Social scientists have long studied how children develop a sense of trust in others and how they judge whether someone they are talking to is telling the truth. Less attention has been devoted to how ...

“Whose decision is it to withhold thousands of grants and billions in funding for life-saving medical research at [the National Institutes of Health] that we approved on a bipartisan basis in this ...

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Fremont family spent six months fighting with their school district over multiple-choice answers on their son's honors chemistry ...

Despite what Andrew Buncce says in his Sept. 17 letter, evolution is a fact. It was arrived at through an exhaustive and diligent search for the truth. It is supported by the vast weight of scientific ...

In “Origins of Totalitarianism,” Hanna Arendt (1951) writes: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between ...