Each week, we’ll be covering how faith shapes our politics, culture and society — and how it’s appearing in new forms.

When I play, I feel the vibration in my heart,” the cellist Yumi Kendall told Dacher Keltner, a psychologist who studies awe. “It is beyond language. Beyond thought. Beyond religion. It is like a ...

The legendary atheist and evolutionary biologist argues that truth shouldn't bend to faith or fashionable politics.

"According to evolutionary psychology, red may have evolved in many species to signal dominance, vitality, and fertility," ...

A new study from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem explores how the Israel–Gaza war is transforming religion and ...

Three centuries ago, Italian scientist, Galileo was publicly denounced by a Catholic priest. He had been dubbed an enemy of true religion. And he would be remembered as the man that started the debate ...

In 2025, prophecies from Baba Vanga and Athos Salomé, suggest humanity may encounter alien life, potentially during a major global sporting event. Gov ...

Is climate science actually a religion? The Trump administration would like you to think so. Earlier this year, Lee Zeldin, Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced a ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child’s ...

To come up with a result as weird as this, you need to be using some equally mind-bending math – and indeed, this paradox comes to us from the world of set theoretic geometry. If that’s not familiar ...

Scientific research was suppressed for decades in Maoist China, Stalin's Russia, and Nazi Germany. This seriously held back ...