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• June 24, 2024

  Preparing Researchers for an Era of Freer Information

  Peter W. B. Phillips

  If you Google my name along with “Monsanto,” you will find a series of allegations from 2013 that my scholarly work at the University of Saskatchewan, focused on technological change in the… Read More

• Fall 2020

  Debating Fish Pain

  Aaron Van Neste, Anne Berit Skiftesvik, Ben Diggles, Brian Key, Culum Brown, Deborah Brown, Howard I. Browman, Ila France Porcher, Ivan Darío Vargas Roncancio, J. Roger Jacobs, James D. Rose, John Sanbonmatsu, Lynne U. Sneddon, Monica Gagliano, Robert Arlinghaus, Steven J. Cooke, Stuart W. G. Derbyshire, Thomas Klefoth

  In “The Great Fish Pain Debate” (Issues, Summer 2010), Troy Vettese, Becca Franks, and Jennifer Jacquet rightly state that in Germany the assumption that fish feel pain resulted in court… Read More

• March 25, 2020

  Pandemic Science and Politics

  Daniel Sarewitz

  For the past 30 years, I have tried to make sense of the interactions between science and politics, especially the challenge of making decisions under conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. Why—despite huge… Read More

• Spring 2024

  Taking Aristotle to the Moon and Beyond

  G. Ryan Faith

  In 2009, journalist Tom Wolfe, author of the space-age classic The Right Stuff, wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times entitled “One Giant Leap to Nowhere.” Commenting on the… Read More

• September 24, 2024

  Lav Varshney Connects AI Research, Executive Policy, and Public Service

  Lav R. Varshney, Jason Lloyd

  In this installment of Science Policy IRL, host Jason Lloyd goes behind the scenes of the White House Fellowship program with Lav Varshney, associate professor of engineering, computer science, and… Read More

• Fall 2020

  An Elusive Consensus

  Robert Cook-Deegan

  A few months into my medical training, I heard Fred Sanger, the Nobel prize-winning biochemist, describe a miracle—DNA sequencing in his lab—and Ray White, a pioneer in human genetics, excitedly reveal the… Read More

• Fall 2025

  Three Months on the Way to FAIR

  Kelvin Droegemeier, Barbara Snyder, Toby Smith, Nancy Andrews, Willie May, Kurt Marek, Farin Kamangar

  When the National Institutes of Health announced its intention to cap the indirect costs of research, an ad hoc group of organizations joined forces to develop a more transparent model.

• Fall 2025

  Strengthening Science in the Long Term

  More robust public participation in science can yield political benefits, but—more importantly—it can improve science itself.

• Winter 2026

  Sculpting The Floods

  Nathalie Miebach

  

  Nathalie Miebach explores how scientific data can be experienced through artistic processes, making the complexities of natural systems physically and emotionally perceptible.

• Winter 2026

  How I Learned to Conduct Research That Makes a Difference in the Lives of Arizona’s Kids

  Gabriel Q. Shaibi

  Gabriel Shaibi was trained to gather evidence about diabetes prevention. To have an impact, he learned to gather partners.

• Spring 2026

  What Do We Want From AI?

  John P. Nelson

  Public values must shape governance and implementation of artificial intelligence.

• Spring 2026

  Spam Policy and the Myth of the Ungovernable Internet

  Rebecca Coyne

  The story of feckless efforts to address spam in the early 2000s offers a cautionary tale for attempts to regulate artificial intelligence today.

• September 3, 2024

  Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer: Refugee Communication Networks

  Faheem Hussain, Kimberly Quach

  In our miniseries Cool Ideas for a Long, Hot Summer, we’re working with Arizona State University’s Global Futures Lab to highlight bold ideas about how to mitigate and adapt to climate… Read More

• Spring 2025

  “R&D” Means Something Different on Capitol Hill

  Sheril Kirshenbaum

  Scientists need to learn how information flows to congressional staffers—and the crucial role they play in setting policy.

• Winter 2025

  Our Bases Are Precarious!

  Wilko Graf von Hardenberg

  Sea level rise has become a standard indicator of how humans are transforming the planet. But our ideas about sea level, why we measure it, and how it varies have changed radically over the centuries.

• April 26, 2022

  Episode 13: Demystifying the Federal Budget

  How do budgets evolve into policies? As Congress starts to appropriate money for President Biden’s 2023 budget requests, we talk with Matt Hourihan, director of the R&D Budget and Policy Program… Read More

• Fall 2023

  An Epic Battle Against Polluters

  Charles N. Herrick

  When we think about the evolution of environmental policy, many of us tend to imagine congressional committee wrangling, Sierra Club activists trying to out-hustle coal industry lobbyists, and competing policy briefs from… Read More

• Fall 2025

  Build Confidence in Science by Embracing Uncertainty Rather Than Chasing Reproducibility

  Anne L. Plant

  Despite calls to fund reproducibility studies, resources would be better spent on developing tools that enable efficient collection and sharing of experimental protocol details and metadata to enable study comparisons.

• Summer 2024

  Industrial Terroir Takes on the Yuck Factor

  Christy Spackman

  Illustration by Shonagh Rae Would you drink water you knew was made from your own poop or pee? What if that water showed up in a glass of award-winning beer? Perhaps you’ve… Read More

• Spring 2025

  Who’s Afraid to Share Science in Their Listserv?

  Celinda Lake, Emily Garner

  An interview with Democratic pollsters on the chicken-and-egg challenges of keeping science in neutral political territory.

• Winter 2026

  Getting Serious About Improving Biosafety

  If biotechnology is going to become a foundation of the nation’s economy, oversight must become more adaptive and collaborative.

• May 21, 2024

  Novel Technologies and the Choices We Make: Historical Precedents for Managing Artificial Intelligence

  Marc Aidinoff, David Kaiser

  Scientific and technological innovations are made by people, and so they can be governed by people. Notwithstanding breathless popular descriptions of disempowered citizens cowed by technical complexity or bowing to the inevitable… Read More

• Fall 2023

  How Will Carbon Capture Transform Port Arthur, Texas?

  Tristan Baurick

  Hilton Kelley says you can understand a whole lot about his hometown from the top of City Hall. Standing at a broad, fifth-floor window, the community organizer points across Port Arthur, a… Read More

• Summer 2025

  If Your Snark Be a Boojum

  Readers respond to “The Strange New Politics of Science” by M. Anthony Mills and Price St. Clair.

• Spring 2026

  Roving the Prairies

  Charles N. Herrick

  Charles N. Herrick navigates the science and art of American grassland restoration in his review of George Frazier’s recent book on grassland rivers.

• Spring 2019

  UFOs Won’t Go Away

  Keith Kloor

  A community of believers in extraterrestrial visitations continues to push its story, and the media and Pentagon continue to listen. Who benefits from these tales of close encounters?

• Fall 2025

  A New Direction for Research Universities

  As the relationship between society and academia changes, research universities must adapt to keep pace or risk becoming irrelevant.

• Summer 2023

  Enhancing Trust in Science

  In “Enhancing Trust in Science and Democracy in an Age of Misinformation” (Issues, Spring 2023), Marcia McNutt and Michael M. Crow encourage the scientific community to “embrace its vital role… Read More

• Summer 2023

  How to Investigate an Algorithm

  Meredith Broussard

  At the end of 2021, Sujin Kim was a senior at the University of Michigan. Eager to follow up her undergraduate political science studies with a PhD, Kim was applying to 15… Read More

• Spring 2025

  “Universities Are the Invisible Hand.”

  Marcia McNutt, Michael M. Crow

  On March 12, 2025, the leaders of the Issues editorial board—Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University—met on Zoom to offer… Read More