May-June 2011

For Father's Day, here's research on how dads are faring, how they're portrayed in pop culture and how the increasing frequency of stay-at-home fathers is changing gender roles in society.

In the documentary film "Welcome to Shelbyville," a small Tennessee town deals with an influx of residents from Somalia.

Washington dumped torrents of stimulus dollars across the American landscape to keep the U.S. economy from dying on the vine, but most of the spending won't bear fruit until 2015.

Will investing in speed and electrification create the "sparks effect" needed to convince Americans to ride high-speed rail?

As if being wiped out by a meteor wasn't degrading enough, a charismatic dinosaur discovered in Utah gets a less-than-flattering name.

Doppler radar helped save the Texas forests where millions of migrating birds rest each spring.

Outside the U.S., biological labs follow few if any security regulations. A Sandia National Laboratory team works to help those labs prevent deadly microbe releases, accidental and deliberate.

Peter Williams, an architect turned advocate, touts an unacknowledged connection between design and well-being.

The bottom-of-the-pyramid marketing movement tries to profit the developing world and make a profit at the same time.

Bucking a trend, a new book shows that group living can inoculate the homeless who are mentally ill against a return to the streets.

In this Miller-McCune Q&A, Los Angeles County's top cop Lee Baca explains why he wants to offer an education to tens of thousands of prisoners.

"State of Minds" scours the University of California for important research and then does something special: It makes it interesting.

A comprehensive look at voter behavior and demographics reveals a momentous prospect: A Hispanic electorate that votes en masse, allies itself with one political party and changes America's political balance for decades.

Some environmental advocates say the federal government is ignoring the real future of solar energy: photovoltaic cells on almost every roof. But even supporters acknowledge rooftop solar isn't the complete answer to the energy question — yet.

Big money, big energy and big environmentalism join forces to support big solar energy projects on federal land in the Southwest. But could these "green" projects actually be anti-environmental boondoggles in the making?