Issues in Science and Technology

U.S. Workers in a Global Job Market: Government Needs to Collect and Analyze Data on the Offshoring of Science and Technology Jobs So That It Can Take Action to Nurture and Encourage Highly Skilled U.S. Workers (Industry Overview)

Is the Smart Grid Really a Smart Idea? A Smart Electrical System Can Bring Social Benefits, But Smaller Customers May Pay Too High a Price. A More Modest Plan, Guided by Government Policy, Would Be Better (Smart GRID)

Forging a New, Bipartisan Environmental Movement (Perspectives) (Report)

Science's Social Effects: We Need to Explore the Possibility of a New Ideal of "Impure" Science, In Which Scientists and Engineers Both Educate and Learn from Others About the Relation Between Science and Society (Perspectives)

The Future of Nuclear Deterrence (Forum) (Viewpoint Essay)

Racing to the Top (The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century) (Book Review)