For several years, photographer Jamey Stillings has been documenting renewable energy projects. From high in the sky and on ...

Join Issues’ Open Editorial Meeting, “Making Sense of Biosecurity in the Age of AI,” with Edward H. You and Sonia Ben ...

A new publication aims to train young scientists to act responsibly and ethically, be good stewards of public funding and trust, and navigate the broader responsibilities that come with being a ...

The North Carolina Collaboratory is “working proof” of how state-directed research at universities can make publicly funded science accountable to the people of the state. Wilmington, North Carolina, ...

As more communities face threats from rising sea levels and climate-induced flooding, a rich 140-year history of relocation projects offers valuable insights. As communities across the United States ...

In “Escaping AI’s Measurement Trap” (Issues, Summer 2026), Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Fabienne Marco make a compelling case that governance of artificial intelligence faces a problem.

The CHIPS and Science Act advances equity by codifying an underserved group, but more must be done to correct the effects of skewed research funding. The CHIPS and Science Act, which became law in ...

The story of how a small network of forward thinkers used biotechnology, entrepreneurial moxie, government-supported experimentation, and powerful storytelling to transform their state into an agent ...

There is much discussion on how artificial intelligence poses threats to biosecurity; there should be at least as much focus on how AI can expand the solutions. Today’s biosecurity approach is still ...

As robot-human interactions become more commonplace in urban spaces, policymakers can use a diagnostic to find the best existing tools for governance and determine when new ones are needed.

Four years ago, we founded a new kind of scientific organization to build fundamental technologies and accelerate discovery. Almost a dozen launches later, we have an idea of what works—and what doesn ...

American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s (1868–1921) research laid the foundation for modern astronomy’s understanding of the structure and size of the universe. After graduating from Radcliffe ...