Science is supposed to make the world feel more understandable, but sometimes it does the opposite. Ancient viruses frozen in ...

Question: As a life science teacher, I have responsibility for the way that students think about how life works. When my experience of yoga conflicts with conventional science, I do my best to tread ...

Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, struggled to answer simple questions about science during his confirmation hearing Thursday. During his hearing before ...

The question of whether science and religion are at odds or generally compatible has long been a topic of interest to philosophers, theologians and scientists, among others. In the Religious Landscape ...

The blog led to the 2014 book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, a collection of bizarre queries that Munroe doggedly researched and answered. By tying together a ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a philosophy he calls “recreational biology.” Inside Manu Prakash are two ...