Commercial and recreational drones are taking to the air. They're very noisy, and neighborhoods everywhere could become…
Former President Jimmy Carter's foreign policy efforts may have been far more effective than critics have claimed.
Hidden forces are always at work in the world, and people always want to control them, a cognitive anthropologist explains.…
Amid all the Mueller report uncertainty, one thing is clear: Donald Trump did some wildly improper things to win the presidency.…
Air quality in the US has improved greatly since 1990, but a new report finds progress stalling in some cities. Meanwhile,…
Measles cases in the US have reached their highest in 25 years. A bioethicist argues why parents opposed to vaccination…
The April 30 shooting at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte isn't an outlier. Research shows it fits a familiar…
Just as America's highways, sewage systems and water pipes need fixing, so does the growing gap between rich and poor.…
The source of water on Earth, the moon and planets in our solar system is hotly debated. Some in the planetary science community…
The US indicted WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange for conspiring to hack into a government computer. But the prosecution…
Examining 302 police reports in Detroit, a new study shows that animal cruelty is tightly connected to human relationships.
The president's blame-the-press rhetoric is, to the news media, calculated to score political points. But are there…
How did we become so submissive to a condition of constant surveillance that – except in spy movies or paranoid delusions…
A chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade helped save several items during the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral. Rarely seen, fire…
Missiles that fly 3,000 mph or faster – much faster than the speed of sound – are the next generation of high-technology…
Can the brain’s conscious mechanisms exert a significant influence on the body’s autonomic functions? New research suggests…
Studies that look at the effect of nature on patients recovering from surgery have shown that it can enhance recovery. Now,…
Legislation requiring that all criminal debt associated with a citizen's conviction be repaid would leave thousands…
Venezuela is on the cusp of a coup, and a familiar face has emerged from house arrest to lead the charge against President…