September-October 2011

Do we really need to smell the items featured in TV programming? A materials expert has created a function for your TV or portable device that can generate thousands of odors.

PBS looks at the radical environmentalists whose turn to terrorism discredited their quixotic campaign in "If a Tree Falls."

A growing body of research reveals myriad benefits — for employers and employees alike — when company policies promoting work-life balance are offered to low-wage workers.

Visitors are expected to flock to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum when it opens, even as memories of that day fade away.

How the recession transfers wealth from the old to the young.

Now that modern militaries accept that war creates psychological trauma, therapists wonder about its toll on the spirit.

German Chancellor (and physicist) Angela Merkel did a 180 on nuclear energy after Fukushima, setting off an "energy revolution" in the process.

Mark Humayun taps the burgeoning field of bioelectronics to help the blind to see and the lame to walk.

Marine chemist Christopher Reddy offered dispassionate and scientific analyses of the Gulf oil spill last year when others were losing their heads.

A new book, "The Failure of Environmental Education," says schools are failing to teach kids how to save the planet.

A Central California community has added a fourth "R" to the core curriculum in its public schools: Religion. Sociologist Emile Lester answers our questions about the experiment.

Results of a survey from the American Association of School Administrators shows how K-12 school officials across the country made cuts to their schools' programs.

As the fall semester begins, we look at some of the ways community colleges are meeting — or failing to meet — the needs of their students.

How one California school district turns bad teachers over to their peers to help them improve their skills and save their jobs.

The University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute runs charter schools and uses innovative practices to provide inner-city children a pathway to college.

The world’s best school systems depend on teacher collaboration, but the concept has not caught on in the U.S. We found schools where teamwork is making a difference.

Diane Ravitch, the former assistant U.S. secretary of education, tells Miller-McCune what she thinks about No Child Left Behind now.