In 1969, lower-income households tended to be nonwhite and in the U.S. South. That still holds true today.
As researchers sift through conflicting data, no clear answers emerge on whether birth control during teenage years can cause depression later.
Editors of six major scientific journals argue that a rule proposed by the U.S. EPA may keep key data from factoring into environmental regulations.
In a Pew Research survey, most Americans said the U.S. government isn’t doing enough to counter climate change amid local weather extremes.
Fossils of the South African hominids Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi are on display at the Perot Museum of Science and History in Dallas.
A search warrant issued by a state judge in Florida gives police access to DNA profiles of over a million Americans in a public genealogy database.
Early Catholic Church decrees transformed families and may help explain why Western societies today tend to be individualistic and nonconformist.
While mass shootings grab U.S. headlines, the steady scourge of inner-city gun violence gets less attention — and fewer solutions.
Better sensing tech on power lines and reliance on more local power sources could help avoid vast power outages like those in California in October.