Federal R&D: More balanced; support needed; Better rules for biotech research; Tighter cybersecurity; Risks of new nukes; No nonlethal chemical weapons; Computer professionals in Africa; GM crop controversies; Sign the Mine Ban Treaty; Saving scientific advice.

Kevin Finneran
Prime Time Science.

Big R&D spending increases slated for defense, homeland security; DOE to compete Los Alamos National Laboratory contract; White House proposes standardizing peer review process; Moderate Republicans ask Bush to revise stem cell policy; Congress considers ethical, social impact of nanotechnology research.

Robert Frodeman
Carl Mitcham
Roger Pielke, Jr.
Humanities for Policy—and a Policy for the Humanities

University-Related Research Parks.

New Economy Lite (Review of The New Economy: What It Is, How It Happened, and Why It Is Likely to Last)

End of the world? (Review of Our Final Hour: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind’s Future in this Century, On Earth and Beyond)

President Kennedy at NAS Centennial.

Jerry F. Franklin
James K. Agee

Forging a Science-Based National Forest Fire Policy

Charles D. Ferguson
Joel O. Lubenau

Securing U.S. Radioactive Sources

Nancy Rabalais

Oil in the Sea