A former Army HUMINT team leader who treated Top Secret access like a ticket to Beijing now has four years to think about the ...

Vedantam, a veteran science reporter, joins WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to explore how unseen mental forces shape our choices, and why the show continues to resonate with listeners.

Eight decades ago, a presidential commission guided by Jefferson’s great-great-grandson selectively edited the Founding ...

The world as we know it is now in a state of complex flux. And our current conceptual framework for understanding the breakneck speed at which things are moving is to say we now live in a ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

The never-ending cycle of cleaning can feel like a losing battle. As soon as you tackle one mess, another appears, leaving ...

How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

A little-known desert berry may hold the key to fighting diabetes. Scientists may have uncovered a surprising new weapon in the fight against diabetes: the fruit of an ancient desert plant. Known as ...

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

The U.S. Secret Service and FBI are investigating a mysterious hunting stand found on Thursday near the West Palm Beach airport facing where the exit to Air Force One would be. The Secret Service says ...

Among the jinn arrived a jewel. That jewel is Washington quarterback Demond Williams Jr., who could rise to the top of the Heisman Trophy race if he continues his high-level production against ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.