Public Affairs

When it comes to talking about nanotech, some audiences are being left behind. Closing the information gap is key to helping people make informed consumer and policy decisions. --by Corey Schubert

Nanotechnology has the potential to affect our freedom, privacy, health and safety in both positive and negative ways. David Guston, director of ASU's Center for Nanotechnology in Society, talks about social concerns related to nanotech and how we can address them. --by Joe Kullman

Find out how Arizona residents feel about the results of the presidential election, why they voted the way they did, and what they think the GOP should do to revive itself nationally.

As top news headlines trumpet American economic woes, U.S. presidential candidates struggle to reassure panicked investors. But how exactly does the economy influence voting behavior? Researchers are finding out.

While America's presidential candidates stump for education reform, some of the nation's most distinguished scholars are developing research-based recommendations to help our country's next leader formulate effective education policies. --by Verina Palmer Martin

New research challenges beliefs that the Latino population is only interested in handouts from government. Latinos in Phoenix are willing to pay for local services such as ambulance, library and youth programs--even more so than whites. --by Christine Lambrakis

Direct democracy is all about asking the public to decide which programs are worthy of funding and which are not. But Daniel Sarewitz says this is an absurd way to fund science. --by Nicholas Gerbis

Anyone who watches television in the United States might logically conclude that this is a nation plagued by allergies, depression and arthritis. Ads for medicines to address such conditions make it seem as though ailment sufferers outnumber the healthy. But, it wasn't always so. --by Carrie Barnett

The unknown health and environmental effects of
nanotechnology are a bigger worry for scientists than for the public,
according to a new report. --by Skip Derra