Imagine resurrecting a long-debunked myth, slapping a fresh coat of pseudoscience on it, and dropping it just in time to sway ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

Given that Massachusetts has lower birth and marriage rates than the national average, the lack of funding for infrastructure could impact the state's economy, a UMass Amherst professor says.

Smart scientists sign up to study the natural world and end up professional fundraisers for higher-education. To call it a ...

Faculty Senate members criticized a presentation on AI’s role in academia, while University leaders advised faculty to ...

O n a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion ...

Fans of Scientific American might have hoped that activist journalism would leave the magazine along with former editor Laura ...

I’m up on Cape Cod, and I get a message from one of my staff saying, “You don’t want to see this, but you better read it.” It ...

Respectful and constructive dialogue is vanishing from American political life. There is, arguably, no more urgent question ...

The Village Bohemian counterculture movement in the late 19th century and early 20th, with its artistic creativity and ...

Dr. Mark Rankin teaches British literature, focusing mainly in the early modern period. The main way politics exist in his classes is through looking at the way that the politics of the authors and ...

In India, tigers haven't just survived they're making a comeback. Despite a growing population and increasing pressure on their habitats, the number of wild tigers is rising. The reason? According to ...