Vital Skyscrapers Need Better Planning, Experts Say

Cities around the world need ever-taller buildings as their populations grow and their infrastructures age, but most tall buildings are designed with too little regard for their urban contexts, according to a new book by an urban planner/designer at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an architecture professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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New Software Alleviates Wireless Traffic

The explosive popularity of wireless devices—from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes—is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.

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Policy Experts Support 'Low-Tech' Adoption of Road User Fees

The U.S. should adopt mileage-based road user fees to raise revenue to build and maintain roads and bridges, say faculty members at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

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Breaking News Experts Needed: 1) U.S. Government Sequester, 2) Child "Cured" of HIV, 3) SpaceX Supply Ship Arrives at ISS.

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Information Security Expert Recommends System to Protect the Nation's Power Grid

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Cornell Offers Expert on the U.S. Postal Service and Shutting Down Saturday Delivery

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Nation’s Water Supply Not as Threatened as Believed

University of Florida research study adds new twist to previous studies of the nation's water supplies; finds that when infrastructure is included in the mix (reservoirs, dams, etc.), water vulnerability is less of a threat than previously believed.

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Study of Social Network "Check-ins" Shows We Still Make Friends Face-to-Face

Even in the age of social media, the closer you live to another persons, the more likely you are to be friends with them, according to a study that drew on data from the location-based social network provider Gowalla.

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Mortgage Debt Elimination, Infrastructure Investment Could Make ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Battle Meaningless

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Cornell Expert Says Don’t Rebuild, Seize the Chance to Rethink Coastal Development After Sandy

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