Jan/Feb 2013

An inventor's shocking solution for office doldrums

Labels, prices, reputations. They're as much a part of your wine-tasting experience as the juice itself.

How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.

“I had no idea which of my parents carried the gene,” writer Mona Gable recounts. But the death of her brother led her to find out if she carried the marker.

Gulfstreams and Dassault Falcons crowd the skies over Williston, North Dakota.

Forensic scientists are working to identify the anonymous corpses of thousands of unlucky immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Inside the Korean music machine

The psychologist Jeremy Bailenson’s quest to prepare us for the coming virtual world

A new program could bring efficient, affordable dental care to the poor. Guess who's trying to stop it.

Could simulcasts at your local theater save the high arts, or sink them?

What Jimmie Johnson and Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., owe to a PhD in the pit crew.

The conservative war on science is an old trope, but apparently liberals have opened up a second front.

From indie to rap to South Texas polka, music communities fight to define authenticity in pop

A full recovery is nowhere in sight. So beware economists who use a false dawn to push awful policies.

Advocates and scientists have tied the Earth’s fate to that of the polar bear. But what happens if this lumbering giant proves more resilient than the rest of us?