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Can you be an environmentalist without embracing nuclear energy?

Thirty-nine years after the meltdown at Three Mile Island and almost five years post-Fukushima, nuclear power seems to be emerging from its long funk...

Monday, February 22, 2016

The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

Geoengineering, the deliberate hacking of Earth’s climate, might be one of the most promising potential responses to climate change, especially in the...

Monday, February 01, 2016

Deploying Technology to Rescue the Past

As ISIS campaigns to eradicate non-Islamic cultural heritage in Iraq and Syria and developers throughout the world encroach on sites where antiquities...

Thursday, January 28, 2016

How Human Do We Want Our Robots to Be?

Robots are starting to look suspiciously familiar. Increasingly sophisticated robots designed to resemble us are striking up more and more symbiotic...

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

2015 McCain Institute Highlights

In 2015, The McCain Institute hosted its third class of Next Generation Leaders – 12 remarkable individuals from 12 countries. Each NGL works at a...

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

ASU associate professor Kimberly Scott discusses new White House-backed initiative

On Monday, January 11, ASU launched the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology, led by Dr. Kimberly Scott of the School of Social...

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

After Paris: The Refugee Crisis

Ongoing conflicts around the world have displaced sixty million refugees, with the war in Syria creating an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. Half of...

Friday, December 11, 2015

The Tyranny of Algorithms

Algorithms are learning more and more about us while we seem to understand them less and less. Somewhere in the past few years we ceded some of our...

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Reframing the Debate around CRISPR and Genome Editing

Researchers’ ability to alter and design genomes has taken a leap forward in recent years with the development of CRISPR, a remarkably precise...

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Is It Time for the United States to Pivot Back to Europe?

On Thursday, December 3, The McCain Institute hosted "Is It Time for the United States to Pivot Back to Europe?" at the U.S. Navy Memorial.Featuring...

Thursday, December 03, 2015

My Favorite Movie: Dr. France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, on October Sky

On December 2, 2015, Future Tense hosted a “My Favorite Movie” event at the E Street Cinema in Washington, DC, featuring Dr. France Córdova, director...

Wednesday, December 02, 2015

Why we need Risk Innovation

Our imaginations have become dulled to the novel and creative alternatives that are desperately needed to ensure the responsible development of an...

Wednesday, November 18, 2015