The question of origins has long bedevilled the study of pandemics. In pre-modern times, outbreaks of infectious disease were ...

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Utopian and Scientific is a condensed and accessible account of the historical development of socialism.  It outlines the essentials of Marxist historical materialism, political economy and philosophy ...

Visual representation of color spaces aligning with a mathematical apex. (LANL) Beauty may lie in the eye of the beholder, ...

Many people who don’t believe one conspiracy theory about that station—known as the High-frequency Active Auroral Research ...

The more we discover about the universe, particularly its genesis, the more evidence we have pointing to the need for God.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new signal coming from an exploding star — a “chirp” that speeds up over time, similar to the signals seen when black holes collide. The unusual pattern appeared ...

You would think that in this day and age, with the collective knowledge of humankind easily accessible via the internet, people would be more factual and objective. And yet, there are lots of folks ...

A lot of people write about what they see, but scientists have a uniquely effective way to observe the world and develop ...

A Colorado charter school quickly backed down from teaching creationism to eighth graders, but the incident illustrates that a lot of the public, and some people within public schools, ...

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...