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• January 30, 2026

  Deficiency Agent

  How will artificial intelligence transform warfare? Andrew Liptak’s story brings us to the front lines to see how a glitchy combat AI deals with the tricky task of balancing the demands of a mission with the unpredictability of the battlefield.

• November 14, 2025

  Yellow

  If there were an app that estimated the risk of every decision, would you use it? B. Pladek’s short story “Yellow” explores how data changes the way we think about risk—and what happens when that data is manipulated.

• May 14, 2025

  How Did Science Become So Polarizing?

  For most of the past half century, Americans of both parties expressed high levels of trust in science, coinciding with bipartisan support for investment in scientific research. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, however, … Read More

• April 11, 2025

  The Minnesota Diet

  In a future city complete with vertical farms, rooftop gardens, and no carbon footprint, the city’s survival still depends on regular food deliveries from the outside. What happens when those deliveries suddenly stop showing up?

• November 15, 2024

  Little Assistance

  From the Future Tense Fiction archives: Stephen Harrison’s story follows the first judge on the Moon as he tries to solve a complex liability dispute between NASA and a contractor.

• May 21, 2024

  A Human Rights Framework for AI Research Worthy of Public Trust

  Mary L. Gray

  In 2014, researchers at Cornell University and Facebook joined forces for an experiment. They wanted to find out whether emotional contagion occurs on social media—whether the expressions of emotion showing up in… Read More

• June 13, 2023

  Federal Research Funding: Is There a Fairer Way to Share the Pie?

  Fewer than 7% of research-active institutions receive more than half of all federal funds for university research and development. Recently, multiple efforts have attempted to spread federal research funding more evenly, with … Read More

• January 10, 2023

  Episode 24: Collaborations on Ice

  Cy Keener, Ignatius Rigor, JD Talasek

  How can scientific data be made more tangible, visceral, and experiential? Collaboration! Over the course of a four-year project, Arctic Ice: A Visual Archive, artist Cy Keener, landscape researcher Justine … Read More

• Summer 2022

  Architectures of Participation

  Gerald Berk, Annalee Saxenian

  Silicon Valley’s dynamism during the final three decades of the twentieth century highlighted the singular importance of social and professional networks to innovation. Since that time, contemporary and historical case studies have corroborated the link between networks… Read More

• Winter 2020

  A Taste of the Future

  Kai N. Lee

  “The main way that most people will experience climate change is through its impact on food—what they eat, how it’s grown, the price they pay for it, and the availability and choice… Read More

• January 29, 2020

  Misinformation Rampant on New Virus

  Tom Burroughs

  The newly discovered coronavirus that causes a potentially deadly pneumonia-like illness and is spreading rapidly in China has now moved into the United States, prompting a parallel outbreak of misinformation spread via… Read More

• Summer 2019

  Deciding the Facebook Question

  Clarke Cooper

  Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google: the FAANGs. We have one big fat reason for loving them: they provide us with overpowering convenience. Thanks to the FAANGs, just choosing to do something is… Read More

• Fall 2017

  A Silicon Valley Catechism

  Frank Pasquale

  For over a decade, business books have exhorted managers to be “supercrunchers”—numbers-obsessed quantifiers, quick to make important decisions as “data driven” as possible. There is an almost evangelical quality to this work,… Read More

• Spring 2016

  Transforming the Active Orientation

  Amitai Etzioni

  Our ambitions are high. We have a long list of desiderata that, in effect, entail re-engineering much of the physical and social world around us, even the self. We Americans are keen… Read More

• November 12, 2013

  Retailer Information

  Issues in Science and Technology is for sale in a variety of stores. If you are a retailer, contact any of our distributors below to place orders. ARMADILLO DISTRIBUTORS 7310 S. La… Read More

• Summer 2015

  The Pauling-Teller Debate: A Tangle of Expertise and Values

  Melinda Gormley, Melissae Fellet

  This historic debate from the height of the Cold War provides a refreshing perspective on science and politics. By 1958, Americans had been living under threat of nuclear attack for more than… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Forum – Winter 2015

  William B. Bonvillian, Alan I. Leshner, Fanta Aw, Edward Alden, Diane Ravitch, Sarah A. Lewis, Robert Nerem, Kate Konschnik, Byron Newberry, Glen Miller, Deborah G. Johnson, Darryl Farber, Roel Snieder, Peter Kroes

  Immigration reform In “Streamlining the Visa Immigration Systems for Scientists and Engineers” (Issues, Fall 2014), Albert H. Teich articulates very well many of the arguments for making the U.S. visa… Read More

• Fall 2014

  Forum – Fall 2014

  Peter C. Frumhoff, Jim Presswood, Armond Cohen

  Climate deadlock In “Breaking the Climate Deadlock” (Issues, Summer 2014), David Garman, Kerry Emanuel, and Bruce Phillips present a thoughtful proposal for greatly expanded public- and private-sector R&D aimed at… Read More

• Fall 2012

  The Climate Struggle Heats Up

  Martin W. Lewis

  In The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, Michael E. Mann offers a personal assessment of the controversies and shenanigans that have surrounded the issue of global warming during the past… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Reducing Barriers to Online Access for People with Disabilities

  Jonathan Lazar, Paul Jaeger

  As ever more education, employment, communication, entertainment, civic participation, and government functions move primarily or exclusively online, the high levels of inaccessibility on the Web and in Internet-enabled mobile technologies threaten to… Read More

• Spring 2011

  Forum – Spring 2011

  Kenneth P. Green, Victor Van Lint, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Lenny Mendonca, Michael P. Ryan, Arnold M. Lund, Annuska Perkins, Susanna Hornig Priest, Matthew E. Kahn

  Technology innovation: setting the right policies In “Fighting Innovation Mercantilism” (Issues, Winter 2011), Stephen Ezell has identified a truly vexing problem: the proclivity of important countries (notably China) to… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Time for Climate Plan B

  William B. Bonvillian

  Policymakers in the United States and elsewhere have assumed for 15 years that putting a price on carbon would be an effective strategy for addressing climate change. Nations would price carbon emissions,… Read More

• Fall 2011

  Green Urban Revival

  Martin W. Lewis

  In The Agile City, James S. Russell offers a blueprint for restructuring the settlement system of the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Russell wants… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Costly water

  Martin W. Lewis

  Obsession may not be the best word to describe Americans’ attitude toward bottled water. Few people are preoccupied with the product; many purchase it without a second thought. But therein lies the… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Contesting climate

  Martin W. Lewis

  According to its dust jacket, The Climate War is “an epic tale of an American civil war.” Eric Pooley is said to “do for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents.”… Read More

• Summer 2010

  Reassessing Conservation Goals in a Changing Climate

  Alejandro E. Camacho, Holly Doremus, Jason S. McLachlan, Ben A. Minteer

  Climate change poses a hierarchy of significant challenges for conservation policy. First, the sheer scale of climate change calls for conservation efforts to be vastly stepped up. Second, the pace and extent… Read More

• Winter 2009

  Restoring and Protecting Coastal Louisiana

  Donald F. Boesch, Gerald E. Galloway, Robert R. Twilley

  The challenges facing the Gulf Coast reflect a national inability to come to grips with the need to deal with neglected infrastructure, both natural and built. The sustainability of coastal Louisiana is… Read More

• Fall 2006

  The False Promise of the Scientist ex Machina

  Kevin Finneran

  In a scene in the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen is waiting in line to enter a movie and becomes disgusted with a guy near him in the line who is… Read More

• Fall 2006

  Archives – Fall 2006

  Birdwing Butterfly from Papua New Guinea This image of a birdwing butterfly, included in the National Academies’ permanent art collection, is part of Rosamond Purcell’s larger body of work in which she… Read More

• Summer 2006

  Forum – Summer 2006

  Lewis M. Branscomb, Denis Fred Simon, James Goodby, Frank Barnaby, Lincoln Wolfenstein, Muhammad Sahimi, Daniel D. Benetti, Tim Eichenberg, George H. Leonard, David A. Mongillo, John Horsley, Robert W. Poole Jr., Ron Utt, Harold Linnenkohl, Lori A. Perine, Buford A. Crites

  Nuclear amnesia Jack Mendelsohn is certainly right about “nuclear amnesia” (“Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons,” Issues, Spring 2006). Even in official administration documents, there is a rather casual attitude about the possibility… Read More