In 1985 a new college graduate named Michael Kremer traveled to Kenya hoping to learn more about a topic he had studied at Harvard: economic development in low-income countries. He didn’t anticipate ...

Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from ...

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries ...

October is that month in the year that carries a lot of weight on a personal note and, obviously, on a national note.  I ...

Mining uranium is just like mining any other base metal, many industry executives say: exploration, licensing, excavation and then shutting down the mine at the end of its useful life. But when you ...