Senator Joseph McCarthy built his reputation on fear-mongering, smear campaigns, and falsehoods about government employees and their associates.

The bog is where forensics and archaeology meet to solve “cold cases.”

In 1924, Edwin Hubble found proof that the Milky Way isn't the only galaxy in the Universe.

Federal support for broadband expansion reflects the understanding that communication is as vital as roadways to the republic.

On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass gave a Fourth of July speech that became his most famous public oration.

In June 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith criticized Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist campaigns. She was the first of his colleagues to challenge his Red Scare rhetoric.

We need to start thinking about how to live with internet trolls even while we look for ways to reduce or eliminating trolling. 

I could not bring myself to accept string theory’s claim, often presented as a scientific fact, that there are exactly 11 dimensions.

The early promise of stem cells might finally be overcoming controversy and paying off.