Science & Technology

Retaining the U.S. advantage needs funding, not xenophobia.

Biometrics have crept into humanitarian aid, but the systems may disadvantage women who need help most.

To preserve the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency, the United States can’t let China get ahead on cryptocurrency.

The network has plenty of other security weaknesses, including ones the United States doesn’t want to fix since they help its own surveillance efforts.

Its next chapter will be fought through export and import controls, investment restrictions, and sanctions—and the United States should prepare itself now.

Without one, it risks missing out on all the technology’s benefits—and falling behind rivals such as China.

And by treating it like one, the United States could miss out on its real potential.

The imperiled birth—and slow decline—of Golden Rice.

Beijing is a natural partner to fast and cheap development, but Riyadh should be wary of alienating its allies.

Washington needs to do more to foster and protect the country’s innovation ecosystem.

The Chinese are massively investing in AI research and tech, while the Trump administration is cutting federal programs wholesale.

Failing to appoint scientific advisors to the president is putting national security at risk.

A super-powered micro-animal, a hacker-proof grid, and more.

Federal agents can't get access to emails stored overseas, court rules.

A naval laser light show, a cactus-inspired hydrogen car, and a new way to keep space clean.

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Ory Okolloh discuss the continent's brain drain and debate the best ways to keep talent at home.

The case for teaching arts in the Digital Age.

It’s time to stop championing the "lonely heroes" of innovation like Apple, Google, and Amazon and rally around the ingenuity of the world’s waning industrial communities.

2015 Global Thinkers Zainab Ghadiyali, Erin Summers, and Nina Tandon debate the meaning—and reach—of diversity in the sciences.