The climate/security nexus; A national energy plan; A better process for new medical devices; Moving to the smart grid; Improve chemical exposure standards; More public energy R&D; Helpful lessons from the space race.
Budget bill cuts R&D spending; Court rules in favor of funding for human embryonic stem cell research; FDA’s medical device approval process scrutinized at Senate hearing; Hydraulic fracturing debated in House; Patent reform bill moves ahead; Science and technology in brief.
Ismail Serageldin Science and the Arab Spring
William J. Parton Stephen J. Del Grosso Ernie Marx Amy L. Swan Agriculture’s Role in Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Sainath Suryanarayanan Daniel Lee Kleinman Disappearing Bees and Reluctant Regulators
Life of Feynman (Review of Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science)
The human future (Review of Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100)
Floor cover medallion for the great hall of the National Academy of Sciences
Ben S. Bernanke
Promoting Research and Development: The Government’s Role
Jacques S. Gansler
Solving the Nation’s Security Affordability Problem
Diane Auer Jones
Apprenticeships: Back to the Future
Tobin L. Smith Josh Trapani Anthony Decrappeo David Kennedy
Reforming Regulation of Research Universities
Patrick Gonzalez
Science for Natural Resource Management under Climate Change
Peter C. Kahn Thomas Molnar Gengyun G. Zhang C. Reed Funk
Investing in Perennial Crops to Sustainably Feed the World
Ross Carper Sonja Schmid
The Little Reactor that Could?
