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• 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

• September 2, 2022

  Competing in the Twenty-First Century

  Innovation PolicyA New S&T Policy for a New Global RealityBruce R. Guile, Caroline S. WagnerGlobalized science and engineering capability has changed how innovation happens and who it benefits. US policies need to… Read More

• Summer 2024

  The Anthropocene: Gone But Not Forgotten

  In “A Fond Farewell to the Anthropocene” (Issues, Spring 2024), Ritwick Ghosh advances an insightful—and often neglected—analysis. The long-running controversies around the geophysical science of the Anthropocene have not only… Read More

• January 17, 2025

  The Wait

  When Emilia’s brother disappears, she turns to a government agency that tracks citizens’ locations in real time in order to protect them—only to realize that the agency’s real goal is to simply create an illusion of safety.

• Summer 2024

  Unleashing Synergy or Accelerating Fragmentation?

  Kyung Ryul Park

  Over the last 40 years, international collaboration has become an essential strategy for the global science and technology (S&T) enterprise. Collaboration enables countries to leverage foreign expertise and equipment and distributes the… Read More

• February 27, 2024

  Building Community in the Bayou 

  Monique Verdin, J. D. Talasek

  At the age of 19, Monique Verdin picked up a camera and began documenting the lives of her relatives in the Mississippi Delta. Little did she know that she would spend the… Read More

• December 13, 2024

  A Healing at the Triple B Trophy Lodge

  What if you could create a clone of someone who has done you harm—and then kill it? When a skeptical journalist visits the cultish “kill therapy” retreat to profile its ambitious founder, she inadvertently opens the door to histories she had long endeavored to forget.

• November 22, 2024

  A Time Between

  Detectives digging into evidence of a tragic death find themselves confronted with two different versions of the past—and, perhaps, the present.

• 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

• November 8, 2024

  Collateral Damage

  From the Future Tense Fiction archives: A short story from Justina Ireland about what happens when a robot is sent into combat alongside human soldiers.

• Spring 2024

  Channels for Arctic Diplomacy

  Nataliya Shok, Katherine Ginsbach

  Illustration by Shonagh Rae During the summer of 2016, in Russia’s arctic Yamal Peninsula, a heat wave resurfaced anthrax bacteria long buried in the permafrost. The bacteria then killed thousands of reindeer… Read More

• Fall 2022

  A Vision for Democratizing Government Data

  Julia Lane

  During the earliest weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a desperate need for data to respond to the worst labor market crisis in almost a century. State-administered unemployment claims skyrocketed. Jobseekers,… Read More

• October 25, 2024

  Patrons

  Cassidy McFadzean imagines extraterrestrials who selectively lift humans from Earth and transport them to a deep-space artists colony. As they do, the distant visitors, known as Patrons, dramatically shift the terrestrial communities where they touch down.

• May 30, 2024

  Warm Eddy in Gulf Could Spell Trouble

  Tom Burroughs

  A large eddy of warm water swirling in the Gulf of Mexico may transform storms this summer into powerful hurricanes, an NPR station in South Florida reports. The eddy spun off the… 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

• May 21, 2024

  A Human Rights Framework for AI Research Worthy of Public Trust

  Mary L. Gray

  In 2014, researchers at Cornell University and Facebook joined forces for an experiment. They wanted to find out whether emotional contagion occurs on social media—whether the expressions of emotion showing up in… Read More

• October 4, 2024

  Empathy Hour

  From the Future Tense Fiction archives: A story about the aftermath of massive climate migration, and the use of deepfake technology to manufacture complacence.

• Spring 2024

  An Elusive and Indefinable Boundary

  Virginia Hanusik

  

  Seven years before the release of Silent Spring in 1962, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson wrote The Edge of the Sea. Part field guide to the Atlantic seashore, part meditation on… Read More

• Spring 2024

  The Roots That Ward Off Disaster

  Samantha Montano

  Every summer I take my undergraduate emergency management students to Louisiana to learn about disasters in the Gulf. One of our most valuable experiences is volunteering with local organizations that are replanting… Read More

• September 27, 2024

  Move Fast and Fake Things

  In a recent episode of the podcast Women at Warp, the hosts discussed their favorite episodes of the various Star Trek series in which the Holodeck—a fully immersive, interactive virtual reality… Read More

• Spring 2021

  Technoscientific Bodies

  Michael Sappol

  

  The sensory pathway and radio system, in Gerhard Venzmer et al., Hand- und Lehrbuch der Krankenpflege 1 (Stuttgart: Franckh’sche Verlag, 1938), pl. 10. Originally from Fritz Kahn, Das Leben des Menschen … 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

• Winter 2024

  FLOE: A Climate of Risk

  Stephen Talasnik

  

  STEPHEN TALASNIK, Glacial Mapping 2023; Digitally printed vinyl wall print, 10’ x 14’ (h x w) Imagination can be a fundamental tool for driving change. Through creative narratives, we can individually… Read More

• Winter 2024

  Economists Being Economists

  Daniel Sarewitz

  In early nineteenth-century England, bands of men known as Luddites went about smashing the automatic knitting machines that had taken their jobs. The novelist Thomas Pynchon described the situation in a 1984… Read More

• March 12, 2024

  Walter Valdivia Researches for the White House

  Walter D. Valdivia, Lisa Margonelli

  The Science Policy IRL series pulls back the curtain on who does what in science policy and how they shaped their career path. In previous episodes we’ve looked at the cosmology 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

• Summer 2023

  Science and Global Conspiracies

  What difference does the internet make to conspiracy theories? The most sobering aspect of “How Science Gets Drawn Into Global Conspiracy Narratives” (Issues, Spring 2023), by Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert,… Read More

• Fall 2022

  Is Open Source a Closed Network?

  In “Architectures of Participation” (Issues, Summer, 2022), Gerald Berk and Annalee Saxenian present a compelling question: “Given the complexity and divergent trajectories of today’s innovation systems, how should public policy… Read More

• January 31, 2024

  Zach Pirtle Explores Ethics for Mars Landings

  Zach Pirtle, Lisa Margonelli

  NASA’s Artemis project aims to establish a long-term human presence on the moon—and then put astronauts on Mars. So in addition to designing rockets and spacesuits, NASA is also exploring the ethical… Read More

• January 24, 2024

  To Discourage Science Misconduct, Encourage “Delight of Discovery”

  Tom Burroughs

  A top research center, the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, plans to retract or correct numerous scientific papers amid allegations that the authors falsified data by manipulating images. In Issues, the science… Read More