NEUROSECURITY
Mind control, truth serums, and “guilt-free” super soldiers. Experts discuss the past, present, and future of brain research in the military and counterintelligence and the paper back edition of “Mind Wars.”
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
In this week’s science policy news: climate science and allergies, DOI releases new natural gas fracking rules, new data on polar ice melt, a new approach to cyber security, and thoughts about moving clean energy forward.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
In this week’s science and technology policy news: a cyber security bill passes the house while receiving a presidential veto threat, new polling indicates a big majority of Americans support clean energy, and another big oil spill gushed in the arctic.
BIOTECHNOLOGY
The White House today released the long-awaited National Bioeconomy Blueprint, which summarizes emergent trends in biotechnology, and contains five strategic imperatives for government policy moving forward.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief covers the continuing damage from the 2010 BP oil catastrophe, funding levels for federal science functions, and innovations on the horizon in pharmacology and biosensing.
ENERGY INNOVATION
A new report from Third Way compares the technological myopia that bankrupted Kodak for failing to anticipate the shift to digital photography and imaging, to the shortsightedness of U.S. clean energy innovation policy.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief covers new scientific integrity policies in the agencies, a bi-partisan letter to protect intellectual property, and a new bill to streamline small business access to federal services.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science and technology news brief covers the jobs created by NIH research, the recent movement toward “hacktivism,” and blood test patents, and the potential for scopes monkey all over again in Tennessee.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science and technology news brief covers Americans waning optimism about American science, NIH funding levels, a global cyber security conference, and a new study on the likely impacts of the keystone XL pipeline.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
In this week’s science and technology policy news brief, federal agencies plan a simulated cyber attack on NYC, noted astrophysicist and innovation advocate Neil DeGrasse Tyson inspires senators during a Senate committee hearing, and the NIH debuts an online guide to genetic testing.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
In this week’s science policy news brief: the ARPA-E energy innovation summit, a global manhunt for simulated jewel thieves on twitter, NASA network hacking confirmed, and the 9th circuit court of appeals upholds constitutionality of California’s criminal genetic database law.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief looks at the new White House online privacy “Bill of Rights,” pocket-sized genomic testing, the latest in 3-D printing, a new Energy Department clean tech research initiative, and more.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This weeks science policy news covers the FY 2013 science budget, progress on new federal scientific integrity guidelines, conflict over cyber security legislation, google’s alleged illegal tracking, and the unfolding of “denier-gate.”
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief covers the White House Science Fair, new Obama administration science education initiatives, the resilience of green jobs to recession, a new stem cell therapy for broken bones, and more.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This weeks science policy news: we have less natural gas than we thought; Google responds to personal information kerfuffle; what’s in store for stem cells in 2012; and more.
INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
A new series of policy reports from Science Progress and the Center for American Progress outline key steps the president and Congress can take to reinvest in the building blocks of American innovation and economic competitiveness.
INNOVATION
Measures to simplify and strengthen the corporate R&D tax credit can help make the most of the spillover benefits of innovation and enhance economic competitiveness.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This weeks science policy news: Congress reauthorizes key small business technology programs, NASA releases scientific integrity framework, and traces of the Higgs Boson tantalize researchers.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
A spate of new federal and legislative initiatives seek to kick-start entrepreneurship and innovation, a Mars rover discovers evidence of a watery past, and the morning after pill debate heats up.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
A new effort to map global life science innovation clusters, a piece of Obama’s jobs agenda makes progress, and delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in South Africa for global climate change talks.
Science Progress and American Progress's Doing What Works project teamed up to produce a set of policy proposals that the Obama administration and Congress can adopt to reinvest in the building blocks of American science, innovation, and economic competitiveness. Read the overview of the five reports.
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