Stories by robg

How Adam Smith's theory of moral sentiments could be applied to greenhouse gas emissions.

Optics and genetics are allowing neuroscientists to identify and control brain circuits

To explore Space, use big robots and big rockets

Google.org's ‘Threat Detective’ against diease epidemics: 'hot spots' from search queries?

Letting Our Fingers Do the Talking

The White Hats are hackers who spot security breaches and are a force for good

The vicious cycle of deleveraging | A fate worse than debt

How We Value the Super-Rich - Wall Street vs. Silicon Valley

Meet the 2008 MacArthur Fellows, including Alexei Kitaev, quantum computer scientist

What’s Free About Free Enterprise?

A Multicultural Generation, Poised to Reinvent

Tired? The importance of letting ideas marinate and percolate through sleep

Towns That Could Be Hit Hardest by the Financial Crisis

How to sniff out disease: Doctors may soon have a new diagnostic tool in their kit bags

User-generated science: Web tools are beginning to change the shape of scientific debate

Looking for a Better Man-to-Dog Lifespan Ratio

How Friendly Will a URL Ever Be?

Pogue: "Google may or may not be evil, but wow, is it getting good at search."

New tool for venture philanthropists to measure impact of grants - brought to us by Google

What 'Deep Impact' might an asteroid make on Earth, astronauts ask