India has become the focal point for a mosquito-borne plague that is sweeping the globe. An epidemic of dengue fever in India is fostering a growing sense of alarm even as government officials here have publicly refused to acknowledge [...]

The Southern Ocean circles Antarctica and remains one of the most pristine and ecologically rich oceans on earth. Its richness has attracted a growing number of industrial fishing fleets, which are harvesting toothfish and krill, [...]

LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes to tap the millions [...]

The subcontinental nation may contend with China as the world’s largest coal-burner, with attendant climate change impacts India is poised to contend with China as the globe’s top consumer of coal, with 455 power plants [...]

That world is gone. I JUST arrived in Shanghai, but I’m thinking about Estonia and wondering about something Presidents Clinton and Obama have been saying. Wired magazine reported last week that public schools in Estonia [...]

Two thirds of the crops humans use for food production and the majority of wild plant species depend on pollination by insects such as bees and hover-flies. This ecosystem service, however, provided by nature to [...]

It would not take an elaborate plot by Al Qaeda to endanger many lives. SINCE Sept. 11, 2001, the American government, under two presidents, has taken unprecedented steps to ensure the safety of its citizens. [...]

America is in trouble. Emerging economic powers China and India are heavily investing in educating the world’s future workers while we squabble about punishing teachers and coddling children. This week, the Center for American Progress [...]

In horror movies, the scariest moments usually come from the monster you can’t see. So the same goes for real life, or at least online life. Over the past few years, largely out of sight, [...]

With a chilling hint of the not-so-distant future, researchers at the Usenix Security conference have demonstrated a zero-day vulnerability in your brain. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers have shown that it’s possible to [...]

We’re charging headlong into a future filled with one-way mirrors behind which the rich spy on the poor, and the strong on the weak. Last week Wikileaks–remember them?–released a sheaf of documents about the Trapwire [...]

WE’RE in the worst drought in the United States since the 1950s, and we’re wasting it. Though the drought has devastated corn crops and disrupted commerce on the Mississippi River, it also represents an opportunity [...]