engineers who are grounded in technical knowledge, adept at engaging communities in participatory design, and fluent in ethical, equity-centered communication.Read More

Decentralized Nuclear?

Can Nuclear Power Go Local?

With origins in the Cold War military-industrial complex, nuclear power struggles to reinvent itself as part of the inclusive, democratic future envisioned by progressives.Read More

Nuclear Waste

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Deep Time: The End of an Engagement

For all its flaws, US nuclear waste policy at least relied on a sense of a moral responsibility toward the present and future. That may now be changing.Read More

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