Policy & Ethics
Doctors, Talk to Your Patients about Guns
Firearm injuries and deaths are a public health crisis, no less than smoking, unhealthy eating and the use of addictive substances
Forum
Policy & Ethics
It’s Wrong to Target Asian-American Scientists for Espionage Prosecution
A reckless antispying campaign against China has caused enormous damage to U.S. citizens
Policy & Ethics
The James Webb Space Telescope Needs to Be Renamed
The successor to the Hubble currently honors a man who acquiesced to homophobic government policies during the 1950s and 1960s
EARTH
Earth Is on Fire
Our planet is burning, both literally and figuratively, because of climate change—and COVID is no excuse to ignore it
Climate
We Need a National Institute of Climate Change and Health
The NIH has a budget of more than $40 billion—but spends a measly $9 million on this looming public health emergency
Policy & Ethics
More Scientists Should Join the Diplomatic Corps
The foreign service could use people with the problem-solving skills typical of STEM Ph.D.s
Conservation
An Ambitious Strategy to Preserve Biodiversity
The so-called 30 by 30 plan would protect 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters from development by 2030
Computing
How Speech-Recognition Software Discriminates against Minority Voices
Until programmers recognize their own internal biases, the software they create will be problematic
Behavior & Society
We Must Confront Anti-Asian Racism in Science
It existed before the pandemic, but COVID-19 has made it worse
Behavior & Society
Fighting Back against the Stigma of Addiction
When health care providers demonize people addicted to drugs or alcohol, it just makes the problem worse
