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Relying on outdated soil quality data to value farmland creates a disincentive for farmers to invest in conserving topsoil.
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Chemical Innovation
How to Catalyze a Safer and More Sustainable Chemical Industry
The chemical industry’s last century is a story of highs and lows—both provide lessons that can be used to design its future.
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The Song Between Worlds
On a future Mars overrun by wealthy tourists, a young explorer ventures out to hear an elusive Martian song vocalized by the long-time residents of the planet. But they quickly run up against what it really means to seek—and share—intangible cultural goods.
Advanced Manufacturing
A Unique Technician-to-Engineer-to-Scientist Progression
How Navajo Tech’s advanced manufacturing program fights brain drain from ancestral lands.
Indigenous Entrepreneurs
Cultivating Mastery in Place
Diné entrepreneurs entwine economic renewal with mutual obligation, providing a model of regional economic development that serves the community.
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Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fashion, Technology explores the rise of futurism in contemporary Indigenous art as a means of envisioning alternative futures and championing Indigenous technologies.
Book Review
A Century of Conflict Over Evolution Education
Published to commemorate the centennial of the Scopes “monkey” trial, a new book examines the legacy of the trial, culminating in a crucial warning about future litigation over the teaching of evolution in the United States.
Real Numbers
The Real Returns on NIH’s Intramural Research
The intramural research program at the National Institutes of Health generates benefits far beyond the property lines of its facilities and laboratories.
Federal Science Policy
What We Don’t Know About Public Perceptions of Science
The Trump administration’s overhaul of federal science policy will impact all Americans. What does the public think about these changes to federal research budgets and policies?
Science Diplomacy
What Happens When the Nuts and Bolts of Science Diplomacy Come Loose?
The United States has focused on preventing the transfer of sensitive technology to adversarial nations rather than on improving its ability to collaborate internationally.
Book Review
Where Are the Moonshots?
Despite alarm bells over threats to American technological supremacy, no national effort has materialized. We have iPhones, Netflix, and ChatGPT, but where are the moonshots? The space programs and Manhattan projects? Alexander Karp, the billionaire cofounder and CEO of the software company Palantir, grapples with this state of affairs in The Technological Republic.
Preparing for the Bioconvergence
Vol. XLI, No. 4, Summer 2025
How can Americans “engage with biotechnology the same way they do with cell phones and computers”? In an interview for the Summer 2025 issue, Senator Todd Young explains why the emerging bioeconomy should be understood as an urgent opportunity as well as a potential military and security vulnerability. As chair of the National Security Commission on the Emerging Bioeconomy, Young is optimistic that both parties are willing to foster the bioindustries of the future in order to create “a more informed, empowered, and resilient society capable of leveraging science and technology to solve a wide range of global challenges.”
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The Fragility of Doing Good
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Advances in science and technology help countries enhance national security, grow their economies, and improve citizens’ quality of life. Research security efforts attempt to prevent access to sensitive research and technology by competitors and bad actors, while keeping fundamental research open and collaborative. Can these efforts keep pace with technological and geopolitical changes?
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How Dual Use Puts Research Under the Microscope
A recent case in Norway demonstrates how dual-use controls can constrict international scientific collaboration without offering commensurate protections.
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Reconsidering Research Security
The United States’ global leadership in research was built on the foundation of substantial government investments in science and technology (S&T) made during World War II. In the subsequent decades, S&T has… Read More
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The Trap of Securitizing Science
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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Science Diplomacy and the Rise of Technopoles
In the three decades after the Cold War ended, science diplomacy became an important component of the foreign policy toolkit. In particular, it became a key tool for responding to global challenges… Read More
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The Song Between Worlds
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What Would Sound Be Like on Mars?
An astronomer responds to Indrapramit Das’ new short story “The Song Between Worlds.”
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Algorithms Could Create an Even Playing Field—if We Insist on It
An expert on algorithmic bias responds to Deji Bryce Olukotun’s “When We Were Patched.”
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Tunnel Fever
On the floor of the Arctic Ocean, an isolated roadside bar buried in a vast network of tunnels is staffed by a claustrophobic waitress who dreams of life above the surface. When a pair of outlaws tries to rob the bar, its patrons and employees are forced to work together to stave them off—pushing the boundaries of survival and trust in extreme environments.
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Resisting Tunnel Vision
To work toward better climate policy and governance, we need to expand our vision of what’s possible.
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