Science Funding & Policy

How to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us: toward a more democratic int...

Countless books, news reports, and opinion pieces have announced the impending arrival of artificial intelligence, with most claiming that it will ...

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Some of the largest quantities of data produced today occur as the result of experiments...

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use. Although the nature and politic...

A book on queer themes and science communication is timely, if not well overdue. LGBTIQA+ people have unique contributions to make and issues to ...

Engineers know what they mean by the word technology. They mean the things engineers conceive, design, build, and deploy. But what does the word gl...

Most countries in the world use the SI (Système International, also known as the metric system) units for radiation measurements in commercial and ...

Science and art were not always two separate entities. Historically, times of great scientific progress occurred during profound movements in art, ...

In the face of so many daunting near-term challenges, U.S. government and industry are letting the crucial strategic issues of U.S. competitiveness...

Innovation has been a major engine of American economic and societal progress. It has increased per capita income more than sevenfold since the 19t...

Convergence of the life sciences with fields including physical, chemical, mathematical, computational, engineering, and social sciences is a key s...

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology - has...

The United States has long recognized that the nation's prosperity and security depend on how we address challenges of disasters, poverty, famine, ...

Recognized as early as 1948, the right to benefit from progress in science and its applications (known more succinctly as the right to science) has...

The workshop was convened to explore the region's approach to urban sustainability, with an emphasis on building the evidence base upon which new p...

On May 23, 2012, the Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding convened a workshop at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) to inv...

On June 12-14, 2012, the Board on Global Science and Technology held an international, multidisciplinary workshop in Washington, D.C., to explore t...

The U.S. population is more than 80 percent urban. Recognizing that many metropolitan areas in the United States have been experimenting with vario...

Women in the United States and Kuwait have made advances as researchers and leaders in science, engineering, and medical disciplines, yet challenge...

This innovative interdisciplinary collection confronts the worldwide challenge of women's under-representation in science through an interrogation ...

Current universities are equipped with communication, marketing and PR departments. They are also furnished with research integrity officers and fo...

This book provides a powerful diagnosis of why the global governance of science struggles in the face of emerging powers. Through unpacking critica...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platfo...

A book on queer themes and science communication is timely, if not well overdue. LGBTIQA+ people have unique contributions to make and issues to ...

Understanding the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment and their implications requires a foundation of integrated...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...