Before the U.S. responds to 'drill, baby, drill' campaign rhetoric with more offshore energy exploration, it should revise Reagan-era leasing and royalty rules that cost the Treasury billions.

When it comes to new treatment guidelines for breast cancer, back pain and other maladies, it's the narrative presentation that matters.

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

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.

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

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.

The human tendency toward war is based on biology, but the right family planning policies can redirect the world toward peace.

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

A U.S. immigration court creates a new persecuted group in Europe: Christian home-schoolers.

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

Graph shows that the U.S. government's effort to shift car buyers to higher-efficiency vehicles was anything but a "Buy American" campaign.

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

In Texas, one county's experiment in evidence-based probation reform has cut recidivism and revocations, saved money and served as a model for other jurisdictions.

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.

The blandly titled Journalist's Resource sits on the Web, ready — with a little help from Harvard's Kennedy School — to throw substantive story ideas onto reporters' desks.

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.

With few resources but the force of his title — U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions — Philip Alston holds governments accountable for the politically motivated killings they commit, or ignore.

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

Letters to the Editor: From Beethoven to Zappa, new technology hasn't been out of tune with beautiful music.

Letters to the Editor: The keyboard may be quicker, but the supporters of cursive aren't about to give up the fight.

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

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

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.

The rapidly growing field of paleotempestology lays the foundation for reliable hurricane predictions a decade or more into the future.

Terry Hazen finds, studies and then uses microbes to clean up pollution deep underground, to refine oil before it is pumped and to produce the next generation of green fuels. He catches alligators sometimes, too.

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.

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

Scouring "Avatar," "The X Files" and, yes, even "The Simpsons" for sociological subtext.

"DIRT! The Movie" links hope for the future with the earth beneath our feet. The documentary makes its national debut on PBS as an Earth Day special.

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

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

A growing movement looks to change development patterns — as a matter of public health.

Conservationists hope to save the Jaguar, the Western Hemisphere's biggest cat, by improving cattle management in Brazil's biodiverse Pantanal.

Tens of thousands of 'Purple People' — named after the traditional color of Italian mourning — march in Rome to protest a legendarily bombastic, allegedly corrupt prime minister. Is the country finally ready to say basta?

The Navy looks at new technology for keeping produce fresh during lengthy voyages; see-through salad era may be over.

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

After monitoring the behavior of soccer hooligans at the 1998 World Cup, researchers determined that violent behavior was more accepted among the English.

Don't spend that World Cup money just yet, South Africa. Statistics show that the World Cup isn't always an economic boon for host countries.

Researchers find a spike in heart problems among European soccer fans during World Cup matches, while other studies show the players on the pitch are suffering fewer injuries.

Research studies differ on the effect of an Oscar on a film's bottom line.

Oscar winners may live longer lives than their peers. Or perhaps shorter ones.

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.

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

Researchers find a link between hip fractures in grandfathers and reduced bone size in their grandsons. Plus, see what happens when pop culture and academics collide ...

Scientists say the dietary silicon in beer boosts bone density, and moderate consumption might help fight osteoporosis.

It's no joke: Researchers give Viagra to pregnant sheep and find that the drug boosts vital nutrients needed for fetal development.

A controlling, bossy element on "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" exudes qualities that put him on track to become vice president?

Scientists weigh the possibility that methane gas on Mars comes from microorganisms in the soil.

A scientific 'sniff test' could aid museums and libraries in preserving their old works without damaging the actual documents.