Michael Haederle

A blue-ribbon panel sees the sun possibly setting on medical experiments using chimps, leading federal authorities to halt new awards but leave existing experiments in place.

A computer analysis of the text of the first five books of the Bible determines at least two hands working on the scrolls.

After studying four decades of terrorism, Aaron Clauset thinks he’s found mathematical patterns that can help governments prevent and prepare for major terror attacks. The U.S. government seems to agree.

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

Studies looking at the brains of people playing a fairness game found very different responses between Buddhist meditators and other participants.

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?

Ordering in the court may be the new cry as a look at judges’ decisions made before and after lunch shows a wide difference in outcome.

Bioprinting allows researchers to create replacement human tissue and output it on equipment similar to what came free in your desktop bundle.

Trying to divine the mood of a group of people is hard and requires trust in their answers. A new method has researchers whistling a happier tune.

Handheld sensors using specialized — and relatively cheap — biosensors may deliver an instant diagnosis of diseases, contaminated water and biological attacks.

Melting glaciers yield evidence on new theories of Asian migration to the Americas. Underwater robots search the sea bottom, looking for more.

The ancient Romans of Pompeii were already parboiled when the lava arrived, according to a new investigation with scary implications for modern-day Naples.

The advent of agriculture created a new kind of seed-scattering strategy.

A U.S. government project combining two well-known technologies — swamp coolers and water-absorbing compounds — generates an amazingly efficient air conditioner.

How the potent hormone of empathy, oxytocin, is shaking up the field of economics.

Advances in technology make low-efficiency but wide areas solar energy newly practical.

Even for a proven energy innovator like James Dehlsen, the path to offer solutions to the Gulf oil spill is uphill and rocky.

Oxytocin, already dubbed the ‘cuddle hormone,’ may deserve a new moniker as the ‘kindness molecule.’

An American academic finds people can somewhat accurately predict your political affiliation by your looks alone.

How brain-scanning technology is redefining criminal culpability.

To engineers, every problem is just a solution that hasn’t occurred yet, our Michael Haederle learns at the El Paso innovation conference.

In El Paso, our Michael Haederle reviews innovative ideas suggested for arresting the wear and tear on roads, bridges and other infrastructure.

Reporting from the El Paso innovation conference, our Michael Haederle explains how a toy frog may have hopped over some biomedical manufacturing obstacles.

Our Michael Haederle reports live from El Paso, where academics gathered at a conference looking for practical innovations to address the big problems.

‘Microspheres’ prove devastatingly effective in trapping and killing tiny threats like bacteria and spores.

Studies are finding that the pain relief induced by placebos may come from releasing the body’s own chemical pain relievers.

Wind speeds, expected to help propel the advance of renewable energy, may be slowing, a cautious new study suggests. Then again, they may be blowing even harder.

Drivers aren’t singing the blues so much about high-intensity headlights these days, but a smarter version of them might really light up their driving lives.

The University of Arizona’s Michael Hammer is using advanced DNA techniques to figure out where we came from. Which, apparently, is not just one place, or even one species.

Empathy is more than an item on a prospective Supreme Court nominee’s résumé; it’s a core human trait. But where inside the brain might it arise?

The tyranny of choice also appears to affect research into schizophrenia: The sheer volume of data can make teasing out what’s important from what’s trivial an obstacle to better understanding the disease.

A study on hantavirus and Panama rats suggests another and less obvious benefit to biodiversity — it may diminish the threat humans face from zoonotic diseases.

A drug used to treat alcoholics and heroin addicts shows promise in treating those addicted to theft.

Amid gallons of competing studies about the benefits and banes of alcohol, the consistent message that moderation is a good course gets refined.

A Miller-McCune interview of intellectual provocateur Leon Botstein.

Review: A useful but incomplete book looks at the compatibility (if any) of Buddhism and science.

Using game theory and market-design software, doctors are arranging kidney-transplant ‘swaps’ — sometimes in long chains — to give more people with renal disease better transplant options and healthier futures.

Puzzled over health complications more persistent among African Americans than in other Americans, researchers invoke epigenetics.

Efforts to align the boss and the shareholder prove difficult to master and sometimes create perverse results.

The National Ice Core Laboratory tries to answer one question: As the Earth warms, will sea levels rise three feet? Or 30? Or even more?

New research shows just how harmful insomnia is and how necessary sleep remains.

Research is confirming the medicinal effects that advocates have long claimed for meditation.

Inevitably, some voters will cast votes against Barack Obama because he is black. But research suggests he has options for reducing prejudiced voting in November.

Dramatically cooling patients after cardiac arrest improves survival, recovery.

Michael Reynolds has been building his variety of low-consumption, off-the-grid housing for decades. Now, though, the Earthship is taking off.

The latest wonder drug isn’t from Merck or Pfizer. It’s from Starbucks.