July-August 2010

Our readers wonder whether the primary blame for warfare rests with one hormone.

Bamboo houses combat climate change, encourage economic growth and protect the poor from natural disaster. Why aren't there more of them?

How a government team called Operation Mongoose tried to get rid of the invasive northern snakehead by poisoning 400 miles of Arkansas waterways.

A new book, "Just Give Money to the Poor," says the poor will spend the cash wisely and boost the economy, too.

A new book, "The Enemy In Our Hands," looks at how America has treated — and mistreated — prisoners of war through history resonates in the age of terror.

In Congress, Republicans outnumber Democrats on Twitter 2 to 1, according to a diagram that looks at Tweets from both sides of the aisle.

Why euro-bashers could turn against the dollar, and how they might be stopped.

The Slovak Republic, Israel and the Czech Republic score high marks in the annual Adventure Tourism Development Index.

With Machu Picchu literally sinking into the ground, Peru looks for authentic, eco-friendly ways to grow its travel sector.

Researchers analyzing episodes of ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" and Fox's "House" determine the hospital dramas are "rife" with incidents that violate professional codes of conduct.

To paraphrase Stalin, one dead body is a fact; a million dead bodies are a point of contention.

State courts should stand firm on equal school funding and make sure legislators and governors show kids the money, a law scholar writes.

A collaboration between UCLA and the Los Angeles school district aims for the kind of bilingual excellence that's common in Europe.

Perhaps. A Minneapolis experiment offers voluntary busing of minority schoolchildren as a way to deal with segregated schools.

Almost everyone in the world's "bottom billion" has at least one of a dozen or so tropical diseases that mostly ignored by Western medicine and pharmaceutical companies.

In the "AIDS exceptionalism" debate, emotions run high, and the options are difficult: Shift some AIDS funding to other care, or find billions in new support.

Researchers find that skateboarders will take more risks with their tricks and boast higher testosterone levels when women are present.

As Pixar launches "Toy Story 3," we look at research the innovative animation studio has inspired.

Using artificial intelligence and the graphics techniques behind "Avatar," a USC institute creates “virtual humans” and interactive immersions that train American soldiers to win hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan.

University of Washington researcher Julia Parrish founded COASST, a nonprofit that allows hundreds of citizens to serve science by cataloging dead birds on West Coast beaches.

It's not insufficient schooling or a shortage of scientists. It's a lack of job opportunities. Americans need the reasonable hope that spending their youth preparing to do science will provide a satisfactory career.