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Every issue explores cutting-edge developments in technology, medicine, education, climate change, and much more. Articles provide in-depth analyses of science and technology’s impact on public policy, the economy, and society—bringing today’s best minds to bear on tomorrow’s most critical topics.
Editor's Journal
Science: Too Big for Its Britches?
Science ain’t what it used to be, except perhaps in the systems we have for managing it. The changes taking place are widely recognized. The enterprise is becoming larger and more international,… Read More
From the Hill
From the Hill – Fall 2014
Budget discussions inch forward Congress returned to Washington in September to do a little business before heading home to campaign. As usual at this time of year, there’s still quite a bit… Read More
Gallery
An Archeology of Knowledge
In recent years, much thought and research has been devoted to the visualization of information and “big data.” This has fostered more interactions with artists in an attempt to uncover innovative and… Read More
Perspectives
The True Grand Challenge for Engineering: Self-Knowledge
In 2003, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) published A Century of Innovation celebrating “20 engineering achievements that transformed our lives” across the 20th century, from automobiles to the Internet. Five years… Read MoreRetire to Boost Research Productivity!
University leaders confront multiple challenges with an aging faculty. Writing in Inside Higher Ed in 2011, longtime education reporter Dan Berrett spotlighted the “Gray Wave” of a growing number of faculty members… Read More
Features
21st Century Inequality: The Declining Significance of Discrimination
Today I want to talk about inequality in the 21st century, in particular on the decline in the significance of discrimination and the increase in the significance of human capital. Let… Read MoreNo Time for Pessimism about Electric Cars
The national push to adopt electric cars should be sustained until at least 2017, when a review of fed auto policies is scheduled. A distinctive feature of U.S. energy and environmental policy… Read MoreMilitary Innovation and the Prospects for Defense-Led Energy Innovation
EUGENE GHOLZ Although the Department of Defense has long been the global innovation leader in military hardware, that capability is not easily applied to energy technology Almost all plans to address climate… Read MoreStreamlining the Visa and Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers
Alena Shkumatava leads a research group at the Curie Institute in Paris studying how an unusual class of genetic material called noncoding RNA affects embryonic development, using zebrafish as a model system.… Read MoreImagining Deep Time
An exhibit at the National Academy of Sciences Building, Washington, DC “Geohistory is the immensely long and complex history of the earth, including the life on its surface (biohistory), as distinct from… Read MoreExposing Fracking to Sunlight
The public needs access to reliable information about the effects of unconventional oil and gas development in order for it to trust that local communities’ concerns won’t be ignored in favor of… Read MoreImagining the Future City
A rich blend of engaging narrative and rigorous analysis can provide decisionmakers with the various perspectives they need when making choices with long-range consequences for cities around the world. An ashen sky … Read MoreProfiteering or pragmatism?
Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming by McKenzie Funk. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2014, 310 pp. Jason Lloyd In the epilogue of his book, Windfall: The Booming Business of Global … Read More
Archives – Fall 2014
Ruben Nieto Thor Came Down to Help Mighty Mouse Against Magneto. Oil on canvas. 32 x 48 inches. 2013 Artist Ruben Nieto grew up in Veracruz, Mexico, reading U.S. comic books,… Read More