Science, the Endless Frontier at 75 Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/36-2/ The best minds on the most important topics. Mon, 01 Aug 2022 17:45:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Science, the Endless Frontier at 75 Archives | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/issue/36-2/ 32 32 The US Shouldn’t Abandon the Nuclear Energy Market https://issues.org/the-us-shouldnt-abandon-the-nuclear-energy-market/ https://issues.org/the-us-shouldnt-abandon-the-nuclear-energy-market/#respond Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22184 As a pioneer in the nuclear power sector, the
United States shaped the international regulatory regime that established norms
and agreements to promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy. However, US
competitiveness… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/the-us-shouldnt-abandon-the-nuclear-energy-market/feed/ 0 A Taste of the Future https://issues.org/a-taste-of-the-future/ https://issues.org/a-taste-of-the-future/#respond Mon, 09 Mar 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22208 “The main way that most people will experience
climate change is through its impact on food—what they eat, how it’s grown, the
price they pay for it, and the availability and choice… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/a-taste-of-the-future/feed/ 0 License and Registration, Please https://issues.org/license-and-registration-please/ https://issues.org/license-and-registration-please/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2020 14:48:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22205 In 2015, Texas state trooper Brian Encinia ordered
28-year-old Sandra Bland out of her vehicle after pulling her over for
failure to signal a lane change. He then forcefully restrained her and… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/license-and-registration-please/feed/ 0 Chinese Science Policy at a Crossroads https://issues.org/chinese-science-policy-at-a-crossroads/ https://issues.org/chinese-science-policy-at-a-crossroads/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22194 The sharp deterioration of United States-China
relations over the past 18 months has raised a series of new challenges for
Chinese scientific development. What started out as trade friction has evolved
into… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/chinese-science-policy-at-a-crossroads/feed/ 0 China and 5G https://issues.org/china-and-5g/ https://issues.org/china-and-5g/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22192 The Chinese Communist Party is determined to
dominate the global digital marketplace. Chinese companies with virtually
unlimited access to capital for the development of the next generation of
connectivity are going head-to-head… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/china-and-5g/feed/ 0 Gene Drives: New and Improved https://issues.org/gene-drives/ https://issues.org/gene-drives/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22198 It is now more than three years since the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released their influential report Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research … Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/gene-drives/feed/ 0 Neural Glitch https://issues.org/klingemann-neural-glitch/ https://issues.org/klingemann-neural-glitch/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22577 Mario Klingemann, 2018

Mario Klingemann describes himself as “an artist and a
skeptic with a curious mind.” His work spans and incorporates a wide range of
tools and technologies, including neural networks… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/klingemann-neural-glitch/feed/ 0 Creating Ethical Engineers https://issues.org/creating-ethical-engineers/ https://issues.org/creating-ethical-engineers/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22213 Although I am not an engineer, my appointment
as professor of technology and policy is in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s School of Engineering. As a scientist trained in economics and the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/creating-ethical-engineers/feed/ 0 Will Precision Medicine Lead to a Healthier Population? https://issues.org/precision-medicine/ https://issues.org/precision-medicine/#respond Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22196 Human health and biomedical science have been
transformed in tandem over the past two centuries. From around 1850 to 1920,
better nutrition and prevention of epidemic infections were the main
contributors to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/precision-medicine/feed/ 0 Catastrophic Myopia https://issues.org/catastrophic-myopia/ https://issues.org/catastrophic-myopia/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=22202 There’s a lot of climate change catastrophe in
bookstores these days.

Falter, by Bill McKibben. Losing Earth, by Nathaniel Rich. The Uninhabitable Earth, by David Wallace-Wells. Three makes a… Read More

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