Research

In Short: Corruption and India’s Rural Roads; Pricing Water; and More

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology: A Species in the Making

After 36 years of observation, Princeton scientists report incipient finch species

Economics: Population — Is Less More?

Climate-change policy scholars grapple with a growing human population

New Releases

Electrical Engineering: Cast-Off Smartphones Could Increase Internet Access, Reduce E-Waste

Q&A: Bruce Blair on a Nuclear Debate

Presidential rhetoric brings new scrutiny to nuclear-launch protocol

Celebrating Poet Langston Hughes

Faculty Book: Wallace Best

Essay: A ‘Monster’ and Its Humanity

Reading Frankenstein, now 200 years old

Life of the Mind: Moths Exposed

Q&A: James McPherson on Understanding History Through Empathy

New Releases

Essay: Confederate Memorialization and the Problems of Moral Equivalency

In Short

Geosciences: Feeling the Heat

Study finds climate change will only exacerbate inequality in the United States

Faculty Book: Jeffrey Eugenides

Thirty Years of Wide-Ranging Fiction

Betsy Levy Paluck: The Good Message

Psychologist wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’ for studies on combating intolerance, bullying

In Short: Nuclear Material; Quorum Sensing

Chemistry: Contradiction in Germs

‘Lazy’ microbes reveal their secret drugs when they must work to get nutrients

Essay: Truth in History

Psychology: Baby Double Talk

Baby Lab researchers examine how bilingual children juggle languages

In Short

Ecology And Evolutionary Biology: Domestic Dogs’ Affability May Be Thanks to a Genetic Boost

Q&A: Tracy K. Smith

A break from the noise

Molecular Biology: Dad, Interrupted

New DNA research exposes cellular effects of childhood trauma