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  • Inside The Mine

    Friday, Sep. 10, 2010

    The 33 trapped miners have more room to move around than most people think. In addition to the main room, in which they regularly gather, they have a number of adjacent tunnels, as sketched out on a napkin, below, and sent up by one of the men

  • How Geothermal Heat Works In Your Home

    Tuesday, Sep. 28, 2010

    Geothermal heat pumps use the nearly constant temperature underground to heat or cool a building's interior

  • 100 Days of the BP Spill: A Timeline

    Monday, Jul. 26, 2010

    An interactive, day-by-day look at how BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico became the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. Click on the bars below to access the important events from the first 100 days.

  • The Economy's Toughest Task

    Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010

    Getting America's unemployed back to work will take more than just stimulus and tax cuts. Take a look at what kind of jobs will be found in the future

  • Job Competition

    Tuesday, Mar. 23, 2010

    See how many jobs are available per industry for the unemployed

  • TIME's Person of the Year, from 1927 to 2011

    Thursday, Nov. 08, 2007

    TIME's Person of the Year is bestowed by the editors on the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year. See who made the grade over TIME's first eight decades

  • Detroit: Now a Ghost Town

    Wednesday, Sep. 23, 2009

    Once a crowded urban center, Detroit has become a large city with many buildings and too few people. By mid-2008, its population had dropped to 912,062, about half the number of residents in 1950

  • Interactive Graphic: How A Vaccine Battles Cancer

    Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009

    The immune system is good at battling most diseases, but cancer is equally good at eluding our defenses. New vaccines are designed to deliver the one-two punch: helping the immune system better spot cancer, then prodding it to attack the disease.

  • The State of Cancer

    Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009

    A confounding thing about cancer is that it's actually many diseases, which makes prognosis and prevention variable. All this makes keeping track of cancer stats tricky, but trends emerge from the numerical noise.

  • Two Nations Look to the Future

    Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009

    At the turn of the last century, Australia and New Zealand were among the world's richest countries. Their rankings have slipped slightly since then but the two countries are still attractive to new immigrants — whose impact is plain throughout society

  • Out of Luck

    Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009

    Las Vegas Boulevard is scarred by underfunded, undersold and unfinished hotels, casinos and condos

  • Mapping Swine Flu

    Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009

    The H1N1 virus is unpredictable, evolving and widespread. Declared a global pandemic in June, the flu is expected to stress U.S. schools, health-care systems and the economy this fall. A look at where it has spread so far—and who is vulnerable

  • How the Swine Flu Virus Works

    Thursday, Aug. 06, 2009

    H1N1 is an entirely new virus, but it still works the way past flus have—by invading the body cell by cell. The question is whether our immune systems can respond in time—and before the virus mutates

  • Michael Jackson's Life as Prodigy, Superstar and Jacko

    Friday, Jul. 03, 2009

    Michael Jackson began his life as a pop legend with his stand-out performance in The Jackson 5. Later, hits like "Thriller," and "Billie Jean" elevated him to international superstardom.

  • Preterm Birth Rates

    Wednesday, Jul. 22, 2009

    Preterm birth rates remain the highest in the U.S. in the South

  • Leading Causes of Death

    Thursday, Jul. 16, 2009

    At the world's current population, about 57 million people die each year. Smoking contributes to six of the top eight killers; snuff the butts, and you stop many of the deaths

  • The World at War and FDR's Key Decisions

    Wednesday, Jun. 24, 2009

    The U.S. was isolationist in the 1930s - a sentiment F.D.R. struggled to overcome. After war broke out, he helped the Allies when he could, but the U.S. officially remained on the sidelines until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

  • Gay Rights Timeline

    Monday, Jun. 15, 2009

    Gay relationships were recognized, if not legal, as far back as 7th Century BC Greece. But the history of gay rights activism really heated up in the 20th Century.

  • The Fall of Detroit and Its Most Famous Rapper

    Friday, May. 29, 2009

    It's been a rough road for the Motor City and its native son, Eminem. GM and Chrysler have gone bankrupt, while the rapper's new album has flopped — despite a humiliating stunt at the MTV Movie Awards. A side-by-side look back at troubled pasts

  • A Video Roundtable on The Future of Capitalism

    Wednesday, May. 13, 2009

    With our economic world changing so rapidly, many writers and thinkers are looking at the roots of capitalism and how it must evolve. In the first of our series of TIME 100 roundtables we gathered a stellar cast of honorees to ponder the road ahead.

  • The People Behind The People

    Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2009

    An interactive look at the circles of influence for this year's TIME 100.

  • An Interactive Guide to the First 100 Days

    Monday, Apr. 27, 2009

    An interactive day-by-day look at President Obama's first 100 days. The dates below read from left to right; click to read more on a specific event.

  • American Thrift: A TIME Poll

    Wednesday, Apr. 15, 2009

    As the downturn digs in, TIME asked 1,000 Americans how they're feeling, where they're scrimping and what they see in the road ahead. From clipping coupons to raiding our 401(k)s, we're making big changes but still holding on to hope.

  • International Adoptions in Decline

    Thursday, Apr. 23, 2009

    With stricter requirements for prospective parents and tighter laws to crack down on illegal practices, international adoptions to the U.S. have fallen over 20% in the past five years, with some countries declining by nearly half.

  • A Brief History of Chinese Democracy

    Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008

    Critics joked we'd see actual democratic reform in China before we saw the long-awaited Guns n' Roses album. How close was it? Here's a head-to-head timeline

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