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

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

Social and political complexities are increasing the challenges faced by criminal investigations, though scientific evidence remains primary, a Chinese American forensic expert said.

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

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 ...

Historically, biological reality included the existence of two immutable sexes, the humanity of a late-term fetus, and that childbirth was exclusive to one sex. Today, this reality is exchanged for ...

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 ...

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 ...