The last of eight sarcophagi from a recently discovered burial chamber in Egypt's Valley of the Kings revealed ancient garlands of flowers. Lanny Bell, adjunct professor of Egyptology, provides background about the discovery and the likely use of the tomb. (National Geographic News is the National Geographic magazine’s companion Web site.)

History Professor Gordon Wood is among the scholars who have entered the fray in an attempt to referee an ideological tug-of-war over the faith of the Founding Fathers.

Rhode Island must get more of its welfare recipients working within the next year, or risk losing millions of dollars a year in federal money. In this article, Scott W. Allard, an assistant professor of political science and public policy and an expert on welfare policy, offers possible solutions.

A growing movement in Massachusetts seeks to strengthen medical care at nursing homes and cut unnecessary hospitalizations. Among those working on the issue is Orna Intrator, assistant professor of community health (research), who used Medicare records to conclude that over a five-month period, 37 percent of the hospitalizations of long-term residents at urban nursing homes nationwide were potentially avoidable.

R.I. Senate candidates Lincoln Chafee, Stephen Laffey and Sheldon Whitehouse and their supporters have spent about $1.3 million on ads in the past two months – almost $2 for every registered voter in the state. Political Science Professor Darrell West is among those interviewed for the article. He notes that "this Senate campaign got off to a very early start and is being conducted at a very expensive pace." This wire service article was distributed to member media. It appeared in the Boston Globe and elsewhere throughout New England.

Whether you’re a free-loading virus or a meat-stealing monkey, selfishness pays. So how could cooperators survive in a cheater’s world? Thomas Flatt, a postdoctoral research associate at Brown, was part of a group that created a theoretical model that neatly solves this dilemma, which has stumped evolutionary biologists and social scientists for decades. The trick: Keep the altruists in small groups, away from the swindling horde, where they multiply and migrate. This press release appeared on Science Daily.com.

A Brown University experiment will be among the 50 payloads that will fly aboard the inaugural commercial space launch from New Mexico’s Spaceport. This press release was published in New Mexico Business Weekly.

Brown University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee will work together to advance research and teaching, with an emphasis on materials science. Under the agreement, the two institutions can exchange faculty and conduct joint research.

In a Q&A with Gelf, a “webzine,” economics Professor Ignacio Palacio-Huerta discusses the implications of his research that applies game theory to soccer, why kicking to the center could be a good idea, and how he would advise teams to approach penalty kicks.