Artificial intelligence is disrupting the relationships that produce knowledge and transforming it into “content.” ...
Dwaipayan Banerjee's recent book explores how the forces of global politics and capitalism shaped India’s technological revolution.
Now is the time to pilot a knowledge commons that allows communities to share data and policy advocacy information.
American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s research laid the foundation for our understanding of the structure and size of the universe.
By using a few public policy levers, the federal government can help increase public data use in targeted ways.
Community colleges are working to democratize AI education and meet the need for AI-fluent workers in the labor force.
Communities are increasingly unsatisfied with blanket promises of jobs and economic growth when considering the siting of data centers nearby. Unlike the factories of past industrial eras, data ...
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs are easy to underestimate. They make up a fraction—just 3.65%—of the total federal research and ...
In “A New Science Diplomacy in Latin America Embeds Knowledge in Public Institutions” (Issues, Spring 2026), Gabriela Gomes Coelho Ferreira and Claudia Alarcón López offer an intriguing reframing of ...
A lack of standardized infrastructure data is holding back efforts to modernize the nation’s electrical grid. Maintaining the electrical grid is one of the central challenges of our time. The ...
If she didn’t focus on the building plans, Tamara would think about her mother. She would think she was fine, zooming in on a misspelled text one of her contractors sent, then she’d remember her ...
As Lars Erik Schönander makes clear in “Reauthorizing the Small Business Innovation Research Program Isn’t Enough” (Issues, Spring 2026), SBIR is massively improved. But it still fails to adequately ...