The issue focused on technology innovation and climate change. The scientists reported that scientific research had moved away from experiments with laboratory animals to studies in laboratories of humans. Scientists also changed their study designs, researchers started studying biological samples instead of mathematical models, and labs built technologies more frequently for science research.

That evolution might have helped boost technological innovation in the sciences. Scientists used computers and databases for climate research more often than laboratory experiments in the 1970s and 1980s. Scientists didn't study biology so much because biologists weren