Vol. XLI

2 months ago | issues.org | Terry F. Yosie |Vol. XLI

In “Transforming How the Environmental Protection Agency Does Science”(Issues, Fall 2024), Terry F. Yosie exclusively promotes the use of One Environment-One Health and systems-based approaches for science. These approaches may sometimes work, but our knowledge is often inadequate to employ them and they are not applicable for every circumstance. EPA’s current approaches to science have been effective and need not be cast aside at this time.

2 months ago | issues.org | Brian Vastag |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

Patient advocates are cautiously optimistic that forthcoming studies will track their concerns and lead to treatments. In 2021, Robert DeRosa sought treatment for crushing fatigue, unexplained pains, loss of teeth, gastrointestinal distress, and other symptoms that had persisted for nearly a year following a COVID-19 infection. His physician, a pulmonologist working at a newly set up long COVID treatment center, told him he was just deconditioned.

2 months ago | issues.org | William B. Bonvillian |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI

The United States will not regain its leadership in manufacturing by doing more of the same. The country must pursue new paradigms to invoke technological surprise and spur leaps in productivity. The weakness of US manufacturing has become both a social and political issue. Supply chain shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic made the true costs of disinvestment in US manufacturing capability evident to American consumers.

Jan 15, 2025 | issues.org | Vol. XLI

Inspired by humanity’s journey into space, artists are creating works that extend beyond Earth. As humanity continues its journey into space, seeking answers far beyond our planet, artists are finding inspiration in the cosmos.

Jan 14, 2025 | issues.org | Vaughan Turekian |Peter D Gluckman |Vol. XLI

As the need to prioritize global science diplomacy intensifies, Vaughan Turekian and Peter Gluckman confront some critical questions: How can science and technology, which are increasingly entangled with the geostrategic and economic ambitions of individual nations, be leveraged as instruments of diplomacy? And within this new geopolitical framework, how can we shift the scientific mindset to focus on broader matters beyond security concerns?