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NASA’s Busiest Year in Decades – An Astronomer Sums up the Dizzying Array of Missions in 2022
2022 was a giant step for NASA.
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China Now Publishes More High-Quality Science Than Any Other Nation
COMMENTARY | Should the U.S. be worried?
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Ransomware and resilience
It's not how hard you get hit, an industry expert argues, but how quickly you get back up.
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Webb Telescope Reveals Super Early Milky Way-Like Galaxies
COMMENTARY | New images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveal for the first time galaxies with stellar bars at a time when the universe was a mere 25% of its present age.
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Lessons from Taiwan's rise to dominate the computer chip industry
Steve Kelman notes that an assertive industrial policy can yield big wins for governments willing to invest and manage their investments.
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Beyond Section 230: A Pair of Social Media Experts Describes How to Bring Transparency and Accountability to the Industry
COMMENTARY | We think change in Section 230 is coming – and we believe that it is long overdue.
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Can Machine Learning Predict the Next Big Disaster?
A new study shows how machine learning could predict rare disastrous events, like earthquakes or pandemics.
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Nanomedicines for Various Diseases are in Development–But Research Facilities Produce Vastly Inconsistent Results on How the Body Will React to Them
The field still faces one major roadblock.
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Probe Could Find Whether Saturn's Moon Hosts Life
Recent discoveries indicate the moon's surface has massive saltwater oceans.
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Changing Government Engagement in 2023
Four trends are showing improvements in the daily work of government employees.
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Budget for All: What a Way to Celebrate the Holidays
Congress passed its whole-of-government funding package just before the end of the year.
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5 Things Holding Innovation Back at the IRS
Believe it or not, the IRS has some budget and the will to modernize in the interest of public service.
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Young Men Have Higher Risk of Gun Death in Some US Cities Than in War
Some US cities are more dangerous than warzones, according to new research.
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Let's not cancel TikTok
Steve Kelman argues that First Amendment rights come ahead of vaguely articulated national security concerns when it comes to the China-owned social media app.
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Did He Jiankui ‘Make People Better’? Documentary Spurs a New Look at the Case of the First Gene-edited Babies
Gene editing is now a real thing.
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Improving CX through data and testing
We must gauge the scale and nature of the challenges we're facing before we charge headlong into trying to solve them and risk investing time, effort and public money in the wrong places.
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Social Media Monitoring in the Security Clearance Process
What – if anything – is the government considering in an online search of security clearance applicants?
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Greenland's Glaciers Might be Melting 100X Faster Than Thought
Ice melt could be much more significant than scientists thought.
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