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October 31, 2025

Coser y Cantar

What does ethical fashion look like? Gabriela Damián Miravete’s story explores transborder labor and the future of the textile industry.
June 3, 2025

How ADHD Affects Adults

David Goodman, Sara Frueh

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is the second most prevalent psychiatric disorder in adults. David Goodman explains how ADHD affects adults, the complexities in how it’s diagnosed and treated, and open questions for research in the field.
Summer 2024

What Can Artificial Intelligence Learn From Nature?

Refik Anadol Studio

Living Archive: Nature showcases the output from the Large Nature Model (LNM) by Refik Anadol Studio. Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles maintains a research practice centered around discovering and developing novel… Read More
Fall 2024

The Trap of Securitizing Science

Tommy Shih, Caroline S. Wagner

In recent years, science and technology have emerged as critical domains reshaping the landscape of international relations and national security. In particular, the United States and the European Union have sought to… Read More
May 6, 2025

Using Storytelling to Investigate Scientific Questions

Arula Ratnakar, Mia Armstrong-López

Fiction can be an important tool to explore complex science and technology questions. Arula Ratnakar discusses how storytelling can help both experts and nonexperts think about complex issues.
Spring 2025

If These Walls Could Talk

Kathryn Freeman, Matt Moment

In her enchanting narrative paintings, Kathryn Freeman imagines a world where people coexist with flora and fauna in moments of leisure and creativity.
March 25, 2025

The Rise of Deadly Fungal Pathogens

Angel N. Desai, Jason Lloyd

Angel Desai discusses what fungal pathogens are, why they are becoming more dangerous, and how the public health community can respond to this new threat.
August 8, 2025

The Song Between Worlds

On a future Mars overrun by wealthy tourists, a young explorer ventures out to hear an elusive Martian song vocalized by the long-time residents of the planet. But they quickly run up against what it really means to seek—and share—intangible cultural goods.
Fall 2024

Second-Order Effects of Artificial Intelligence

In “Governing AI With Intelligence” (Issues, Summer 2024), Urs Gasser provides an insightful survey on regulating artificial intelligence during a time of expanding development of a technology that has both… Read More
March 11, 2025

Minimizing Cannabis’s Harms to Public Health

Yasmin Hurd, Sara Frueh

More than half of US states have legalized cannabis, but it remains federally prohibited, which means regulations are decided on a state-by-state basis with little federal guidance. What are the public health implications of current cannabis policy?
November 9, 2021

A Vision for the Future of Science Philanthropy

Evan S. Michelson, Adam F. Falk

Although we can envision many ways that the scientific enterprise might evolve in the future, an often-overlooked component will surely play an essential role: science philanthropy. By this we mean the provision… Read More
January 28, 2025

Music and Health: The Creative Arts and Healing

Renée Fleming, Susan Magsamen, J. D. Talasek

From lullabies to movie soundtracks to workout playlists, music has the capacity to change how we feel. But what is the evidence that music’s effects can transform physical health? On our new… Read More
Summer 2024

The Power of Space Art

One of the remarkable qualities of space art is its ability to amplify the mysterious intangibility of the cosmos (as with the late-nineteenth-century French artist Étienne Trouvelot) and at the same time… Read More
May 30, 2025

The Shade Technician

In a heat-sieged city whose residents have become functionally nocturnal, an essential worker labors during the day to fix private shade structures designed to provide shelter from the grueling sun for anyone who can pay.
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
May 30, 2025

The Limits of Heat Resilience

How resilient to extreme heat can humans really be? Our bodies have a limit—and our response to climate change should reflect that.
April 10, 2025

What IS Going On in Science Policy?

The actions of the second Trump administration have caused disruption across the scientific enterprise. To what extent does the upheaval reflect the administration’s new ambitions for science policy? And how might this … Read More
July 9, 2024

A Road Map for a New Era in Biology and Medicine

Lydia Contreras, Monya Baker

Most people are familiar with DNA, but its cousin, RNA, has become widely known only recently. In 2020, of course, RNA was in the news all the time: the COVID-19 virus is… Read More
Fall 2024

Who Is Responsible for AI Copyright Infringement?

Michael P. Goodyear

Twenty-one-year-old college student Shane hopes to write a song for his boyfriend. In the past, Shane would have had to wait for inspiration to strike, but now he can use generative artificial… Read More
November 19, 2024

The Hidden Engineering That Makes New York Tick

Guru Madhavan, Lisa Margonelli

New York City is the perfect place to understand the importance of modern engineering, but the most valuable lessons won’t be found at the Empire State Building or in Central Park. To… Read More
Winter 2021

Natural Historians of the Industrial Landscape

Julie Anand

Hilla and Bernd Becher were a collaborative duo of German conceptual art photographers who profoundly changed the way artists saw the post-World War II landscape. For more than 40 years, they studied… Read More
January 16, 2024

Ground Truths Are Human Constructions

Florian Jaton

Artificial intelligence algorithms are human-made, cultural constructs, something I saw first-hand as a scholar and technician embedded with AI teams for 30 months. Among the many concrete practices and materials these algorithms… Read More
January 16, 2024

How Generative AI Endangers Cultural Narratives

Jill Walker Rettberg

Sometime last summer, I needed to install a new dryer in my home in Bergen, Norway. I opened a localized version of Google and typed a request for instructions in Norwegian. Everything… Read More
November 5, 2024

Ending Inequities in Health Care

Georges Benjamin, Sara Frueh

The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country, yet we have some of the worst population health outcomes. Our health care system is designed in such a… Read More
Winter 2024

A Road Map for Sustainable Chemistry

Joel Tickner, Ben Dunham

In January 2021, Congress enacted the Sustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act to better coordinate federal and private sector investments in sustainable chemistry research and development, commercialization, and scaling. Since passage of… Read More
March 7, 2023

Episode 27: Confronting Extreme Heat With the World’s First Chief Heat Officer

Jane Gilbert, Jason Lloyd

Miami is so renowned for its warm weather that its professional basketball team is the Miami Heat. But extreme heat can be life-threatening, even in cities like Miami that are used to… Read More
October 22, 2024

Uncovering Hidden Bias in Clinical Research

Lisa Bero, Monya Baker

Check the end of any recent study, and there will be a list of study funders and disclosures about competing interests. It’s important to know about potential biases in research, but this… Read More
Fall 2024

The Puzzle of Pricing the Future

R. David Simpson

Liliana Doganova describes her book, Discounting the Future: The Ascendency of a Political Technology, as a study in the “historical sociology” of discounting. Discounting—determining what value to place on income in… Read More
Spring 2024

Missing Links for an Advanced Workforce

Recent investments in the US advanced manufacturing industry have generated a national workforce demand. However, meeting this demand for workers—particularly technicians—is inhibited by a skills gap. In the sector of microelectronics manufacturing,… Read More
February 28, 2025

Mothering the Bay

When a busy BART train suddenly screeches to a stop deep under the San Francisco Bay, passengers turn to personalized AI agents to understand what’s happened—but they begin to realize that those agents may obscure more than they illuminate.