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FAS Launches ‘FRO-casting’ Tournament on Metaculus to Solicit Ideas for Focused Research Organizations (FROs)

FROs focus efforts on technology challenges that require coordinated and cross-disciplinary pursuits at the boundary of research and engineering The Federation of American Scientists (FAS), one of the oldest science…

10.02.23 | 2 min read
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FAS
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Government Shutdowns Are ‘Science Shutdowns’

Government shutdowns are “Science Shutdowns” – a wildly expensive and ineffective tactic that slows or stops scientific progress at the expense of everyday Americans. Agencies are busy preparing contingency plans…

09.28.23 | 3 min read
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Education & Workforce
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Healthy Kids, High Grades: Using Data to Evaluate Health and Education Policy

It’s back-to-school time! As kids from across the country get back into classrooms this fall, many of them, at least in Colorado and Minnesota, will be attending a school that…

09.28.23 | 4 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Truly Open Science Needs Knowledge Synthesis

This article was written as part of the Future of Open Science Policy project, a partnership between the Federation of American Scientists, the Center for Open Science, and the Wilson…

09.27.23 | 4 min read
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Environment
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Ahead of the Wildland Fire Commission Report Release, a Roundup of FAS’s Efforts to Provide Input on Wildland Fire Policy

FAS is committed to producing science-based policy recommendations that improve people’s lives – and over the last year we’ve devoted considerable effort to understanding wildfire in the context of U.S….

09.26.23 | 3 min read
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