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Art and Illness

For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability

An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego explores how artists with disabilities and chronic illnesses have navigated their challenges and used their experiences to confront societal norms surrounding health and the body.Read More

The Ongoing Transformation

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Misinformation?

Vaccines, oil spills, genetic engineering, and stem cells—anywhere there’s science, there’s also misinformation. Read More

Long COVID

Centering Patients in Long COVID Research

Patients with long COVID often struggle to find quality health care, and research into the disease is lacking. Patients’ visibility and voices are key to developing effective treatments for long COVID.Read More

International Collaboration

Japan’s New Approach to Collaborative International R&D

To counter worrying trends in domestic R&D, Japan’s science and technology policy pivoted to a radical new approach to international research collaboration.Read More

Unionization

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Postdocs Demanding Better—Together

Postdoctoral researchers are often underpaid, lack benefits, and subject to bullying, harassment, and workplace burnout. Can unionization improve conditions for some of the most essential people in the scientific enterprise?Read More

Regional Development

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To Build a Biorubber Industry on the Prairie

The challenges facing the area around Pittsburg, Kansas—contaminated land, job losses and population decline, and water scarcity—can seem insurmountable. How can the region reinvent itself?Read More

Future Tense Fiction

Rey Velasquez Sagcal's illustration for "Actually Naneen"

Actually Naneen

Shristi employs a robot nanny named Naneen to watch over her kids. As Naneen’s hardware and software ages, Shristi debates whether to replace the nanny with a newer model—and questions which parts of parenting she really wants to automate.Read More

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Winter 2025 ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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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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