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January 07, 2026
A Capacity for World-Building
Across sculpture, painting, text, and music, Tavares Strachan creates immersive environments that blend everyday spaces with surreal landscapes.
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Winter 2026
Better Ways to Evaluate Research Results
How should the scientific community discover and respond to errors in research findings?
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Build Confidence in Science by Embracing Uncertainty Rather Than Chasing Reproducibility
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January 05, 2026
“There Are Two Possible Futures for American Science.”
Simons Foundation president David Spergel talks about the evolving landscape for science philanthropy, his outlook for the research enterprise, and remaining hopeful in an uncertain time.
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Fall 2025
Think Imaginatively About Local Entrepreneurship
Without more creative and inclusive thinking about what constitutes entrepreneurship, efforts to help local enterprises can falter.
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Cultivating Mastery in Place
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Fall 2025
Expand Data Access!
In “The Real Returns on NIH’s Intramural Research” (Issues, Summer 2025), Jeffrey Alexander and Rossana Zetina-Beale only begin to scratch the surface by focusing on direct financial returns from quantifiable… Read More
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The Real Returns on NIH’s Intramural Research
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December 15, 2025
Addiction Revisited
Two recent books on addiction “weave an overlapping synthesis of the current state of addiction scholarship,” writes Susan Fitzpatrick—and identify where that scholarship falls short.
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December 10, 2025
Friction Between the Inside and the Outside: The Visionary Work of Fred Tomaselli
What happens when Eastern and Western decorative traditions meet psychotropic substances, organic matter, and found objects?
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Fall 2025
Securing STEM-in-Society Programs
In “STEM-in-Society Programs Deserve Institutional Support” (Issues, Summer 2025), Shobita Parthasarathy and Erin Burkett provide a long overdue assessment of the range of these programs in the United States. Many… Read More
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STEM-in-Society Programs Deserve Institutional Support
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Fall 2025
A Firebreak for Mirror Life
Regulation may not be enough to prevent the potential harms of mirror life. Is it time for a “firebreak” that makes the creation of mirror organisms impossible?
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Building Decision Points Into Research’s Slipperiest Slopes
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December 08, 2025
A Brief Note From the Guy on the Table
A traumatic brain injury gave Robert Cook-Deegan a crash course in a medical research system tangled in technological dilemma and political paradox, a dysfunctional insurance bureaucracy, and the healing powers of superglue.