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Hundreds of years after George Washington first began draining the now-112,000-acre Great Dismal Swamp in southeastern Virginia, biologists are working to restore it to a more natural environment.

The Next IdeaA few years before the Great Recession, I was an advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank. I provided some limited advice on how to stimulate…

Why don't traditional diets work for many people? Blame your brain, suggests Sandra Aamodt. Her new book delves into the science of why eating and weight have become such a sizable problem.

People may talk about wanting to be environmentally friendly but, when it comes to buying new cars, the data show they aren't spending their green on…

A century ago, two brothers took the world by storm with their mass-produced boxed cereal. Medical historian Howard Markel chronicles the contentious relationship between the creators of Corn Flakes.

"Human beings are the only species that deliberately deprive themselves of sleep for no apparent gain," says sleep scientist Matthew Walker. His new book is Why We Sleep.

Almost six years to the day it was bailed out by the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, Ally Financial has exited."With this sale, we are…

Plans for a new natural gas pipeline through parts of southeastern Michigan face a lot of local opposition.The ET Rover Pipeline would snake its way…

The Michigan men’s basketball team just finished one of the craziest seasons in program history.After a sluggish start, the Wolverines were in danger of…

Written in the '80s, The Gourmet is an absurdist satire exploring the politics of food and the hedonistic culture of consumerism that treats it as a recreational drug. It's still strikingly relevant.