Tag: Science and Technology

The passage of the administration’s Inflation Reduction Act should be celebrated, but without explicit corporate guardrails it’s doomed.

How science works.

Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.

In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.

Twenty-five years of neoliberal political economy are to blame for today's regime of surveillance advertising, and only public policy can undo it.

Inspired by the rediscovery of Shackleton's HMS Endurance, we revisit two centuries of lessons in leadership from getting trapped in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.

Younger voices are using technology to respond to the needs of marginalized communities and nurture Black healing and liberation.

Tinder and OkCupid should drop the gender binary. Doing so would help all users—queer and straight alike.

Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.

Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.

Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.

Corporate restructurings are not a cure-all, but they would tilt the balance of power toward ordinary Americans.

To meet the challenge of enduring spread in the years to come, we must prioritize primary care and community health over the profit-driven status quo.

New tools and technology policy might help, but politics come first.

A sweeping new history of humanity upends the story of civilization, inviting us to imagine how our own societies could be radically different.

Physicians have been fighting for health justice for decades. To succeed, we need practical models for collectively remaking our systems of care.

Beyond carbon emissions and safety, the debate must also confront how the choices we make now constrain the kind of world we can build in the future.

Our mastery over microbes is only a few decades old. It is also far more precarious than we imagine.

Concerns about long-term side effects have helped fuel vaccine hesitancy. An immunologist explains why we can be confident in vaccine safety.

If we want to address vaccine hesitancy in the health care system, we must treat its lowest paid workers better.