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A Fortnight of Facts About Religious Liberty
A ‘set-the-record-straight’ post from the Washington Post’s Figuring Faith blog: U.S. Catholic bishops have launched the “Fortnight for Freedom,”...
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Killings of Environmentalists Appear to Be on the Rise
Around the world, sticking up for the environment can be deadly, and it appears to be getting deadlier. People...
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Continuous Learning Instead of “Lifelong Learning”
The problems engineers face are increasing in complexity at an exponential pace, and as one plenary speaker at the...
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Physics Community Afire With Rumors of Higgs Boson Discovery
One of the biggest debuts in the science world could happen in a matter of weeks: The Higgs boson...
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Tending the Body’s Microbial Garden
For a century, doctors have waged war against bacteria, using antibiotics as their weapons. But that relationship is changing...
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Once-Green Sahara Hosted Early African Dairy Farms
The sandy dunes of the Sahara may seem an unlikely place for a dairy farm, but about 7,000 years...
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Rudimentary Liver Grown in vitro
Japanese scientists have used induced stem cells to create a liver-like tissue in a dish. Although they have yet...
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Red List Counts ‘On the Brink’ Species
East Asia’s status as the world’s main “extinction hotspot” is confirmed in the new Red List of Threatened Species,...
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Euclid Mission to Probe Universe’s Darkest Secrets Approved
The first-ever mission dedicated to looking for dark matter and dark energy, two mysterious entities believed to explain the...
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Warming, Melting Sea Ice Threaten Antarctic’s Emperor Penguins
The Emperor penguin’s future is looking bleak if global temperatures continue to rise and melt sea ice, scientists have...