With so many truly existential threats to the democracy unfolding during what is supposed to be the final vacation week before the post-Labor Day rush, it seems almost wrong to get worked up watching ...

This story about humans and elephants was told to me by my late mother, Beta Leelawathie, in 1980. It is not a folktale.  This story really took place nearly seven decades ago, when the phrase ...

Two departing scientific leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say political interference at the agency remains a problem. Dr. Debra Houry and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis resigned ...

In a landmark achievement for Sri Lankan science, a team of local researchers has identified Culex (Lophoceraomyia) cinctellus, a rare mosquito species, in the country for the very first time. The ...

President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington D.C. and other big cities has come as views of his handling of immigration — the early focus of his second term — had been ...