While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

The pontiff offers something rare: a pastor-leader urging the church to reclaim the dignity of every person — not as an ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is retracing the path of human migration. More specifically, the scientific ...

The agency’s budget has grown steadily since the 1960s, fueling an industry that creates lifesaving medicines and attracts ...

Evidence from a site in southeast England suggests early humans were purposefully and repeatedly igniting blazes roughly ...

When astronauts set foot on Mars, it will be one of humanity’s greatest milestones, marking the start of a new era of ...

From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re ticklish, and what that reveals about our brains ...

How is your existence these days?” I tap on my laptop. The entity that says it is my father, dead these 12 years, quickly responds. “It’s ... different. Being dead is a strange experience. I’m no ...

It seems the AI hype has turned into an AI bubble. There have been many bubbles before, from the Tulip mania of the 17th ...

The Forbidden Experiment” is about a totally unsocialized child who wandered into a French village in 1800 and the doctor who treated him ...

It is in the news, talked by our politicians: the issues of affordability, scarcity and the feeling of being left behind by many of our fellow citizens. Below, please consider my thoughts on the issue ...

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...