Taking Waves: Nation's First Tsunami-Resistant Building Could Be Built on the Oregon Coast
The design, which features reinforcements at the base of a large stilted building to help prevent damage from powerful tsunamis, aims to provide a new city hall and vertical-escape shelter for 1,500 people
Numbers Wars: School Battles Heat Up Again in the Traditional versus Reform-Math Debate
Weak student scores fuel the fight in mathematics education
How to Get More Bicyclists on the Road
To boost urban bicycling, figure out what women want
Removing Roads and Traffic Lights Speeds Urban Travel
Urban travel is slow and inefficient, in part because drivers act in self-interested ways
Turf Battles: Politics Interfere with Species Identification
As nations view their flora and fauna as commodities, science suffers
On the Rebound
Discouraging people from using more energy just because it costs less