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1 month ago | 
issues.org | Vol. XLI |Lisa Margonelli |Lia Halloran |Marcia McNutt
Solving the disconnects between science and society will require much more than good ideas and good intentions—it will require the political will to bring the fragmented institutions of science together. Today’s political environment precludes the science community from making its old pitches to Congress; it will need to break old habits, build new bonds at personal, local, and regional levels, and reconsider the way it works. Editor's Journal Perspectives FeaturesBook Reviews
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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.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
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.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
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.
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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.
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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?
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
issues.org | Ed Finn |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI
Science fiction is one of the best tools we have for staging inclusive, engaging conversations about science and technology policy. How can we make better use of it? Aliens! Killer robots! Spaceships! For a long time, I saw science fiction stories in a fairly conventional way—as a touchstone or a starting point for a conversation about a topic such as artificial intelligence (Terminator or I, Robot) or genetic engineering (Gattaca or Frankenstein).
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
issues.org | Lisa Margonelli |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI
Few Americans (aside from Issues readers) had science and technology policy top of mind when they went to the polls on November 5. Even so, the future of one of the most ambitious science policy agendas in recent memory hung in the balance.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
issues.org | Omar Al-Ubaydli |John List |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI
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 position of French minister of war and became famous for building a series of defensive fortifications along the Franco-German border. The design of the Maginot Line, as it came to be known, was not the result of abstract musings.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
issues.org | Joseph J Fins |Jay Lloyd |Vol. XLI
What researching a biography of the celebrated mid-century physician-humanist reveals about technological capability and human frailty. Back in 1982, as I was preparing to enter Cornell University’s medical school, I was thrilled to learn that the physician- humanist and writer Lewis Thomas (1913–1993) would give us a lecture during our first year. I had read The Lives of a Cell during high school and remembered staring at his photo on the book’s dustcover.
