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Change and Continuity in US Export Control Policy

The question of instituting new export controls, usually only of interest to specialists, has taken center stage in the current tensions between the United States and China. The Biden administration’s high-technology export controls deliberately blur the boundaries between concerns over military confrontation and economic competition. These rules restrict China’s ability to obtain advanced computer chips to promote the dual objectives of securing or enhancing US technological leadership while also making it more difficult for China to use artificial intelligence and high-performance computers for military purposes. How much of this approach to export controls is new, and how much is part of a long tradition of seeking to sustain technological leadership by regulating trade with political rivals—and allies—in the name of national security?Read More

Community Resilience

Disaster Response Must Help Protect LGBTQ+ Communities

LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately affected by disasters. But there are actions that the federal government and other organizations can take to become trusted resources and better serve LGBTQ+ populations during disasters.Read More

The Ongoing Transformation

Confronting Extreme Heat With the World’s First Chief Heat Officer

Extreme heat can be life-threatening, even in cities like Miami that are used to high temperatures. We talk with the world’s first chief heat officer about what can be done to protect vulnerable communities from extreme heat.Read More

Collaborative Advantage

Creating Global Commons for Science, Technology, and Innovation

Investing in systems of global innovation commons and developing new principles and policies for collaborative science, technology, and innovation could bring substantially greater benefits, not only for the world but for the United States in particular.Read More

Global Science

Navigating the Gray Zones of International Research

A deep global dialogue is necessary to set out what is needed to uphold research standards and how to enforce them. National and global science funders are best positioned to launch a dialogue that can harmonize research norms and build trust.Read More

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The Winter Issue

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The Winter 2023 Issues explores the ethics of patient care during the golden age of neuroscience; how a metaphor borrowed from consumer electronics helped reinvigorate the electric vehicle industry; fixing academia’s approach to sexual harassment; and much more. 

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Collaborate for the Future

If policymakers are to achieve the goal of sustainable well-being in the United States, US science policy needs to shift from competition and toward collaboration. What trends can the United States influence with its domestic science policy?Read More

Human Genome Editing

CRISPR’s Icarus

He Jiankui, a Chinese biophysicist who defied international scientific consensus to orchestrate the germline gene editing of human embryos using CRISPR, sparked an international furor and landed him in prison, but a new film raises issues that reach far beyond a naïve and overly ambitious young researcher.Read More

Biological Weapons Convention

Preparing for Twenty-First-Century Bioweapons

The landscape of international conflict is changing, and the Biological Weapons Convention must prepare for a future of weapons and wars that looks different from those the treaty was designed to prevent.Read More

Transportation Emissions

Pathways to More Rapidly Reduce Transportation’s Climate Change Impact

A strategy focused on battery electric vehicles alone does not recognize some of these vehicles’ limitations nor the advantages of other climate-friendly technologies. There are alternative policy options that could reduce carbon dioxide emissions much more quickly.Read More

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Creativity During COVID

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A Time Capsule of Creative Responses to the Pandemic

Creativity often flourishes in stressful times. A remarkable collection of creative responses from individuals, communities, organizations, and industries is now available to explore in a new archive.Read More

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