Arnie Cooper, a freelance writer based in Santa Barbara, Calif., covers food, travel and popular culture, as well as architecture and the sustainabili...

A leading archaeologist’s take on the pre-European Maya discounts ‘ecocide’ and suggests the people were actually astute stewards of the jungle who could teach us a thing or two.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a list that can be abused to the detriment of patients and benefit of drug companies.

Conflicts, whether over ties to the pharmaceutical industry or fights over new categories of illness, come with the turf in revising psychiatry’s most important reference.

The latest “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders” is being revised and, by some, reviled.

Demonstration farm in rural California draws attention with its crop of unique building experiments.

New monitoring systems should make smart bridges that let on when they’re feeling fatigued.

An American-led famine early warning system uses satellite technology to predict where best to stave off future starving in the rest of the world.

Scientists are adapting the gecko’s ‘sticky feet’ to create bonding materials for sporting equipment and robots.

Engineers at Nissan creating a buzz with their ‘Safety Shield.’

Sto Corp’s self-cleaning Lotusan exterior paint uses the plant’s micro-structural qualities to remove dirt just after a rain.