Nonprofit Helps Duggars Memorialize Lost Daughter
Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep serves the Duggars of the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” turning a private grieving process into a very public display.
FDA Cracks Whip on Lap-Band Marketing
An industry that’s grown up around a promising way to help people caught in a web of obesity needs to make a few less promises, the FDA declares.
Feds Seek Ban on Cellphone Use for Drivers
As past Miller-McCune articles have shown, driving while using your cellphone is a bad idea, and the U.S. government is doing its best to make sure you can hear that message now.
LEED Program Reaches a Green Milestone
In a sign of acceptance of green building practices, the existing commercial space being retrofitted to LEED standards now exceeds that of new construction.
Cigarettes Do Have Free Speech Rights
A federal judge says tobacco companies’ complaints about the heavy hand of government forcing them to gainsay their own products have merit.
Gadhafi: Another Dead Despot, Another Hidden Body
Moammar Gadhafi’s secret burial adds another chapter on how victors treat the bodies of their opposition’s leadership.
Wildlife CSI Positively Identified Bat Killer
A fungus long suspected as the cause of the white-nose syndrome killing American bats has been positively ID'd as the culprit.
Bipartisan Group Wants U.S. to Get Serious About Geoengineering
Efforts at geoengineering to cool a warming planet are picking up steam.
DADT: Researchers Have Been There All Along
As the U.S. military today begins allowing gay service members to no longer hide their sexuality, we look at the various academic and empirical studies that surround the issue.
Las Cumbres Helps Confirm Planet With Two Suns
A retired Google exec’s dream of ringing the planet with telescopes available to kids and professional astronomers has assisted in some recent discoveries.