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In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Alex Hastings of Georgia Southern University reveals how work on the Panama Canal has helped paleontologist gain a better…

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Tom Smulders of Newcastle University explains why our fingers become wrinkly after prolonged exposure to water.Tom…

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Aron Barbey of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign explains efforts to understand emotional intelligence.Aron…

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Kevin Rockmann of George Mason University explores how the practice of telecommuting alters the relationship between a…

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Evie Malaia of the University of Texas at Arlington reveals what features of American Sign Language have to say about how…

"Dracula" - Thomas Fersen

Less money is now coming from wealthy, industrialized nations and more is flowing from private foundations, corporations and even countries that only a few years ago were recipients themselves.

Two non-profit think tanks with opposite philosophical views have teamed to create a joint website to promote state and local government transparency in…

WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Art DeGaetano, Associate Professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Cornell University about…

There's more to Angela Davis than her signature afro. A new documentary, Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, explores the events that turned the philosophy professor into a political icon in the 1960s. Jada Pinkett Smith tells host Michel Martin why she became executive producer of the film.