O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...

Imagine resurrecting a long-debunked myth, slapping a fresh coat of pseudoscience on it, and dropping it just in time to sway ...

I’m up on Cape Cod, and I get a message from one of my staff saying, “You don’t want to see this, but you better read it.” It ...

Jeanette Nuñez, who has spent her career in politics, has a resume that marks a departure from previous FIU presidents. Unlike the university’s past two presidents, Nuñez — who was selected without a ...

Given that Massachusetts has lower birth and marriage rates than the national average, the lack of funding for infrastructure could impact the state's economy, a UMass Amherst professor says.

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Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Scientists have found an asteroid that might smash into the Earth in December 2032. That's less than eight short years away, ...

Smart scientists sign up to study the natural world and end up professional fundraisers for higher-education. To call it a ...

Your odds of getting into different Russell Group unis vary wildly. One Russell Group uni gets over three times as many applicants per place than other unis. And it’s not even Oxbridge. Here are the ...

HHS websites and the health data they contain are essential sources of public information. They should be free of political ...