Dan Watson

Once derided as the wrong path forward in fighting this mosquito-borne killer, a new malaria vaccine offers decent results and renewed hope.

A new report on funding renewable energy projects offers a primer on how policy decisions are best engineered to boost the industry.

Robert Socolow, the co-author of an influential plan to reduce carbon emissions, revisits his work seven years later to understand why it failed.

The corn industry goes toe-to-toe with the sugar industry, for the use of the word "sugar."

By analyzing tens of millions of news stories, a supercomputer in Tennessee may be able to predict future human events.

A bill on the floor of the California Senate, if passed and signed, will limit employers' ability to conduct credit checks of non-managerial employees.

The State Library in Australia's New South Wales is putting forth a new project to preserve forgotten or endangered Aboriginal languages.

A new academic center at the University of Maryland promises to take undervalued research and synthesize it into answers for pressing environmental challenges.

In a podcast conversation with law and economics professor Gillian Hadfield, she expounds on ways to bring more legal services to Americans without requiring vast new armies of expensive lawyers.

A group of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans with PTSD in a class-action lawsuit settled with the U.S. government to increase their disability benefits.

The U.S. announced a new plan for electronics stewardship, with the goal of less waste, voluntary cooperation by industry and less hazardous materials in landfills both here and in developing countries.

A new report suggests that the social cost of carbon — the economic damage done by one ton of carbon dioxide emissions — could be drastically higher than government agencies have estimated.