May-June 2009

Duke University Engineers use the classic detective game of CLUE™ to teach robots how to navigate minefields and find hidden explosives.

Our spinogram allows you to watch the U.S. economy change before your very eyes.

Liberals and conservatives conceive of morality in decidedly different ways. Jonathan Haidt has mapped out their competing ethical universes in hopes they can learn to peacefully coexist.

Letters to the editor: OK, bucko, step outside and say we're afraid of population growth. Go ahead. See what happens.

A Miller-McCune interview of intellectual provocateur Leon Botstein.

Julie Cajune leads a groundbreaking Montana initiative to compile American-Indian history and include it in public education.

A Miller-McCune Research Essay by Columbia University professor Shahid Naeem on the importance of biodiversity and the true significance of the human species.

Wonks examine the state of American self-governance; little hopeful audacity is found.

In its first four years, Catherine Rohr's Prison Entrepreneurship Program shows some success in turning drug dealers and other convicts into legit businessmen.

In the Salado salt formation a half-mile below the New Mexico desert, WIPP has room to store all the radioactive waste an expanded nuclear power program could produce. Emphasis on the word could.

Many environmentalists oppose a "green" idea for tidal power in the U.K. So do British surfers.

New research shows that fatherhood can make you a better man. While men don't endure the pangs of childbirth, studies show they get some of the same cognitive and physical benefits from their own altered biochemistry, which occurs once the baby arrives.

Can journalism schools oversee the public-interest news organizations of the future? Yes, with caveats.

We look at studies analyzing the longevity of pro golfers' careers, health benefits for amateur players, environmental impact of the greens as well as sexism on the links.