The State of the Science | Fall 2024 https://issues.org/issue/41-1/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:33:06 +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 The State of the Science | Fall 2024 https://issues.org/issue/41-1/ 32 32 Imo Nse Imeh: Monuments to Our Skies https://issues.org/monuments-to-our-skies-imeh/ https://issues.org/monuments-to-our-skies-imeh/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:13:14 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44523 Monuments to Our Skies grew out of Nigerian American artist and scholar Imo Nse Imeh’s deep engagement with questions of faith, trust, belief, and redemption in Black communities.

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]]> https://issues.org/monuments-to-our-skies-imeh/feed/ 0 Innovations for Medical Progress https://issues.org/innovations-for-medical-progress-alvarez-gill-forum/ https://issues.org/innovations-for-medical-progress-alvarez-gill-forum/#respond Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44517 In “Medicine Means More Than Molecules” (Issues, Summer 2024), Sindy Escobar Alvarez and Sam Gill argue for the need to broaden investments in science beyond biomedical research. This is not… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/innovations-for-medical-progress-alvarez-gill-forum/feed/ 0 Lessons From Baltimore for Participatory Research https://issues.org/baltimore-participatory-neuroscience-research-hathaway/ https://issues.org/baltimore-participatory-neuroscience-research-hathaway/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43599 Alvin Hathaway Sr. explains what Baltimore’s African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative needed to gain insight, influence, and credibility.

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]]> https://issues.org/baltimore-participatory-neuroscience-research-hathaway/feed/ 0 When Oil and Gas Companies Go to School https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/ https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/#respond Wed, 11 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43615 Funding for university research programs by the oil and gas (O&G) industry is increasingly controversial in the United States. A 2023 Guardian article, for instance, described student “unease” upon learning that an… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/oil-gas-companies-research-ethics-lieuwen/feed/ 0 Making Impact Count https://issues.org/making-impact-count-guston-forum/ https://issues.org/making-impact-count-guston-forum/#respond Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44430 In “What We Talk About When We Talk About Impact” (Issues, Summer 2024), David H. Guston discusses the challenges in defining, measuring, capturing, and demonstrating the impacts associated with research… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/making-impact-count-guston-forum/feed/ 0 The Trap of Securitizing Science https://issues.org/securitizing-science-shih-wagner/ https://issues.org/securitizing-science-shih-wagner/#respond Mon, 09 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43581 In recent years, science and technology have emerged as critical domains reshaping the landscape of international relations and national security. In particular, the United States and the European Union have sought to… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/securitizing-science-shih-wagner/feed/ 0 Will It Scale? https://issues.org/scaling-option-c-al-ubaydli-list/ https://issues.org/scaling-option-c-al-ubaydli-list/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43618 During the bloodiest battles of the First World War, a young French sergeant named André Maginot was injured in the fighting, earning him a medal for valor. He later rose to the… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/scaling-option-c-al-ubaydli-list/feed/ 2 How Federal Science Agencies Innovate in the Public Interest https://issues.org/national-cancer-institute-science-agencies-innovate-aviles/ https://issues.org/national-cancer-institute-science-agencies-innovate-aviles/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43597 Like many scholars of federal science policy, I awaited the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo with some trepidation. When it came down on June 28, 2024, the decision… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/national-cancer-institute-science-agencies-innovate-aviles/feed/ 0 Sound Therapy https://issues.org/music-and-mind-review-fitzpatrick/ https://issues.org/music-and-mind-review-fitzpatrick/#respond Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43576 If given the choice, I will always choose the quiet of nature over the jangle of artificial sounds. Imagine my shock, then, when I developed tinnitus. The onset of this constant sound—a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/music-and-mind-review-fitzpatrick/feed/ 0 Cross-Border Collaborations https://issues.org/cross-border-collaborations-forum/ https://issues.org/cross-border-collaborations-forum/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44342 In “A Binational Journey Toward Sustainability” (Issues, Summer 2024), Christopher A. Scott, Constantino Macías Garcia, Natalia Martínez-Tagüeña, Thomas F. Thornton, and Heather Kreidler highlight the critical role of partnerships in… Read More

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