Postpandemic
We asked experts to reflect on life after COVID-19. Their wide-ranging contributions explore the postpandemic world as it relates to public health, research, universities, economics, disasters, robots, time, space, and much more.
Editor's Journal
The Vaccine Exception
Read MoreThe advent of an effective vaccine creates a kind of moral clarity, but most science and technology is not like that.
Forum
AI and Jobs
Read MoreBuilding a Better Railroad
Read MoreCOVID-19 and Prisons
Read MoreChina’s Green Dreams
Read MoreA View from the Boardroom
Read MoreVannever Bush’s Sedative?
Read MoreReturning Science and Technology Assessment to Congress
Read MoreCongress’s Beach Failure
Read MoreWho’s Driving Driverless Trucks?
Read MoreMore Industrial Policy
Read MoreThe Perils of Innovating on the Edge
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Gallery
Agricultural Cycles as Allegories
Perspectives
The Path to Better Health: Give People Their Data
Read MoreGiving patients control over their data and privacy will invigorate patient engagement and stimulate patient-focused innovation.
A Plan to Offer Computer Science Classes in All North Carolina High Schools
Read MoreNearly half of North Carolina’s high schools provide no computer science instruction at all, but a comprehensive plan to make offering classes mandatory could close the wealth gap for Black, brown, female, and other underserved students.
“You Have to Begin by Imagining the Worst”
Read MoreDiscussing the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity, and the role of public universities with Janet Napolitano.
Gallery
Duyi Han: The Saints Wear White
Features
Postpandemic
Corona Series
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Read MoreAn agricultural scientist tells of her 15 year quest to turn her questions about the security of the global food system into a policy issue.
Why the US Trails the World in Electric Vehicles
Read MoreDespite Tesla’s success, Americans have been slower to buy EVs than consumers in China and Europe.
How China Beat the US in Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Read MoreWhy it’s time for the United States to get serious about industrial policies.
Human-Centered AI
Read MoreWe should reject the idea that autonomous machines can exceed or replace any meaningful notion of human intelligence, creativity, and responsibility and instead give humans more control of ever-increasing automation.
Innovating “In the Here and Now”
Read MoreThe pandemic has shattered norms of medical knowledge production, revealing the key role of nurses—and trust—in innovation.
Gallery
Cross Section of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
Real Numbers
New Rules for Old Roads
Read MoreAs more walkers, bikers, and scooter riders take to urban streets, traffic safety engineers need to adopt forward-looking strategies to protect them from being hit by cars.
Book Reviews
How Did Wheat Take Over the World?
Read MoreCindy Salo reviews a new book about how wheat became one of the world’s largest crops, and how the plant’s deep history will extend into an ingenious future.
Evolving Our Understanding of the Brain
Read MoreIs a true understanding of the brain, with all its majesty and foibles, possible without the lens of evolutionary biology?
Scents and Sensibilities
Read MoreDo we take olfaction for granted? Barbara Kiser reviews four books offering a collective tour of the world of smell.