Humanity has always lived with risk, but for most of history those dangers were local, temporary, and survivable. What has changed is that our technology, our numbers, and our impact on the planet now ...

Faith and science can go hand in hand as long as science is put at the service of humanity and not used to hurt or extinguish human life, Pope Francis said. Science and faith are two distinct and ...

There is an unnerving sound embedded into two of Dario Robleto’s latest artworks. It’s a bleak drone that lives in a melancholy space between a hum and a whir, conjuring mental images of endless, ...

WARRENSVILLE HEIGHTS, Ohio—Perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived, Isaac Newton, believed in intelligent design, working his entire life to demonstrate that the union of science and the divine ...

Yale ornithologist Richard Prum firmly believes that science and the humanities can work in concert to help people better understand the world. His own research on birds as aesthetic agents inspired ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific sesamoid bone in a hummingbird? Can you identify closed syllables in Biblical ...

Remember the story about the elephant seen from different perspectives? Here’s a twist. A biologist with a telescope peered at the animal and said, I see a hairy grayness horizon to horizon. A toenail ...