A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan divide over science has widened dramatically. While 77% of Americans have at ...

“. . . in thinking about an ethical framework, we may do well to transfer our attention from an individual-focused system that sees the problem as how to hold individuals to proper standards of ...

Since humanity's earliest days, people have looked up at the stars, using science, art, religion, philosophy, mathematics, and any other tool at their disposal to better understand the complicated and ...

For decades, debates about consciousness have been driven by elegant theories and small, carefully controlled experiments. Now a large-scale analysis of existing research is forcing a harder question: ...

Dr. Jane Turner, a forensic pathologist, says her views on the "absolute" certainty of shaken baby syndrome have evolved over the years. (Bryan Birks for NBC News ) Brian Wharton, the chief detective ...