Technological innovation takes center stage at Science Progress this week with the release of our third major report on regional innovation clusters. “Silos of Small Beer,” by Maryann Feldman and Lauren Lanahan, gives a detailed case study of technology innovation [...]
INNOVATION
Older industrial areas such as Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron, and Youngstown are places with substantial infrastructure and a proud industrial heritage that are struggling to redefine themselves in the global economy. Entrepreneurship and innovation are the most viable strategies for the economic future of the region.
Science Communication
Despite Fox News’s attempts to stir up controversy over the terminology of global warming, academics have been touting the more accurate term “global climate disruption” for years.
Science in Society
The House version of The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 includes a section clarifying and emphasizing NSF’s Broader Impacts Merit Review Criterion. That’s a good thing.
LIFE SCIENCES
Embryonic stem cell researcher Jeanne Lorring, Ph.D. updates us on the judicially imposed ban on embryonic stem cell research, and sends a special invitation to the judge responsible.
In the past two weeks, Editor-In-Chief Jonathan D. Moreno and regular contributor Jeanne F. Loring have continued to cover the implications of the August 23 federal embryonic stem cell research funding ban, noting the impacts that it will have on [...]
Bioethics
Arthur Caplan reviews Worst Case Bioethics, and advances the case for a national philosophy of medicine for bioethics.
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Why what you think you know about agricultural biotechnology may be wrong.
LIFE SCIENCES
A ruling barring NIH funds from use in embryonic stem cell research will hurt American research efforts and send cutting-edge biotechnology jobs to Asia.
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