Over the last four decades, this magazine has hosted many articles discussing science’s “social contract” and how it should be conceived. In 1988, the physicist Harvey Brooks articulated the contract ...

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

The data ecosystem of community colleges is fragmented, and the gaps constrain researchers’ abilities to measure community ...

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

In the decades after World War II, nurse educators built a science of nursing. Their work underpins the profession as it is practiced today—and offers insights for other disciplines into how knowledge ...

With the growth of “ARPA-everything,” it’s time to start testing predictions about what makes the model succeed. That means being able to understand when and why it doesn’t. When I was appointed by ...

Middle-skill jobs are key for the nation and its workforce. Here is where things stand today and projections for future improvements. Globalization and advances in science and technology are ...

I have spent considerable time with military leaders discussing some hard questions about artificial intelligence: How will it change the way wars are fought? The way weapons are used? Or, very ...

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

Computer scientist and “godmother of AI” Fei-Fei Li explains why artificial intelligence and public life are at an inflection point—and contemplates how to unleash positive changes while mitigating ...

Even for scientists, policy decisions entail much more than science. In science policy circles, it’s a commonplace that scientists need to be better communicators. They need to be able to explain ...