These summer days have me feeling nostalgic for the summers of my youth, when I’d ride my bike to the local library for another stack of paperbacks.

These before and after satellite images show a small sample of the destruction of several areas in Gaza. The United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Program has also published damage assessment documents with a detailed count of destructed ...

A secular organization settled its lawsuit against the IRS for not enforcing the law, but the fight will likely continue.

Bill Weir's ill-advised tweet lit up the internet. Here's why he seems to care so much about science.

Do you wander around with a Glock on your hip, fantasizing about the day when you'll open fire on an armed assailant? Do you worry about how you will explain to your kids why you wander around with a Glock on your hip, fantasizing about the day ...

It used to make the desert bloom for vegetables and provide ample water for LA and Phoenix. But it's no longer up to the task.

Despite years of ceasefires and truces, the siege of Gaza has never been lifted.

Until yesterday, everyone in the international community was laughing at this engine and its inventor, Roger Sawyer. It's called the EmDrive and everyone said it was impossible because it went against the laws of physics. But the fact is that th ...

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Members of Britain's parliament say industry-funded research is compromising the fight to save pollinators

Just when we thought we'd heard it all, this guy opened his mouth. Bert Farias (pictured), founder of Holy Fire Ministries, claims to know the "raw, naked truth" about why people are gay: They are possessed by "fart demons." ...

This addition to your web browser won't let you forget the extent to which monied interests own Congress.

The ability of young children to distinguish fact from fiction varies considerably with exposure to religion, two new studies have found. Children who did not attend parochial (religious) schools or church were significantly better at identifying cha ...

A man says in a medical malpractice lawsuit against Princeton Baptist Medical Center, Urology Centers of Alabama and two doctors filed this week that he went in for a circumcision last month at Princeton and awoke to find his penis had instead been a ...

The types of books we read may affect how we relate to others

That the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is constant has been known to humanity since ancient times; yet, even today, despite 2000 years of thought, theories, calculations and proofs, π's precise value remains elusive.

Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Deveraux, over at The Intercept have a giant scoop: the full 166-page guidebook that US law enforcement uses to declare someone a terrorist who deserves to be on one of its various watchlists from the no-fly list to the...

From calligraphy to acoustic music, young artists are finding inspiration in the pre-digital age. While they won't revert to analogue entirely, some say learning the old tricks of the trade makes them more creative.

If you have ever sweated through a summer in the city, you can thank those skyscrapers all around. Tall buildings trap heat that create urban heat islands. But what if you could create a building that cools the city instead? A building skin made of a ...

A humble Los Angeles landmark meets a bizarrely fitting end