Issues in Science and Technology

On March 8 the Senate passed the America Invents Act by a vote of 95-5. Meanwhile, Rep. Lamar...

More than 21 months after President Obama requested them, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy...

HEADNOTE Instead of a disruptive technology poised to transform the power sector in a decade, expect a more...

The implanted medical device industry was founded in the United States and has been a major economic success...

HEADNOTE In spite of bipartisan support, numerous critical energy initiatives languished in the previous congressional session. The need...

Technology innovation: setting the right policies In "Fighting Innovation Mercantilism" (Issues, Winter 201 1), Stephen Ezell has identified...

After months of congressional debate and delay, President Obama on January 4, 2011, signed major food safety legislation...

HEADNOTE Monitoring the chemical content of the air near chemical plants provides valuable data, but it becomes useful...

Policy analysis should not be merely an academic exercise. The goal is to inform and influence public policy,...

HEADNOTE The rationale for energy policy must be about more than climate change and green energy. The United...

Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, only four months in office, proposed before...

Climate politics The Climate Fix: What Scientists and Politicians Wont Tell You About Global Warming by Roger Pielke,...

Over the past 25 years, female life expectancy at older ages has been rising in the United States...

HEADNOTE The case for linking climate change and national security is robust but imperfect, and today there is...

Green urbamsm Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change by Peter Calthorpe. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2011, 225...

On February 14, the Obama administration proposed a fiscal year (FY) 2012 R&D budget of $147.9 billion, a...

This work by Robert Huff was included in an exhibition of his work at the National Academy of...

Expectations for the 2010 international climate negotiations in Cancun were far more modest than 2009 s Copenhagen conference,...