Head of Flawed Effort to ID Missing Soldiers Loses Job
by Megan McCloskey ProPublica, Oct. 3, 2014, 10:32 a.m.
The longtime scientific director of the problem-ridden Pentagon agency charged with identifying the remains of service...
Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System
by Charles Ornstein ProPublica, Sep. 30, 2014, 9:47 p.m.
The federal government unveiled data Tuesday detailing 4.4 million payments made to doctors and teaching hospitals...
Conservatives’ crack team of superteachers will need the patience of Gandhi
By James Williams, University of Sussex
As a theme for Hollywood filmmakers, the crack team of experts sent in where others dare to tread to...
Why climate ‘uncertainty’ is no excuse for doing nothing
By Richard Pancost, University of Bristol and Stephan Lewandowsky, University of Bristol
Former environment minister Owen Paterson has called for the UK to scrap its...
Australian writer Richard Flanagan wins the Man Booker prize
By Preti Taneja, University of Cambridge
Richard Flanagan has won the 2014 Man Booker Prize with his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North....
Germany’s green energy gamble could really use some vorsprung durch technik
By Thomas Sattich, Universität Bremen
Remember the big, somewhat bulky Mercedes Benz cars of the early 1990s? State-of-the-art at that time, they left their competitors...
Fracking boom could mean up to 12% more carbon emissions
By Erik Bichard, University of Salford
The consistent message from those who would seek to exploit shale gas is that it has three distinct advantages...
Brain scans show who’s likely to trust strangers – something conmen can only...
By Rebecca Slack, University of Sheffield
How do you decide if you can trust someone? Is it based on their handshake, the way they look...
