Postpandemic

Norman Augustine responds to Chad Holliday’s interview by emphasizing the importance of investing in scientific research.

Reader responses to “A ‘Sedative’ for Science Policy” by Roger Pielke.

Readers respond to Tim Person’s account of how the GAO’s Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team informs Congress.

Reader responses to Cornelia Dean’s article explaining how the National Flood Insurance Program, and congressional inaction, ruined America’s beaches.

Reader responses to Steve Viscelli’s article on the possible ways the robot trucking industry will develop.

Response to “Endless Industrial Policy” by John Alic.

Reader responses to Arati Prabhakar’s proposal for innovating “In the Realm of the Barely Feasible.”

Giving patients control over their data and privacy will invigorate patient engagement and stimulate patient-focused innovation.

Nearly 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.

An agricultural scientist tells of her 15 year quest to turn her questions about the security of the global food system into a policy issue.

Despite Tesla’s success, Americans have been slower to buy EVs than consumers in China and Europe.

Why it’s time for the United States to get serious about industrial policies.

We 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.

The pandemic has shattered norms of medical knowledge production, revealing the key role of nurses—and trust—in innovation.

Discussing the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity, and the role of public universities with Janet Napolitano.

As 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.