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December 03, 2025
Tracing the Roots of Motion Capture
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth’s pioneering motion studies laid the groundwork for the sophisticated systems used in biomechanics, animation, and virtual environments today.
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Fall 2025
A Path Into the Bioeconomy
By creating a space that provides safety, equipment, and training, can community biology labs spread the benefits of the bioeconomy?
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Creating a Popular Foundation for the Bio-Age
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December 01, 2025
The Measured Body
Redesigning motion capture systems to be more representative of real human bodies and movements could make them fairer and more useful for applications such as law enforcement and medical diagnostics.
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Fall 2025
Why Should Taxpayers Care About Scientific Cooperation?
Promoting international scientific cooperation has national security, intellectual, economic, and societal benefits for the American people.
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What Happens When the Nuts and Bolts of Science Diplomacy Come Loose?
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November 24, 2025
Heat Map
Poet and painter Richard Siken describes a brain scan given to him by a neurologist following a stroke: “It looks like a map of a city on fire.”
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November 19, 2025
Drawing the Great Hall
Visitors are often astonished as they enter the gilded Great Hall, the focal point of the National Academy of Sciences building.
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Fall 2025
Don’t Forget the Farmers
Will farmers see a benefit from modernized soil tests that provide more accurate assessments of soil quality—and therefore land value?
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For Better Soil, Get Better Data
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November 17, 2025
Stony the Road We Trod: The Tradeoffs Universities Face in Chasing the R1 Designation
As America’s science enterprise is challenged to be more competitive with fewer resources, recognizing and supporting the research capacity of non-R1s offers a path toward a more dynamic innovation landscape.
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November 12, 2025
Beauty in Every Body
Anatomy has long been recognized as a field at the crossroads of politics, medicine, crime, taboo, professionalism, modesty, racism, sexism, and much else. A new book goes beyond these issues in exploring anatomy’s past, asking if early anatomical illustration could have been a space for the exploration of homoerotic desire, hidden in plain sight.
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Fall 2025
A Difficult Act to Maintain
If Singapore is to set a benchmark in the governance of just digital futures, then its regulatory ambition may need to expand.
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Where Is Singapore’s AI Regulation Headed?
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