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Locally focused research investments enable coalitions of scientists and citizens to serve community needs. During the 15 years I spent managing fisheries in Canada and New Zealand, I worked closely ...

Oversight of artificial intelligence is largely built on benchmarks that fail to capture how models have learned to “perform for the test.” A better system would govern through learning and inquiry.

The global research enterprise relies on information infrastructure to power scientific discovery, medical breakthroughs, and evidence-based policymaking. But the data repositories, digital asset ...

Assistive reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization have helped many people have children. Behind many of these births are egg donors, whose experiences remain largely invisible in ...

A year after he left office, President Biden’s industrial policy is widely considered a failure. But the tools his administration developed are still in play and have defied a long-standing consensus ...

Simons Foundation president David Spergel talks about the evolving landscape for science philanthropy, his outlook for the research enterprise, and remaining hopeful in an uncertain time.

Debates over a proposed national data center in the 1960s reveal how anxieties around privacy and digitization led to the shift toward corporate control of personal data. Each morning, like so many ...

Twenty years ago, a landmark court case held that intelligent design cannot be taught in science classrooms. What lessons does it offer for conflicts in education? Both trials anchored the idea that ...

Four years ago, we founded a new kind of scientific organization to build fundamental technologies and accelerate discovery. Almost a dozen launches later, we have an idea of what works—and what doesn ...

The chemical industry’s last century is a story of highs and lows—both provide lessons that can be used to design its future. Over the past century, the chemical industry has become deeply embedded in ...

The United States has focused on preventing the transfer of sensitive technology to adversarial nations rather than on improving its ability to collaborate internationally. One of the first major ...