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• Summer 2006

  Power Play: A More Reliable U.S. Electric System

  Jay Apt, Lester B. Lave, M. Granger Morgan

  The United States ranks toward the bottom among developed nations in terms of the reliability of its electricity service. Catastrophic events, such as the August 14, 2003, blackout that put 50 million… Read More

• Winter 2006

  A Forgotten Model for Purposeful Science

  Richard J. Green, Wil Lepkowski

  Toward the end of Richard Nixon’s first term as president, his Republican administration forced on a reluctant National Science Foundation (NSF) a major research program that looked like something out of a… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Envisioning a Transformed University

  James J. Duderstadt, Wm. A. Wulf, Robert Zemsky

  Rapidly evolving information technology (IT) has played an important role in expanding our capacity to generate, distribute, and apply knowledge, which in turn has produced unpredictable and frequently disruptive change in existing… Read More

• Spring 2005

  Book Review: Commercializing the university

  Robert Zemsky

  Commercializing the university Academic Capitalism and the New Economy: Markets, State, and Higher Education, by Sheila Slaughter and Gary Rhoades. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004, 424 pp. Robert Zemsky… Read More

• 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

• Spring 2004

  Nuclear Technology’s Numerous Uses

  Alan E. Waltar

  We should not let unjustified fear of radiation create obstacles to continued progress and benefits. In his 1953 “Atoms for Peace” address to the United Nations, President Dwight D. Eisenhower challenged scientists… 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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

  For Better Soil, Get Better Data

  Vivian Zhong, Clay Mitchell

  If you were buying a house, would you expect the value of the property to be based on its current condition, or its condition 50 years ago? When it comes to farmland… Read More

• 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

• Winter 2024

  Living Computers

  Lisa Margonelli

  In 1967, the idea of computer science as a distinct discipline seemed outlandish enough that three leaders of the movement felt the need to write a letter to Science addressing the question,… Read More

• March 9, 2021

  America Needs a New Workforce Education System

  William B. Bonvillian, Sanjay E. Sarma

  The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying, working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, the nation is seeing increasing… 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

• February 10, 2022

  Sustaining Sustainable Chemistry

  Joel Tickner, Leah Rubin Shen, Carl Maxwell, Jim Jones, Mary Kirchhoff

  In 2021, after nearly 17 years of effort, Congress enacted the Sustainable Chemistry Research and Development Act as part of the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021. The act… Read More

• Fall 2018

  The Quest for Quality Jobs

  Sanjay E. Sarma, William B. Bonvillian

  The United States lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs—5.8 million positions—between 2000 and 2010. Although the economy has strengthened significantly since then, only about 12% of these jobs have returned. Their disappearance… Read More

• Winter 2022

  Power’s Real Challenges

  Kai N. Lee

  Electricity is a quicksilver element of everyday life. Although essential for many day-to-day activities, power generation is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions; at the same time, electricity is at the… Read More

• November 17, 2022

  Pathways to More Rapidly Reduce Transportation’s Climate Change Impact

  Dave Foster, John Koszewnik, Wallace Wade, Ward Winer

  Current US energy policies are laser-focused on addressing climate change—as they should be. Meanwhile, this summer’s soaring gasoline prices show that US dependence on foreign oil continues to be a significant vulnerability… Read More

• May 26, 2022

  Walmart Coming to You … by Drone

  Tom Burroughs

  The retail giant Walmart is expanding its fledgling drone delivery service, expecting to reach 4 million households in parts of six states by year’s end. Eleanor Nelsen, Adeline Guthrie, and Lee Vinsel… Read More

• Summer 2021

  Everything You’ve Ever Learned

  Isabel Cardenas-Navia, Shalin Jyotishi

  Sofia spent 15 years as an active-duty member of the military. While deployed in Afghanistan and stationed in Georgia and Japan, she was involved in logistics planning and management as well as… Read More