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Articles in Science & Nature tagged with Technology

On the fate of Karl Popper’s idea of falsification.

Michael D. Gordin

As more and more doctors awaken to the political determinants of health, the U.S. medical profession needs a deeper vision for the ethical meanings of care.

Eric Reinhart

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

Michelle Morse, Bram Wispelwey
A new “solar homesteading law” could harness rays of sun that fall on roofs and parking lots in cities and advance the aims of energy democracy.
David McDermott Hughes
Home DNA ancestry kits include no ancestors, instead comparing customers to other present-day people based on assumptions about race and ethnicity. So what are they actually selling?
Duana Fullwiley
As Big Data tools reshape health care, biased datasets and unaccountable algorithms threaten to further disempower patients.
Rachel Thomas

For a century, critics of all political stripes have challenged the role of science in society. Repairing distrust today requires confronting those arguments head on.

Andrew Jewett
COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black communities is just one of many respiratory inequities shaped by systemic racism.
Adam Gaffney

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Diplomacy isn’t enough. To decarbonize the economy, we must integrate bottom-up, local experimentation with top-down, global cooperation.

David G. Victor, Charles Sabel

We must reimagine how to make life-saving vaccines available to everyone.

Ravi Gupta

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