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‘Forever’ Chemicals? Maybe Not, Thanks to Supercomputing (Oliver Peckham, HPC Wire)

Nonbiodegradable “forever chemicals” like perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (collectively, PFASs) were invented in the 1930s as a way to advance nonstick and waterproof materials....

The bumpy road to 5G rollout in India (V Sridhar, East Asia Forum)

India has much to gain from 5G not only due to the high speed data transfers it provides but also from the way the...

How COVID-19 is undermining international trade law (Bryan Mercurio, East Asia Forum)

The COVID-19 pandemic will have a lasting effect on many areas of international lawmaking. In recent years, members of the World Trade Organization (WTO)...

How a Massachusetts town is investing in social infrastructure to rebuild its Main Street (Aaron Greiner and Emily Cooper, Brookings)

In his book Palaces for the People, sociologist Eric Klinenberg demonstrates a correlation between death rates in the 1995 Chicago heat wave and access to social infrastructure....

TechTank Podcast Episode 32: In the U.S.A.’s tech-driven economy, is enough being done to protect consumer choice and privacy? (Bill Baer, Brookings)

Today antitrust enforcement, competition policy, and privacy are hot button issues in the U.S. and around the world. Critics of tech giants like Google,...

States can improve housing well-being through thoughtfully designed policies (Jenny Schuetz, Brookings)

Rising housing costs have become an increasingly salient political issue for state-level elected officials across the United States. Local governments have traditionally exerted the most direct control over land use and...

Addressing the trade-off between lower drug prices and incentives for pharmaceutical innovation (Rena Conti, Richard G. Frank, and Jonathan Gruber, Brookings)

The fundamental dilemma in prescription drug policy is often understood to be the tradeoff between establishing incentives for innovation that produces new cures through...

How the Biden administration can make AGOA more effective (Witney Schneidman, Kate McNulty, and Natalie Dicharry, Brookings)

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has served as the cornerstone of the U.S.-Africa commercial relationship for more than two decades but it...

Australia’s Bartle Frere Bananas using IoT and data to improve banana traceability (Aimee Chanthadavong, ZDNet)

"If you can trace a cow, you can track anything," Gavin Devaney, owner and managing director of Bartle Frere Bananas told ZDNet. It's the...
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