Environment
Sewer Diving: A Journey Inside Milwaukee's Deep Water Tunnel
Find out how divers clean out the buildup in a sewage overflow tunnel
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Environment
From Thrones to Robo-Commodes: The Pitfalls of Inventing a Better Toilet
Rose George's book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters examines the ins and outs of sanitation; this excerpt explores the cutting edge of toilet technology...
Health
Go Ahead, Say It: Shit--There, Now We Can Seriously Discuss Sanitation
ScientificAmerican.com chats with Rose George, author of a book that goes where few books have gone before
Technology
Protein Computer Games: Me Fold Pretty One Day
How thousands of would-be scientists are helping a team of researchers figure out protein shapes via the Internet, and in the comfort of their own homes
Mind & Brain
Political Science: What Being Neat or Messy Says about Political Leanings
Do genes determine whether you'll be liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican?
The Sciences
Trade, Jobs and Wages
In 1994, 2008 Nobel economics prize winner Paul Krugman and colleague Robert Lawrence said blaming foreign competition for U.S. economic ills is ineffective. The real problems lie at home...
The Sciences
Interactive Map: Presidential Battleground States
These will likely be the states where the presidential election is decided. Find out where science and environmental policy issues will play a role
The Sciences
How We All Learned to Make The Bomb
Doctor Atomic, a new opera about to open at the Met, brings nuclear proliferation, "rogue states" and the terrorists' dream of a dirty bomb back to the first "ground zero"
The Sciences
The Big To-Do List--Scientific Challenges Facing the Next President
Will the next administration find itself hamstrung by the cost of the financial crisis?
The Sciences
The "New" New Media Campaign: Will the Networked Generation Rock the Vote--Or Wreck It?
Welcome to the first presidential election of the YouTube era. What's next?
The Sciences
Body Politics: The Power of the Visual in Electoral Debates
Just as important as what you say is how you look and what you're doing while you're saying it
The Sciences
Rulers of Light: Using Lasers to Measure Distance and Time
A revolutionary kind of laser light called an optical frequency comb makes possible a more precise type of atomic clock and many other applications
The Sciences
A History of Nobel Physicists from Wartime Japan
Nobel laureate Yoichiro Nambu co-authored this piece about the most trying years of Japan's history, as two brilliant schools of theoretical physics flourished
The Sciences
Profile: Yoichiro Nambu in 1995
Strings and gluons--The seer, this year's physics Nobel laureate, saw them all
The Sciences
Ranking Candidates Is More Accurate Than Voting
A ballot-counting system that allows voters to rank the candidates could provide more accurate results
