In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the fundamentalists “refuse to be buried.” A century later, the funeral for ...

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Efforts by leaders of the US national academies to adjust to the new political reality have spurred member concerns about ...

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Some members of the scientific community have concern that they’re coming out of the COVID pandemic—exposure to the virus, ...

Allow children to transition, or they will kill themselves. For more than a decade, this has been the strongest argument in ...

The Supreme Court upheld free preventive care, rejecting a challenge that threatened coverage for STI testing, cancer ...

When one person takes the time to regularly be still and attend to a specific cue, such as their breath or a mantra, their ...

Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

The novel that inspired the film Jaws was decidedly populist. The movie took a different turn.

Claims that an asteroid or comet airburst destroyed the biblical Sodom captured the public’s imagination. Its retraction ...