Miller-McCune magazine

An esteemed professor rightly takes AIDS denialists to task, but his valuable history of the movement is at times a caustic read.

Observing someone blame another for their lack of success increased the likelihood that people would make subsequent blame attributions for their own, unrelated failures, according to a paper just published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Elected officials are getting more and more involved in increasing civic engagement to varying degrees of success.

It's safe to assume most narcissists, given the high opinion they hold of themselves, believe they are better looking than the average person. New research suggests they may be right.

What happens when witches meet wonks? With Halloween approaching, Miller-McCune's skeleton staff digs up some facts about the haunted holiday.

When it comes to Somali piracy, Americans, as a rule, don't like to pay ransom (as is evident in the Maersk Alabama hijacking); Europeans have been more pragmatic. It's a difference that reflects counter-terrorism policy. But piracy isn't terrorism, and the decision to pay or fight on the high seas ...

New monitoring systems being studied in a $9 million program by the Technology Innovation Program should make smarter bridges in which sensors alert humans when the structures are dangerously fatigued.

The rather nerdy constitutional pursuit of counting everybody in the country once a decade has become a political issue like everything else.

Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner train home-based child care providers for the poor neighborhoods that need them most.

New research suggests the notion of ongoing Holocaust-related atrocities suffered among Jews apparently increases feelings of anti-Semitism.

How to get to Sesame Street? Take Wonk Way and turn left on Research Road. A look at academic research on the popular children's TV show throughout its 40-year history.

The U.S. spends billions on levees, but river flooding still causes havoc across the country. Vermont has a better way It finds out where rivers want to go, and let's them go there.

Late urban champion Jane Jacobs' notions about decline and imports are newly and eerily resonant during this recession.

Law professor Alexandra Natapoff explains how to keep criminal informants from duping prosecutors, police and the rest of us in her new book titled "Snitching."