Without a shared understanding of reality, we become ungovernable. And if we lose truth, we risk losing the republic.

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The "Nation's Report Card" by the National Assessment of Education Progress shows that math and reading scores of U.S. high ...

Compared to the amount of time the universe, or even life, has been around, humans really haven't been around for that long. Don't believe us? Read on.

A new era in science is emerging, one that returns the study of the mind to the center of the conversation for psychology, ...

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Gary Saul Morson on the Soviet politicization of science.

Immigration is shaping Chicago in profound ways — from the arrival of new migrant populations to the evolving role of city ...

Kentucky Waterways Alliance is helping remove low-head dams, like they did in Vine Grove. The city had a low-head dam that sat on Brushy Fork for more than 100 years.

Self-correction and cultural reflexivity are crucial to psychology’s scientific role.

They say that when a tyrant dies, vultures circle the corpse. When a fighter for truth dies, irony drowns the world: only ...