Benjamin Dubansky, Brooke Dubansky, Brandon Ballengée, and Christopher Just, in collaboration with Le Bleu Perdu Project, "Fresh Sea," from the series Né dans le peche (Born in Sin), 2024. Digitized image from a histology slide of American alligator osteoderm, stained with a modified version of Ramón y Cajal’s picroindigo-carmine and Kernechtrot Nuclear Fast Red. Courtesy of the artists, Le Bleu Perdu Project, Atelier de la Nature.

Vol. XLI, No. 3, Spring 2025

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The Strange New Politics of Science

Solving the disconnects between science and society will require much more than good ideas and good intentions—it will require the political will to bring the fragmented institutions of science together. Today’s political environment precludes the science community from making its old pitches to Congress; it will need to break old habits, build new bonds at personal, local, and regional levels, and reconsider the way it works.

Editor's Journal

  • Who Owns Science?

    Lisa Margonelli

    Why has the public not shown much outrage at—or even interest in—the dismantling of the national research project that they’ve been bankrolling for the past 75 years?

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Forum

Perspectives

Features

Real Numbers

  • What We Learned From 25,775 Environmental Lawsuits

    Christopher Rea

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Book Reviews

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