Under the dome My quixotic campaign for Congress Why I abandoned the tenure track at MIT to run in California’s Fourth District. And what I learned along the way. by Regina Bateson 2018-12-19T00:00:00-05:00
Connectivity Congress Takes Blockchain 101 The heads of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus want their colleagues to know the technology has many uses besides currency. by Mike Orcutt 2017-03-15T00:00:00-04:00
Sustainable Energy Will ARPA-E Survive Trump’s Looming Budget Cuts? At what may be the agency’s final summit, speakers and attendees argue that federal support for energy research is critical for job creation. by James Temple 2017-03-01T07:00:00-05:00
Rewriting Life The Unintended Consequence of Congress’s Ban on Designer Babies The testing of new therapies to prevent a debilitating mitochondrial genetic disease in babies has hit a dead end. by Mike Orcutt 2016-08-26T00:00:00-04:00
Connectivity One for the History Books: Microsoft Is Apple’s Greatest Ally Against the FBI Apple’s standoff with the FBI shows that the U.S. urgently needs new laws setting limits on what investigators can demand of tech companies, says Microsoft’s president. by Tom Simonite 2016-03-01T16:28:00-05:00
Intelligent Machines The Growth Industry Helping Governments Hack Terrorists, Criminals—and Political Opponents Government agencies and oppressive regimes are snapping up software that makes it easy to hack your phone or computer. These new powers could make us all less safe. by Joseph Cox 2015-12-10T11:00:00-05:00
Connectivity Mobile Call Logs Can Reveal a Lot to the NSA Research shows how much the NSA could glean from call records, and why efforts to downplay the significance of such metadata are misleading. by Jessica Leber 2013-06-18T13:08:45-04:00
Business Impact R&D Faces Its Own Fiscal Cliff The sequester means across-the-board cuts to federal R&D and, barring a grand budget bargain, anemic research budgets in the years ahead. by Martin LaMonica 2013-02-28T17:52:54-05:00
Sustainable Energy Viewing Federal Research Spending An interactive chart shows how little the U.S. spends on R&D. by Kevin Bullis 2011-02-24T00:00:00-05:00
Business Impact NASA's Blueprint for New Space Technologies The agency announced its latest revision but budget uncertainties in the U.S. Congress make plans moving targets. by Stephen Cass 2010-09-02T00:00:00-04:00