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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.
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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.”