In a cooperation between Amnesty International and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, geospatial technologies like satellite imagery, GPS, and GIS are used to document human rights abuses.

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A conversation with the Austrian-born physicist and mathematician Karl Hess, who served on the US National Science Board from 2006 until 2008. 

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Charles Wessner, the director of the Program on Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NAS, about  the  role of innovation  in the United States.

In their 2005 report, the National Academies identified four recommendations with twenty specific actions to secure the US' leadership in science and technology. Deborah Stine looks at the national policy response to those action items.  

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Social innovations are essential for the development of people's lives. ZSI, a Vienna-based institute, seeks to advance social innovations for the global evolution of the knowledge-based information society.

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Visions for a Place of Peace – Austrian Team Top Winner of MIT’s “Just Jerusalem Competition”

Two Austrian architects, Siegfried Attenender and Lorenz Potocnik, are "Visionary Resarch Fellows" at MIT. They got awarded this fellowship by winning an international competition with their entry “HUMMUS: East Mediterranean City Belt 2050”.

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Today, few know of the scientific achievements of Lise Meitner, a Jewish physicist from  Vienna. It was her joint research with the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann that led to the discovery of uranium fission.