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
Donald Kennedy Richard A. Merrill
Assessing Forensic Science
D. Michael Risinger Michael J. Saks
A House with No Foundation
David L. Faigman Stephen E. Fienberg Paul C. Stern
The Limits of the Polygraph
Jennifer L. Mnookin
Fingerprints: Not a Gold Standard
Paul C. Giannelli
Crime Labs Need Improvement