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Why Heat Waves Make You Miserable
Scientists are studying how much heat and humidity the human body can take.
Unleashing Light
The light microscope launched modern biology in the seventeenth century, letting scientists view the components of life that exist far beyond...
Mapping Music
Humans seem to have an instinct for music. Certain songs have a quality that makes us want to tap our toes and sing along. We can’t quite...
Questing Eye
Each night that it has run since its April launch, the 72-inch optical telescope at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, has...
Grading Teachers
Education researchers and policymakers, like the rest of us, have long known that a good teacher can make all the difference to a childs...
"Unsales" Pitches
These days, prescription drug ads bombard the consumer at every turn. Even so, the $4 billion spent annually on direct-to-consumer...
Research on beauty’s effect in the labor market by Mark Mobius
Beauty is Natures coin, John Milton wrote in 1634. It is currency in todays labor market as well. Since 1994, numerous studies have found that...
Latinos Nix Violence
First-generation immigrants are more likely to be law-abiding than third-generation Americans of similar socioeconomic status, reports Robert...
“Alternative” Placebos
Doctors once kept jars full of sugar pills, in various colors, in their offices. “Take two of these and call me in the morning...
Prenatal Competition?
Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women between the ages of 15 and 49, according...
The Baby Business
“Sex sells.” Now sex cells sell, too. In 2004 more than a million infertile Americans paid dearly to conceive a child. Although...