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• January 16, 2024

  The Question Isn’t Asset or Threat; It’s Oversight

  Emmanuel Didier

  As part of a research group studying generative AI with France’s Académie Nationale de Médecine, I was surprised by some clinicians’ technological determinism—their immediate assumption that this technology would, on its own,… Read More

• Fall 2023

  Informing Decisionmakers in Real Time

  Robert Groves, Mary T. Bassett, Emily P. Backes, Malvern Chiweshe

  Near the end of April 2020, Alondra Nelson, then the president of the Social Science Research Council, wrote an essay announcing the launch of Council “initiatives that propose answers to the question,… Read More

• Fall 2023

  Environmental Apparitions

  Brandon Ballengée

  

  Brandon Ballengée, SOS Humpback Black Seadevil Anglerfish, 2023, salvaged latex house paint on thrifted cotton bed sheets, 77 x 96 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Various Small Fires, Los Angeles,… Read More

• Winter 2023

  The Complicated Legacy of Terry Wallis and His Brain Injury

  Joseph J. Fins

  illustration by Shonagh Rae In the eight years that I have been teaching a seminar on disability rights and brain injury at Yale Law School, I have never come close to tears. But last… Read More

• Spring 2023

  Visions of Nursing

  Anne Wallentine

  

  Tim Okamura, Nurse Tamika, 2021, oil on wood panel, 24 x 30 in. During conflict or crisis—from wars and pandemics to individual health emergencies—nurses are often depicted in art as heroes… Read More

• Summer 2022

  Matchmaking Challenges for Researchers and Policymakers

  Interaction between policymakers and researchers is important for informed decisionmaking. But more often than not, as Adam Seth Levine lays out in “Unmet Desire” (Issues, Spring 2022), such linkages are… Read More

• September 11, 2023

  China Accused of Using AI to Spread Disinformation

  Tom Burroughs

  Chinese operatives are using artificial intelligence to create fake images to be spread on US social media, the tech giant Microsoft alleges, with the goal of sowing disinformation among the voting public… Read More

• 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

• Summer 2023

  Adding Humanity to Anatomy Lessons

  In “When Our Medical Students Learn Anatomy, They See a Person, Not a Specimen” (Issues, Spring 2023), Guo-Fang Tseng provides a wake-up call to treat anatomy as a humanistic as… Read More

• Summer 2023

  ARPA-H Should Zero In on Pandemic Prevention

  Jassi Pannu, Janika Schmitt, Jacob Swett

  More than 20 years ago, Robert Cook-Deegan asked in this magazine, “Does NIH Need a DARPA?” The article described the innovation funding model pioneered by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency—created during… Read More

• Summer 2023

  Why Space Debris Flies Through Regulatory Gaps

  Marilyn Harbert, Asha Balakrishnan

  Within an eight-day period in March 2023, astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) fired their thrusters twice to avoid a projected collision. Part of a dead satellite was hurtling toward the… Read More

• Summer 2023

  Regulations for the Bioeconomy

  In “Racing to Be First to Be Second” (Issues, Spring 2023), Mary E. Maxon ably describes the regulatory challenges to the emerging bioeconomy in the United States. The Biden administration… Read More

• Summer 2023

  How Open Should American Science Be?

  In “The Precarious Balance Between Research Openness and Security” (Issues, Spring 2023), E. William Colglazier makes an important contribution to the ongoing dialog about science security, and particularly regarding the… Read More

• Fall 2021

  Reflections on a Tool of Observation

  Timothy Makepeace

  

  Cryogenic Test Structure, 2018, charcoal on paper, 49 x 49 inches In 2017, Washington, DC-based artist Timothy Makepeace was one of several artists selected by NASA to create artwork inspired by… Read More

• August 18, 2020

  A Patriot Act Moment for Science

  Tayyaba Jiwani

  As the world fights a historic pandemic, science has taken global center stage. Many governments made tough decisions following scientific advice, such as enforcing lockdowns and closing national borders, that ground the… Read More

• Spring 2023

  Materially Different

  In “Computers on Wheels?” (Issues, Winter 2023), Matthew Eisler makes a significant contribution in understanding the roots of the modern electric vehicle (EV) revolution. He provides many missing details of… Read More

• December 20, 2022

  Episode 23: Shirley Malcom – Where Science and Society Meet

  Shirley M. Malcom

  Shirley M. Malcom is a trailblazer in the area of broadening participation in science. Currently senior advisor and director of the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of… Read More

• Spring 2023

  How Science Gets Drawn Into Global Conspiracy Narratives 

  Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert, Trisha Meyer

  A few short years ago, mRNA (messenger ribonucleic acid) was the subject of fundamental research, but it is now known as the basis for COVID-19 vaccines. At the same time, the concept… Read More

• April 18, 2023

  Episode 29: To Solve the AI Problem, Rely on Policy, Not Technology

  Kate Crawford, Monya Baker

  Artificial intelligence is everywhere, growing increasingly accessible and pervasive. Conversations about AI often focus on technical accomplishments rather than societal impacts, but leading scholar Kate Crawford has long drawn attention to the… Read More

• Spring 2014

  The View from Nowhere

  Jason Lloyd

  The global positioning system (GPS) technology incorporated into the vehicles, computers, smart phones, and other devices we use every day provides a convenience that would have been almost unimaginable two decades ago.… Read More

• Fall 2022

  Imagining a Better Internet

  The future of technology is too often imagined and engineered by corporations and venture capitalists, foreclosing more radical possibilities. Today, it is Meta’s iteration of the Metaverse that dominates headlines, a riff… Read More

• Spring 2022

  Unmet Desire

  Adam Seth Levine

  I vividly remember March 2020, the month the United States shut down as COVID-19 spread uncontrollably and upended daily life. At the time, I worked at Cornell University in upstate New York.… Read More

• February 21, 2023

  Episode 26: You’ve Been Misinformed About Sharks

  David Shiffman, Lisa Margonelli

  Recent conversations about scientific misinformation have concentrated on what is new: social media and algorithms that spread all kinds of information—reliable and unreliable—surprisingly fast. But misinformation has long been an issue for… Read More

• November 18, 2021

  The Ongoing Transformation

  For the Issues podcast, we talk with fascinating people to get a behind-the-scenes look at how their research and ideas are transforming our world. Listen and subscribe to The Ongoing Transformation wherever … Read More

• April 12, 2022

  Episode 12: Chasing Connections in Climate Action

  There is scientific consensus on climate change and its human cause, but how to understand and address global warming remains a divided topic in American life. Art and religion are two lenses… Read More

• Winter 2023

  The Most Complex Puzzle

  Julia Buntaine Hoel

  

  Julia Buntaine Hoel, Territory 1, 2017, digital print on aluminum, 16 x 24 inches. Created from microscopy photographs taken by the artist of rhesus macaque brain slides. Artist Julia Buntaine Hoel… Read More

• Spring 2023

  Biosafety Needs to Redefine Itself as a Science

  Antony Schwartz, Andrea Vogel, Mary Brock

  Have you heard the joke about jobs in biosafety? One professional asks another for recommendations to fill an open position. The second says sure, but she first needs recommendations to fill her… Read More

• February 14, 2022

  Episode 8: Fighting COVID with Art

  Because art is a powerful tool for connecting with communities, building stronger relationships between artists and public health programs may be a way to increase people’s confidence about vaccines. On this episode, cartoonist… Read More

• December 6, 2022

  Episode 22: Peaches, Pimentos, and Myths of Innovation

  Cynthia R. Greenlee, Lisa Margonelli

  The challenge of transforming regional economies through technological innovation is at the heart of current discussions about science and industrial policy—not to mention the CHIPs and Science Act itself. To think about what regional… Read More

• Summer 2022

  “What I’m Mostly Afraid of Is That There Will Be Two Sciences—Democratic Science and Autocratic Science.”

  Jerzy Duszynski, Molly Galvin

  Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, close to 5 million Ukrainians—including hundreds of scientists and researchers—have fled the country, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. More… Read More