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• Spring 2024

  Ten Years Into the Gulf Research Program

  Lauren Alexander Augustine

  On April 20, 2010, an explosion ripped through the Deepwater Horizon, an oil rig operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and triggered the worst oil spill to occur in US waters and… Read More

• 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

• 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

• April 17, 2024

  Bringing Mars Samples to Earth Sooner—and Safely

  Tom Burroughs

  NASA is seeking faster ways to deliver to Earth the soil and rock samples now being collected on Mars by the rover Perseverance, hoping to move up arrival to sometime in the… Read More

• Spring 2024

  Mud, Muddling, and Science Policy

  Lisa Margonelli

  Looking across the clam flat and the remains of a fishing weir toward the tidal marsh at Squirrel Point, Arrowsic, Maine. Photo by Lisa Margonelli. Most days, I think about science policy… Read More

• June 20, 2023

  Episode 33: Combating the “Multi-Dimensional Beast” of Chronic Pain

  Prasad Shirvalkar, Jason Lloyd

  Chronic pain, according to a 2023 study, affects more Americans than diabetes, depression, and hypertension. Yet the disease is poorly understood, often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and effective treatments are in short supply.… Read More

• Spring 2023

  Visions of Nursing

  Anne Wallentine

  

  Tim Okamura, Nurse Tamika, 2021, oil on wood panel, 24 x 30 in. During conflict or crisis—from wars and pandemics to individual health emergencies—nurses are often depicted in art as heroes… Read More

• Spring 2023

  The Transformation of American Nursing

  Dominique A. Tobbell

  Nursing faced a crisis in the years following World War II. The arrival of new technologies, potent pharmaceuticals, and complex surgeries had made patient care increasingly complex. The regimented, procedure-based training of… Read More

• Spring 2023

  When Our Medical Students Learn Anatomy, They See a Person, Not a Specimen

  Guo-Fang Tseng

  In 1986, a Buddhist nun named Cheng Yen started a hospital in Hualien, a rural, mountainous region in eastern Taiwan, a half-day’s journey from population centers like Taipei. A few years later,… 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

• Winter 2024

  Rethinking Engineering Education

  We applaud Idalis Villanueva Alarcón’s essay, “How to Build Engineers for Life” (Issues, Fall 2023). As the leaders of an organization that has for 36 years sought to inspire, support,… Read More

• Summer 2022

  Reinventing the Peach, the Pimento, and Regional Identity

  Cynthia R. Greenlee

  The story of how a small network of forward thinkers used biotechnology, entrepreneurial moxie, government-supported experimentation, and powerful storytelling to transform their state into an agent of innovation.

• 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

• 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

• Fall 2022

  The Wireless Body

  Jeremy A. Greene

  Holter’s original wearable health technology: the radioelectrocargiograph, c. 1957. Courtesy of the New York Academy of Sciences. Nearly half the US adult population will pass out at some point in their lives.… Read More

• Winter 2024

  Revisiting the Connection Between Innovation, Education, and Regional Economic Growth

  Grace J. Wang

  Forty years ago, Bruce Babbitt, then governor of Arizona, wrote in the first issue of this magazine that state and local governments had “discovered scientific research and technological innovation as the prime… Read More

• Winter 2024

  How Health Data Integrity Can Earn Trust and Advance Health

  Jochen Lennerz, Nick Schneider, Karl Lauterbach

  Imagine a scenario in which Mary, an individual with a rare disease, has agreed to share her medical records for a research project aimed at finding better treatments for genetic disorders. Mary’s… Read More

• Winter 2024

  The Technologist

  John Liu, William B. Bonvillian

  Soon after completing a master’s program in advanced manufacturing and design, Neha was hired as a process engineer at a semiconductor wafer-cutting plant. Not long after starting, she realized multiple processes at… Read More