The pro-nature, anti-population growth writings of the Silver Springs, Md., hostage-taker

Scientists scoff at the idea, so why do we cling to age-old superstitions about sex and food?

Latest comments are par for the course from the ultraconservative 2016 candidate

Are you talking to me, human? Cats know the difference between words addressed to them and words spoken to others

Michelle Obama supports expanding access to mail-in ballots to protect voter rights during the coronavirus pandemic

Does kitty love me, or just love that I feed her? Animal behaviorists get to the bottom of it

A new study projects that at least one million extinctions are going to occur as a result of climate change

While the outbreaks in the show are decisively fictional, there is something to be said about contaminated flour

If we aren’t alone, who are we? Examining God among the cosmos

Grandma doesn't need a robot, argues Zeynep Tufekci. She needs a humane world

The two greatest poets of World War I despised the bloody, pointless conflict — yet fought bravely. But why?

An MIT professor and her student have devised technology that lets us track a person's movements through walls

A dog who loses their family experiences a deep psychological trauma, from which recovery may not be possible

Midshipman fish are known to hum and sing. The parts of the brain that let them do it reflects some of our own

Our favorite meats are loaded with contaminants, all so the food industry can improve its profit margins