July marks 50 years of Pope Paul VI's encyclical prohibiting contraceptive use. For many years prior to it, the church…
The global population is climbing faster and faster. What will this mean for future generations?
A recent study to assess the health benefits of alcohol was halted after investigators were found to have ties to the alcohol…
Democrats won the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections, but Republican presidents have appointed…
After two years of turmoil at the EPA in the 1980s, President Reagan hit the reset button, choosing a Republican who supported…
The president launched a trade war largely on the premise of a massive trade deficit with China. A closer look at the iPhone…
With its attempt to purge the country's courts of 40 percent of its judges, Poland's right-wing ruling party passed…
The percentage of trans adults has doubled in the last 10 years. Looking to human anatomy and physiology alone doesn't…
Scholars who study trust and cooperation designed a game to find out what it would take to get citizens to support refugees…
The 20th-century philosopher Hannah Arendt wrote how refugees, in the absence of legal rights, were forced to live in a…
Stripping away preexisting conditions coverage would have far-reaching effects, but 50- to 64-year-olds are most vulnerable.…
A new type of antibiotic uses DNA to fight a common deadly microbe, _Clostridium difficile_. These new drugs are inexpensive…
Towns are embracing their eccentric visitors as a way to boost their struggling economies.
So far, he has not given any hints that his team is hatching a parallel set of economic policies that will benefit all Americans,…
July is the hottest month in much of North America. Experts explain who is most affected by heat waves and ways to cope…
Robotic milkers, video cameras and even sensors hidden inside the body will help this dairy farm figure out how to get the…
Everybody does it, but why? Scientists aren't really sure if exhaustion, stress or some other social factor is at the…
The motorcycle maker angered Trump after it said it plans to move some production overseas to avoid EU tariffs – just…
More interracial couples are appearing on TV and in advertising. But is media exposure enough to change attitudes?