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Research shows being attractive helps in all sorts of ways, including getting a job. What does that mean for the plain person vying for the same position?

by Kara Platoni

The already fractious debate over climate change has boiled over in recent months with threats and accusations against scientists. One target has been Professor Stephen Schneider, who says the public is being snookered by a radical fringe intent on obscuring the facts.

The shimmering, spiraling, gravity-defying water installations created by Mark Fuller, MS '78, and his company have not only beautified resorts around the world, they have established a new genre of art.

by Ann Marsh

Around the world, coral reefs are dying as oceans warm. But near a tiny island in the South Pacific, researchers have discovered corals that have adapted to survive. They could be the key to saving a verdant sea.

by Paul Rogers

Provocative new research by psychologist Lera Boroditsky raises questions about the role language plays in shaping human thinking. Her controversial studies show that the words we use and the meanings we attach can alter our perception of the world.

by Joan O’C. Hamilton

Can we fight terrorism with a Twitter feed? It may not be that simple, but everyone who knows the State Department's Jared Cohen expects that his social-media savvy will transform U.S. foreign policy.

by Rick Schmitt

Romantic rendezvous! Wildlife encounters! Midnight adventures! A recreational destination for decades, Lagunita has been the setting for pranks, parties and plain old fun. Alumni share some of their favorite memories from the

Anemia and malnutrition stunt the cognitive development of many children in poor, rural areas of China. Through testing and field trials, researchers from the Freeman Spogli Institute found an answer that may give millions of kids a better future.

by Joel McCormick

Movie designer Suttirat Larlarb, '93, combines an artist's sensibility with an engineer's precision whether she's creating the vibrant costumes in Slumdog Millionaire or the claustrophobic canyon in 127 Hours.

by Sonia van Gilder Cooke

Immersed in courses that force collaboration and original thinking, students at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design learn what it takes to innovate, and are reinventing themselves in the process.

by Mike Antonucci