The University of Scranton’s Center for Ethics and Excellence in Public Service recently hosted a pair of debates with participation from local journalists who served as panelists. The Scranton ...

Across the basin, citizen science not only allows locals to contribute to knowledge production but also enables them to shape debates about the river’s future and their own livelihoods. The Mekong is ...

Happy Halloween, Short Wavers! In today’s news round-up, we’ve got only treats. Hosts Regina Barber and Emily Kwong fill in NPR’s Ailsa Chang on a debate in spider web architecture, how the details ...

For decades, paleontologists debated whether fossils were of a young T. rex or a species called nanotyrannus. A new study ...

At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to go by, making it hard to tell if it belonged to a child or adult.

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...

Pope St Pius X warned us. He saw the infection long before the fever hit. Modernism, he said in Pascendi (1907), splits faith ...

Some scientists looking to preserve vulnerable species have turned to a controversial technique: synthetic biology. This ...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said this week he’s ready for a public debate with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) amid the government shutdown, now in its third week. “I look forward to ...

(The Center Square) — Earlier this month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Dr Susan Monarez, his hand-picked director of the CDC, just a few weeks after supporting her. In Senate testimony, she maintained ...

Beneath the surface of the short-term ups and downs of financial markets, a longer-term repricing of multiple assets may be underway as investors seek to protect themselves from the threats posed by ...

Republicans are beginning to break ranks as MAHA leadership inside and outside the administration pushes its agenda by undercutting science. Earlier this month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Dr Susan ...