Virtual Issues

Motion-tracking cameras that watch helium-filled, neutrally buoyant bubbles swirl past a vehicle can reveal its aerodynamics as never before

Viruses that infect ocean algae are hyperefficient photosynthesisers so that they can keep their hosts on life support during infection

There’s only one sure way to save vanishing tropical forests – stop slicing into them with highways of destruction, says biologist William Laurance

Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on August 28, 1963. (Photo: AFP / Getty Images)

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    Washington – When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA.

    With Blackwater’s lucrative government security work and contacts arrayed in hot spots around the world, company officials offered the services of foreigners supposedly skilled at tracking terrorists in lawless regions and countries where the CIA had no working relationships with the government.

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    On this one-way planet of ours, it’s hard sometimes to imagine things any other way, but for a moment let’s try. Imagine, for instance, that in recent years the director of Iranian intelligence oversaw a program of “extraordinary rendition” aimed at those who were believed to be prepared to commit acts of terror against that country’s fundamentalist regime.

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    Bill Moyers has been a frequent critic of the Republican Party over the years, making his critique of the Democratic Party on ‘Real Time’ more exceptional.

    PBS’s Bill Moyers issued a tough critique of the Democratic Party on Friday night on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.”

    Moyers, whose comments focused on the recent health care debate, said that “too many Democrats have had their spines surgically removed.”

    Moyers, a White House press secretary during the Johnson administrati

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    Scientists agree that lost wetlands could have reduced Katrina’s surge. To prevent future damage, we need to restore them now..

    Four years ago this weekend, Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3 storm, caused massive destruction along the Gulf Coast from central Florida to Texas. Much of the damage was caused by storm surge, which destroyed infrastructure and damaged critical refineries.

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    The federal case on Prop. 8 could get ugly, with every canard about homosexuality being put on trial.

    The issue before a federal judge in January will be same-sex marriage in California and whether the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with its guarantees of equal protection and due process of law, prohibits Proposition 8 and other bans on the right to marry.

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    Atlanta, Georgia – As U.S. cities consider the urgent need for sustainable public transportation options, advocates are looking for ways to achieve the environmental benefits of such projects without displacing residents through gentrification of surrounding areas.

    The U.S. transport sector accounts for about a third of the country’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, which contribute to global warming, according to the Energy Information Administration.

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