Ted Kennedy, long idolized as the Lion of the Senate, miscalculated badly when he challenged incumbent Jimmy Carter for the Democratic nomination. The results haunt liberals to this day.
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Science has a reputation for vigorous hypothesis-testing in the search for truth. But when errors make it into scientific journals, the hallowed self-correction process seldom lives up to the ideal.
It officially ended 150 years ago on April 9 in Appomattox with General Lee’s surrender, but the deep divisions that produced the Civil War still roil our national psyche.
A scholar finds black parents are homeschooling kids to protect them from racism and what they see as a Eurocentric education.
The stats for 2014 have been compiled and shark attacks and fatalities are down worldwide. The numbers are truly tiny. Why do we fixate on this vanishingly rare possibility?
Studying beads, shells and animal teeth – ornaments which carried deep cultural meaning to prehistoric man – reveals that northern Europeans resisted the spread of agriculture for centuries.
The preliminary deal won’t lift any sanctions, but businesses eager to return to Iran won’t wait for the ink to dry to gear up.
Paul Walker is only the most recent dead actor to appear on screen. But as the technology develops, what are the legal and ethical limits?
A centrist against a liberal in Chicago but that’s an outcome that reflects the city’s unique political landscape
The search for clean and painless executions may have failed, raising questions about the constitutionality of capital punishment.
Research project combines digital technologies with farms of wave generators to bring plentiful and reliable ocean power closer to commercialization.
Liberal learning is in crisis and the onus is now on its proponents to show how it is relevant to students’ personal, professional and political lives.
If the brain processes words and mathematical symbols differently, why not musical symbols too?
Looking back at how the US financial industry grew to dominate the economy rather than merely serve it will help us avoid another crisis.
To mark the 21st anniversary of the Rwandan genocide: lessons from the “gacaca” courts, the country’s unique and ambitious community justice initiative.
When it comes to food, believing that you have no self-control can be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
With teachers leaving the profession in large numbers and a drop in candidates applying to teaching programs, it is time to take a fresh look at education reforms.
Economic inequality and environmental degradation are closely linked – and stem from politicians’ fixation on economic growth at all costs.
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 2,000 years of artistic achievement.
First found in jellyfish, but now inserted into all kinds of organisms, GFPs illuminate biological structures and processes that researchers otherwise couldn’t see.
A law signed into effect last week seeks to reduce fertilizer runoff that causes toxic algae blooms. But to really address the problem requires taking a hard look at how America farms.
The US has only itself to blame for the growing number of allies that have agreed to join China’s development bank despite American objections.
Today, most of us get too little light during the day and too much at night for our circadian rhythm to function at its best.
Don’t listen to the naysayers. New ways of communicating have created a wealth of new opportunities to harness – and study – language.
OK, it doesn’t smell great. But skunk cabbage has a unique secret weapon to help it be one of the first plants to emerge from the snow at the end of winter.