A congressional subcommittee spent nearly two hours on Tuesday discussing the rarely practiced but frequently talked about ...

The nation’s leading scientific advisory body issued a major report on Wednesday detailing the strongest evidence to date ...

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The negligence, harm, and misinformation espoused by those in charge of what was formerly the world’s leading public health ...

The Destruction Of Sodom And Gomorrah, painting by John Martin, 1852. In 2021 a multidisciplinary team of researchers claimed that a Tunguska-sized airburst, larger than any such airburst in human ...

Without a shared understanding of reality, we become ungovernable. And if we lose truth, we risk losing the republic.

Scientific information is complicated and full of caveats and clarifications. This, of course, absolutely ruins the shareability of even the most interesting facts and discoveries. So, what’s an ...

We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s hyperpolarized world, even science itself has become a political ...