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• Spring 2004

  The Hype about Hydrogen

  Joseph J. Romm

  We can’t use hydrogen’s long-term potential as an excuse to avoid taking action now on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Hydrogen and fuel cell cars are being hyped today as few technologies have… Read More

• Fall 2003

  Forum – Fall 2003

  Michael May, Albert H. Teich, George Smith, M. Granger Morgan, Henry I. Miller, Gerald L. Epstein, Dorothy E. Denning, Robin Coupland, Edward Hammond, E. William Colglazier, David P. Fidler, Frances Williams, Ariane Koenig, Philipp Aerni, M. Ann Tutwiler, Peter Hazell, Jody Williams, Paul Wapner, Gina Coplon-Newfield, Gordon H. Orians, Jerry F. Costello

  Federal R&D: More balanced support needed Thomas Kalil (“A Broader Vision for Government Research,” Issues, Spring 2003) is correct that the missions of agencies with limited capacities to support research… Read More

• Summer 2004

  Asian countries strengthen their research

  Diana Hicks

  The global scientific landscape is changing. During the past decade, many governments, convinced that their economic futures lay with knowledge-based economies, sought to strengthen national research and education. Increased foreign scientific competitiveness… Read More

• Winter 2004

  Practical Climate Change Policy

  Jonathan B. Wiener, Richard B. Stewart

  Global climate change policy has reached a stalemate. Europe, Canada, and Japan have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, but it now appears that Russia probably will not, and the Bush administration has ruled… Read More

• Fall 2001

  The Info/Biotech Connection

  Kevin Finneran

  Although wide agreement exists that information technology (IT) and biotechnology will be the primary sources of innovation for the foreseeable future, this insight seems not to have penetrated fully into federal research… Read More

• Winter 2002

  Achievement Versus Aptitude in College Admissions

  Richard C. Atkinson

  Students should be selected on the basis of their demonstrated success in learning, not some ill-defined notion of aptitude. Every year, more than a million high school students stake their futures on… Read More

• Fall 2002

  The Perils of Groundwater Pumping

  Robert Glennon

  The next time you reach for a bottle of spring water, consider that it may have come from a well that is drying up a blue-ribbon trout stream. The next time you… Read More

• Fall 2002

  Forum – Fall 2002

  Burton Richter, Lincoln Wolfenstein, Jack Ward Thomas, Gerald B. Kauvar, Joseph M. Sussman, Robert Timothy Reagan, Henry L. Roediger III, Alan W. Scheflin, Robert E. Barnhill, Nils Hasselmo, Felice Stadler, Frank O'Donnell, Eric Uram, Martin Pitt, Rajendra K. Pachauri, Stephen O. Andersen, K. Madhava Sarma

  Dealing with terror I was a member of John Hamre’s Commission on Science and Security, and he does an outstanding job in his article of explaining what we were about and why… Read More

• Fall 2001

  A New Approach to Managing Fisheries

  Robert Repetto

  Most commercial fisheries in the United States suffer from overfishing or inefficient harvesting or both. As a result, hundreds of millions of dollars in potential income is lost to the fishing industry,… Read More

• Summer 2000

  The Boom in Industry Research

  Charles F. Larson

  Meetings on science and technology (S&T) policy or innovation in Washington, D.C., or elsewhere around the country usually find at least one speaker lamenting that industry has abandoned longer-term high-risk research. Nothing… Read More

• Winter 2000

  Making the Internet Fit for Commerce

  Jon M. Peha

  The laws of commerce, which were established in a marketplace where sellers and buyers met face to face, cannot be expected to meet the needs of electronic commerce, the rapidly expanding use… Read More

• Fall 1998

  An Electronic Pearl Harbor? Not Likely

  George Smith

  Information warfare: The term conjures up a vision of unseen enemies, armed only with laptop personal computers connected to the global computer network, launching untraceable electronic attacks against the United States. Blackouts… Read More

• Spring 1999

  The Age of Hubris and Complacency

  Kevin Finneran

  It’s early March. The Dow is getting ready to add a digit. The U.S. military is flexing its muscles in Iraq and Kosovo. The chattering class is contentedly chewing on the paltry… Read More

• Fall 1998

  Forum – Fall 1998

  Philip J. Cook, M. S. Swaminathan, P. N. Tandon, Lu Yongxiang, Francisco Bolivar-Zapata, Eugene Skolnikoff, William J. Baumol, Robert Solow, Paul H. Blackman, Richard J. Codey, Allan Walstad, Terry Davies, Maureen Hinkle, Dennis R. Minano, Don Ritter, F. Scott Bush, Bob Shinn, Bert R. J. Bolin, Alan P. Loeb

  International science cooperation In “Toward a Global Science” (Issues, Summer 1998), Bruce M. Alberts highlights four principles that guide the international activities of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. They… Read More

• Summer 1999

  Does university-industry collaboration adversely affect university research?

  Diana Hicks, Kimberly Hamilton

  Below is the page above transcribed into this article post. With university-industry research ties increasing, it is possible to question whether close involvement with industry is always in the best interests of… Read More

• Summer 1999

  Are New Accountability Rules Bad for Science?

  Susan E. Cozzens

  In 1993, the U.S. Congress quietly passed a good government bill, with little fanfare and full bipartisan support. President Clinton happily signed it into law, and Vice President Gore incorporated its principles… Read More

• Summer 1998

  Computers Can Accelerate Productivity Growth

  Kevin J. Stiroh, Robert H. McGuckin

  Conventional wisdom argues that rapid change in information technology over the past 20 years represents a paradigm shift, one perhaps as important as that caused by the electric dynamo near the turn… Read More

• Summer 1998

  No Productivity Boom for Workers

  Stephen S. Roach

  America’s love affair with the new technologies of the Information Age has never been more intense, but nagging questions remain about whether this passion is delivering on its promise to accelerate growth… Read More

• Winter 1999

  The New Competitive Landscape

  Debra Van Opstal

  Only a decade ago, global competition shook U.S. self-confidence to the core. U.S. industry seemingly could not match the price and quality of manufactured goods that surged into the domestic market. As… Read More

• Winter 1999

  EPA analyzed

  David Clarke

  To the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is faced with legislative requirements to better explain its goals and achievements under the Government Performance and Results Act as well as numerous other independent… Read More

• Summer 1997

  University Rankings Revisited

  Robert M. Rosenzweig

  To the list of life’s very few certainties, Americans at least may confidently add a new category: ratings. We are an extremely competitive people, a fact reflected in our political and economic… Read More

• Spring 1997

  Roundtable: The Future of Computing and Telecommunications

  As part of its 10th anniversary symposium on May 16, 1996, the National Research Council’s Computer Science and Telecommunications Board convened a panel of experts to speculate about what the future holds.… 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?

• March 27, 2026

  The Pocket Box™

  What happens when a technology moves from groundbreaking scientific discovery to mass consumer product? Gunnar Anderson’s story explores a mysterious new discovery that breaks the bounds of physics as we once understood them. But quickly, scientific awe morphs into commercial prospecting—with little regulation and horrifying consequences.

• February 27, 2026

  The Dividing Towers of Mumbai

  Moira Shourie returns to Mumbai, the city she once called home while working at MTV India. She reflects on how a culture of celebrity, rampant inequality, and complex urban design divide some residents and bring others together.

• Summer 2025

  How to Catalyze a Safer and More Sustainable Chemical Industry

  Roger Turner, Joel Tickner, Molly Jacobs

  The chemical industry’s last century is a story of highs and lows—both provide lessons that can be used to design its future.

• 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

• Fall 2024

  Transforming How the Environmental Protection Agency Does Science

  Terry F. Yosie

  For the past half century, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has applied a common regulatory framework to the implementation of public health and environmental statutes that primarily involves focusing on discrete… Read More

• Spring 2024

  Harvesting Minnesota’s Wind Twice

  Ariel Kagan, Mike Reese

  The University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) is located in the city of Morris, in a region of the state where the winds howl across the plains of… 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