Yemen: Civil War and Regional Intervention (CRS)
Noteworthy new and updated reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Yemen: Civil War and Regional Intervention, updated September 17, 2019
Attacks Against Saudi Oil Rattle Markets, CRS Insight, September 16, 2019
U.S.-China Trade and Economic Relations: Overview, CRS In Focus, updated September 12, 2019
Immigration Detention: A Legal Overview, September 16, 2019
Antitrust and “Big Tech”, September 11, 2019
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.