Some recent reports of the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“Science and Technology Policy: Issues for the 109th Congress,” updated September 1, 2006.
“Navy Ship Names: Background For Congress,” updated September 1, 2006.
“Legal Developments in International Civil Aviation,” updated August 25, 2006.
“Homeland Security Research and Development Funding, Organization, and Oversight,” updated August 22, 2006.
Science funding agencies are biased against risk, making transformative research difficult to fund. Forecast-based approaches to grantmaking could improve funding outcomes for high-risk, high-reward research.
Establishing an NIH Office of Infection-Associated Chronic Illness Research can guard against the long-term effects of Covid and lead to novel breakthroughs across many less understood diseases.
A military depot in central Belarus has recently been upgraded with additional security perimeters and an access point that indicate it could be intended for housing Russian nuclear warheads for Belarus’ Russia-supplied Iskander missile launchers.
With a PhD in materials science, a postdoc position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a stint as a AAAS Fellow, Dr. Shawn Chen has had a range of roles in the research community.