A joint unit of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine that addresses cross-disciplinary policy issues to advance the health, vibrancy, ...

An instrumentalist understanding of science has become dominant in American political discourse in recent decades, making science policy harder to distinguish from industrial policy. Yet crafting ...

Presidents need science advice. From climate change and pandemics to the governance of AI and the country’s nuclear arsenal, science sits at the center of a range of foreign and domestic policy ...

Science and innovation policy makers have long had a keen interest in obtaining quantitative data and qualitative information they can use to support decisions they make, such as whether and how much ...