A former physics teacher says America could lose its technological edge if it doesn’t do a better job of teaching quantum information science – starting in high school.
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The director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy plays a critical role in achieving the president’s science goals. Facilitating cooperation among the dozens of research agencies is key.
The collapse of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico was a result of financial neglect – and was a long time coming.
Martian meteorites allow scientists here on Earth to decode that planet’s geology, more than a decade before the first missions are scheduled to bring rocks back home from Mars.
Grant abstracts with more words, more complex language and more storytelling tend to earn more money – even if that’s not exactly what funders say they’d want.
Setting aside personal hardships for workers who don’t see a paycheck during the shutdown, the research enterprise itself loses out, too. And unlike back pay, this lost time can never be made up.
The American Sociological Association is starting a conversation to include “public communication” – work often largely ignored – in the assessment of a scholar’s contributions. Why does it matter?
The number of women receiving undergraduate degrees in computer science has plummeted by 40% in the last 20 years. How can this be changed? Ask Maria Klawe.
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Assistant Professor in Practice for UTeach Arlington Program, University of Texas at Arlington
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President, Harvey Mudd College
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of the Public Engagement Project, UMass Amherst
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Associate Professor of Communication, Michigan State University
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Professor of Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Igneous Petrology, Planetary Science, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Emeritus Professor of Science and Technology Policy and Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
