The government shutdown has jeopardized the upcoming field season for the U.S. Antarctic Program, where geology professors Ross Powell and Reed Scherer were scheduled to lead a research expedition with two doctorate students.The research project is funded...

The world will end one day, but it’s not going to be anytime soon. With the devastation that followed Hurricane Sandy and the looming end of the Mayan calendar—and, according to some, the outcome of the presidential election—there are people who...