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• Winter 2011

  Making Stories Visible: The Task for Bioethics Commissions

  Adam Briggle, Meera Lee Sethi

  A little before lunchtime on December 6, 1957, when the United States made its first attempt to match the triumph of Russia’s Sputnik 1 by launching its own Vanguard TV3 satellite into… Read More

• Fall 2024

  Lessons From Baltimore for Participatory Research

  Alvin Hathaway Sr.

  Alvin Hathaway Sr. explains what Baltimore’s African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative needed to gain insight, influence, and credibility.

• Summer 2024

  Bringing Communities In, Achieving AI for All

  Shobita Parthasarathy, Jared Katzman

  Hopes for the future of artificial intelligence would seem to be bright. There is, after all, a great deal of utility in AI already. AI tools can provide high-quality real-time translation for… Read More

• Fall 2025

  A Coordinated Approach to Cannabis Policy and Product Safety

  Symone T. Griffith, Marisa L. Kreider, Maxwell C. K. Leung

  The United States urgently needs a coordinated approach to regulating the use of cannabis that prioritizes product safety and patient well-being.

• Summer 2023

  How to Catalyze a Collaboration

  Annamaria Carusi, Laure-Alix Clerbaux, Clemens Wittwehr

  In the early months of the pandemic, researchers working to respond to the urgent need for information were faced with constraints on conventional collaboration. In an attempt to address both problems at… Read More

• Fall 2020

  In the Realm of the Barely Feasible

  Arati Prabhakar

  What would the Vannevar Bush of 1945 make of 2020? He could beam with justifiable pride in having paved the way for an information revolution, an eightfold growth in real gross domestic… Read More

• Summer 2017

  Forum – Summer 2017

  Neal Lane, Edward A. Parson, Jay Apt, Christopher T. Hill, Jennie C. Stephens, Alan Robock, Peter C. Frumhoff, Alex Trembath, Rose Cairns, Holly Jean Buck, Jane A. Flegal, Jessica Lovering, Benoît Godin, Jens H. Kuhn, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Adrià López Baucells, Nicholas Evans

  Climate engineering The articles in the Spring 2017 Issues by David W. Keith, “Toward a Responsible Solar Geoengineering Research Program,” and Jane C. S. Long, “Coordinated Action against Climate Change: A New… Read More

• Fall 2024

  A Vision for Centering Workers in Technology Development

  Amanda Ballantyne, Jodi Forlizzi, Crystal Weise

  Illustration by Shonagh Rae. Artificial intelligence has been hyped in the media and in workplaces, especially since OpenAI released ChatGPT in November 2022. In the workplace, AI systems can be used for… Read More

• Fall 2020

  A “Sedative” for Science Policy

  Roger Pielke Jr.

  In science policy, the adoption of a “frontier” metaphor served to rationalize research exclusively on individual scientists exploring the unknown. In so doing, the metaphor has been an intellectual soporific, absolving the scientific community from the need to consider its broader responsibilities.

• Spring 2024

  The Science-Politics Power Struggle

  Helen Pearson

  Politicians often assume that “following the science” will help make choices more straightforward, public policy expert Geoff Mulgan writes in his book When Science Meets Power. “Yet my experience is that this… Read More

• Summer 2025

  Google “Toaster Laser”

  If all research and technology are dual use, how does one regulate and control access to potentially dangerous technologies?

• Summer 2022

  Creating Common Ground With Chinese Researchers

  Joy Y. Zhang, Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, Kathleen M. Vogel

  In 2006, China’s biomedical sector was the ninth largest in the world. By 2021, it had become the second largest, after the United States. In the context of the increasing global importance of… Read More

• Spring 2022

  A Global Movement for Engaged Research

  Angela Bednarek, Vivian Tseng

  The US research enterprise is famously well developed, but there is a mismatch between the research knowledge that is produced and the socially robust knowledge that is needed to address the challenges… Read More

• Spring 2024

  Engineering on Shaky Ground: Lessons From Mexico

  Elizabeth Reddy

  The Third International Conference on Earthquake Early Warning in 2014 drew roughly 100 attendees from around the world, enough to pack a small lecture hall. The first speaker, University of California, Berkeley… Read More

• Summer 2025

  The Fragility of Doing Good

  The current environment for both philanthropic funding and nonprofit work may make it difficult to enact institutional changes.

• Summer 2025

  Cultivating Mastery in Place

  Maryann Feldman, Alaina Kayaani-George

  Diné entrepreneurs entwine economic renewal with mutual obligation, providing a model of regional economic development that serves the community.

• Spring 2019

  Three Venues for Discussing Human Gene Editing

  Peter Mills

  Little did we know when we were writing the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report Genome Editing and Human Reproduction: Social and Ethical Issues, published in July 2018, how quickly our call… Read More

• Summer 2022

  A New Social Contract

  Elizabeth Garbee

  Last summer, my friend Sarah and I tried to support local businesses that were hit hard during the pandemic by meeting up at various independent coffee shops around town to do our… Read More

• Winter 2024

  Embracing Intelligible Failure

  In “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Intelligible Failure” (Issues, Fall 2023), Adam Russell asks the important and provocative questions: With the growth of “ARPA-everything,” what makes the… Read More

• Fall 2023

  Science Policy in the Spotlight

  Kevin Finneran

  It happened. One of the summer’s hottest films is about who should have the privilege of providing scientific advice to the government. Science policy has finally moved to center stage, and we… Read More