Finding Water from Outer Space
A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world's thirstiest places.
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Posted 2009-10-06 17:30:00
Researchers Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam say the accepted story of the mass killings of 1994 is incomplete, and the full truth — inconvenient as it may be to the Rwandan government — needs to come out.
Posted 2009-10-19 05:05:00
A globe-trotting geologist uses satellites and other remote-sensing platforms to find water under some of the world's thirstiest places.
Posted 2009-10-19 05:10:00
AVMA president responds in the debate on the use of extra-label antibiotics in poultry.
Posted 2009-10-20 05:00:00
A financial stimulus for the recession-battered middle class: pot farming.
Posted 2009-10-21 05:00:00
The Obama administration has a mortgage refinancing program that needs some tuning.
Posted 2009-10-22 05:00:00
Can the descendants of horses left by Spanish explorers coexist with native plants and animals on North Carolina's environmentally sensitive Outer Banks? A study will tell.
Posted 2009-10-23 05:00:00
A law professor explains how to keep criminal informants from duping prosecutors, police and the rest of us.
Posted 2009-10-26 05:00:00
The U.S. spends billions on levees, but river flooding still causes havoc across the country. Vermont has a better way.
Posted 2009-10-27 02:00:00
How to get to Sesame Street? Take Wonk Way and turn left on Research Road.
Posted 2009-10-28 08:55:00
Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner train home-based child care providers for the poor neighborhoods that need them most.
Posted 2009-10-29 02:00:00
How can the U.S. and Europe keep ship owners from paying ransoms that make Somali pirates more dangerous?
Posted 2009-10-30 05:00:00
Psychologist Todd Kashdan explores the many benefits of cultivating curiosity.
Posted 2009-11-02 05:00:00
How the government can make us better at self-government.
Posted 2009-11-03 05:00:05
An esteemed professor rightly takes AIDS denialists to task, but his valuable history of the movement is at times a caustic read.
Posted 2009-11-05 05:00:18
Graphic representations of how movie stars and their critics rate, according to Metacritic.com.
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