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• Winter 2021

  The Path to Better Health: Give People Their Data

  Jason Cohen

  As any family doctor can tell you, the greatest potential for improving health care isn’t discovering new treatments for disease, it’s getting patients to do the things we already know work—exercising, quitting… Read More

• Winter 2021

  Human-Centered AI

  Ben Shneiderman

  In early 1997, before Alexa and Siri were conceived, I engaged in several public debates with MIT Media Lab professor Pattie Maes about the future of computing and artificial intelligence. The starting… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Socrates Untenured: New Wine and New Bottles

  Robert Frodeman

  Society will be changed by COVID-19. But how and to what degree? Rather than being a shock the size of 9/11 or the Great Recession, COVID-19 may be destined to become a… Read More

• Summer 2020

  China as Mirror

  Carl Mitcham

  It has become common for Americans to demonize China as a dragon of economic and viral infections that needs to be taught a lesson. The contemporary American love-hate relationship with China is thrown into new relief when it comes to science and technology.

• Summer 2020

  Around Nature

  Juanli Carrión

  

  Juanli Carrión, OSSVLC (Outer Seed Shadow: Valencia) (2016–17). Five hundred years ago, the Spanish government and private investors funded a commercial trip led by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano that would… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Feedlots

  Mishka Henner

  

  Mishka Henner is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Manchester, England. He is known for prints and videos that appropriate image-rich technologies, including Google Earth, Google Street View, and YouTube. He described his… Read More

• July 1, 2020

  Do-It-Yourself Pandemic: It’s Time for Accountability in Models

  Guru Madhavan

  The responsibility of building scientific models has much in common with the responsibility of sitting in the exit row on an airplane. One can enjoy the extra leg room of creating imaginative… Read More

• November 23, 2020

  Pandemic Continues to Ravage US Correctional System

  Tom Burroughs

  The devastation inflicted by the coronavirus on US prisons and jails is “both a moral failure and a public health one,” the New York Times editorial board writes, going on to examine… Read More

• Winter 2020

  How Academic Science Gave Its Soul to the Publishing Industry

  Mark W. Neff

  STEF at 75 America’s globally preeminent university research enterprise is constructed on two bedrock principles of self-governance. The first is autonomy: academic scientists should be left free to determine their own research… Read More

• June 2, 2020

  Ford v. Ferrari—in Space!

  Bhavya Lal

  May 30, 2020, marked the first time in history that human beings were launched into Earth orbit on a privately owned rocket. The SpaceX mission, called Demo-2 because it was intended to… Read More

• September 16, 2020

  Who Believes in Hydroxychloroquine?

  David Adam

  There was a time when we journalists struggled to find meaty stories to cover during the late-summer doldrums. No longer. Amid the continuing deluge of pandemic news, scientists at Oxford University recently… 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

• Summer 2020

  The Autonomy and Integrity of Science

  Clifton A. Poodry, Heather Douglas, James Robert Brown, Michael Feuer, Molly Carnes, Steve Fuller, Sue Rosser

  One indicator of the quality of scholarship is its shelf life. Findings from good science are often not immediately used or useful, but their value requires delayed gratification. My favorite example is… Read More

• Summer 2020

  Forum – Summer 2020

  Gerhard Sonnert, Adam Parris, Steve Fuller, Heather Douglas, Christopher Newfield, Marcy Darnovsky, Jonathan Lewis, Duncan McLaren, Karl Zimmerer, Alex Smith, Netra Chhetri, Roger Stoffregen, John Aubrey Douglass, Valerie K. Haftel, Emmanuel K. Peprah Jr., Stephen Posner, David W. Cash, Peat Leith, Sue Rosser, James Robert Brown, Molly Carnes, Clifton A. Poodry, Norman G. Lederman, Michiel Van Oudheusden, Fabien Medvecky, Stevienna de Saille, Michael Feuer

  Cutting carbon Carbon capture and sequestration technologies will play an essential role in climate change mitigation, so it is not surprising that California’s plan for achieving negative emissions, described by Roger D.… Read More

• Summer 2020

  The Metro Project

  Chris M. Forsyth

  

  Underground public transit systems play a pivotal role in the day-to-day functioning of cities around the world. They also contribute to a city’s unique visual identity. Captivated by the overlooked beauty of… Read More

• Spring 2019

  Pending Memories

  Adrian Fernandez

  

  The latest series of photographs by Cuban artist Adrian Fernandez portray the backside of billboards situated in surreal landscapes. The complex structures and unexpected shapes are suggestive of Russian constructivism, but the… Read More

• January 17, 2020

  The Big Data Mindset

  Iddo K. Wernick

  Implicit in the widely held expectations of a bright technological future is the belief that a certain comprehensive knowledge about the elements of a system will allow scientists to grasp the rules… Read More

• September 22, 2020

  What Science and Technology Owe the National Defense

    On September 23, 2020, Jamie Holmes, Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle, and Margaret O’Mara explored a pivotal moment in US history and its implications for today’s debates over technology and … Read More

• Summer 2019

  Keep on Truckin’

  Kevin Finneran

  I began working at Issues in mid-1987, and 32 years later it’s … what?—sobering? enlightening? depressing? bewildering? astonishing?—to reflect on how science, technology, and health policy has and hasn’t changed. Many topics… Read More

• April 30, 2020

  A Plague Comes to Busytown

  Clark A. Miller

  One of the curious oddities of the COVID-19 crisis is just how poorly science has done at anticipating its twists and turns. Each day, the pandemic seems to surprise us anew. Despite… Read More

• Winter 2020

  Chinese Science Policy at a Crossroads

  Richard P. Suttmeier

  The sharp deterioration of United States-China relations over the past 18 months has raised a series of new challenges for Chinese scientific development. What started out as trade friction has evolved into… Read More

• February 25, 2020

  Killing Rekindles Debate on Young Offenders

  Tom Burroughs

  Three young teenagers are set to be tried as adults for the killing of a college student in New York City in late 2019, but the New York Times editorial board cites… Read More

• Winter 2020

  Neural Glitch

  Mario Klingemann

  

  Mario Klingemann, 2018 Mario Klingemann describes himself as “an artist and a skeptic with a curious mind.” His work spans and incorporates a wide range of tools and technologies, including neural networks… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Dental Exam

  Shara Bailey

  The Tales Teeth Tell aims to introduce readers to the wonderful world of teeth and what they can tell us about human evolution. In the field of evolutionary anthropology, teeth have long… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Fragmentation

  Seth Clark

  

  Seth Clark’s collages and sculpture focus on deteriorating architecture. Usually designed for permanence, buildings are constantly being challenged by geological, meteorological, and other external forces. Clark enjoys studying the way they fall… Read More

• November 18, 2019

  Vaping As Health Policy Experiment

  Tom Burroughs

  Amid proposals to ban e-cigarettes, it should be remembered that vaping can help smokers kick the habit or discourage people from smoking at all, says a New York Times editorial. And a… Read More

• Fall 2019

  Troubles in Climate Journalism

  Warren Pearce

  Matthew Nisbet’s column, “The Trouble With Climate Emergency Journalism” (Issues, Summer 2019), highlights two persistent problems at the heart of public debates on climate change over the past three decades:… Read More

• October 16, 2019

  Forum

  Carl Mitcham, Christopher T. Hill, Gene L. Dodaro, Terri Ann Lowenthal, Cynthia Z. F. Clark, Ruth Macklin, Yan Ping, Sandra L. Calvert, William Savedoff, Sherri Goodman, Warren Pearce, Josh Galperin, David Schimel, Michael Keller, Wendy Gram, Diane Pataki, Dale Hitchcock

  Protecting the census Census Day is right around the corner. The US Government Accountability Office agrees with the challenges facing the upcoming enumeration that Constance F. Citro identified in “Protecting the Accuracy… Read More

• Spring 2019

  How Should Science Respond to CRISPR’d Babies?

  Henry T. Greely

  On November 25, 2018, much of the world (including me) was shocked to hear of the birth of the world’s first babies produced from embryos whose DNA had been edited by the… Read More

• Fall 2018

  Ground Truth: Corona Landmarks

  Julie Anand, Damon Sauer

  

  In this series of images of what remains of the Corona project, Julie Anand and Damon Sauer investigate our relationship to the vast networks of information that encircle the globe. The Corona… Read More