Program managers, spread across the science agencies, have become an essential part of the engine of successful scientific ...

Policymakers must rewrite science’s Cold War-era social contract by being honest about who benefits from R&D and achieving ...

Understanding how CERN has made its work credible can help Europe build trustworthy infrastructure for artificial ...

The artist’s fascination with flight extended to questions of ingenuity, freedom, technological progress, and the ...

Nearly 80 years ago, a report appeared on President Harry Truman’s desk requesting a 1,400% increase in federal funding for educational institutions, arguing for “free exercise of initiative” rather ...

DeRionne Pollard, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, makes the case for community colleges as essential institutions that help individuals prosper, anchor civic life, ...

In “Escaping AI’s Measurement Trap” (Issues, Summer 2026), Urs Gasser, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Fabienne Marco make a compelling case that governance of artificial intelligence faces a problem.

American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s (1868–1921) research laid the foundation for modern astronomy’s understanding of the structure and size of the universe. After graduating from Radcliffe ...

In my work supporting education agencies with their data governance, I talk to staff members at statewide longitudinal data systems (SLDSs) every day about their barriers to data and technology ...

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.

With apologies to The Simpsons news anchor Kent Brockman: I, for one, welcome our new AI research overlords. Or maybe not so much. Catherine Aiken, Steph Batalis, and Greg Tananbaum, in “Charting a ...