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• 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

• March 28, 2022

  Episode 11: Can Bureaucracy Build a Climate Revolution?

  Between 2009 and 2019, India brought electricity to half a billion citizens, and then turned around and presided over a grid where power from wind and solar became cheaper than electricity from… Read More

• March 29, 2022

  Protecting the Integrity of Federal Science

  Elizabeth Southerland

  In May 2020 Rick Bright, the scientist directing the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority at the Department of Health and Human Services, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging he faced retaliation. That… Read More

• August 5, 2020

  Improving the Endless Frontier Act

  Christopher T. Hill, Patrick Windham, David Cheney

  In an increasingly competitive global economy, America’s leadership in technological innovation is no longer assured. The Endless Frontier Act, with bipartisan sponsors in both the House and Senate, is a new legislative… Read More

• March 14, 2022

  Episode 10: Creating a “High-Minded Enterprise”: Vannevar Bush and Postwar Science Policy

  Jason Lloyd, G. Pascal Zachary

  G. Pascal Zachary, Vannevar Bush’s biographer and editor of a new collection of his writings, talks about this remarkable polymath, the background behind his landmark report, and his surprising legacy for the information age.

• 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

• Winter 2022

  Fossil Preparators and Inclusive Science

  In “What Fossil Preparators Can Teach Us About More Inclusive Science” (Issues, Fall 2021), Caitlin Donahue Wylie makes a compelling argument that fossil preparators can teach us a great deal… Read More

• January 31, 2022

  Episode 7: Shaky Science in the Courtroom

  Eyewitness testimony and forensic science are forms of evidence frequently relied upon in criminal cases. But over the past few decades DNA analysis—and the exonerations it has prompted—has revealed how flawed these… Read More

• January 27, 2022

  The Hard Math of Minerals

  Mark P. Mills

  The great twentieth-century physicist Richard Feynman once said that “it is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge what energy is.” But we do know one unequivocal fact:… Read More

• Summer 2021

  Everything You’ve Ever Learned

  Isabel Cardenas-Navia, Shalin Jyotishi

  Sofia spent 15 years as an active-duty member of the military. While deployed in Afghanistan and stationed in Georgia and Japan, she was involved in logistics planning and management as well as… Read More

• Winter 2022

  A New Compact for S&T Policy

  Since I came to Congress in 1993, increasing diversity in science and technology has been a driving focus of mine. I know from experience that talent is everywhere and that far too… Read More

• Winter 2021

  How “Multiple Breadbasket Failure” Became a Policy Issue

  Molly Jahn

  On December 12, 2017, the US Congress reauthorized the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2018. Every year, this massive bill authorizes spending for the Department of Defense. But this time, it… 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

• February 11, 2021

  US No Longer in Innovation’s Top 10

  Tom Burroughs

  The United States dropped out of the Bloomberg Innovation Index’s top 10 countries this year. The index assesses such things as R&D spending, manufacturing capability, and concentration of high-tech companies. South Korea… Read More

• Summer 2018

  Philosopher’s Corner: What Is Science in the National Interest?

  J. Britt Holbrook

  It all began in the middle of the fourth century BCE. Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics established a hierarchy of goods that laid the foundation for today’s science policy debates. A good pursued for… Read More

• Fall 2021

  Science Policy From the Ground Up

  Melissa Flagg, Arti Garg

  The United States’ system for federal support of scientific research and development emerged in the 1950s. Driven by the goal of building domestic STEM capability for meeting modern society’s needs, the nation… Read More

• Spring 2021

  Talking Past Each Other

  Elizabeth Garbee

  Among the many mostly awful consequences of 2020’s COVID-19 pandemic, one should be regarded as a gift: the revelation of the degree to which we order our society around tomorrow being essentially… Read More

• October 25, 2021

  Twenty Years After the Patriot Act, What Is the Future of Biosecurity?

  Yong-Bee Lim, David Gillum, Kathleen Vogel

  The USA Patriot Act was signed into law exactly 20 years ago, on October 26, 2001. While the law was profoundly shaped by the back-to-back events of the September 11 attacks and… Read More

• October 22, 2021

  America on Edge: Settling for Second Place?

  Norman R. Augustine, Neal Lane

  The United States is on edge in ways the nation has rarely experienced throughout its young history. The country’s global leadership is being challenged in a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive world.… Read More

• October 14, 2021

  A Research Agenda to Get More People Out of Poverty

  Jiaying Zhao, Yuen Pau Woo, Lorne Whitehead

  Today, far too many people live in poverty, even in high-income countries such as the United States and Canada. This situation hurts everyone. Poverty alleviation is not an intractable problem, but its… Read More