Hélène Landemore of Yale University believes she has a radical proposal to make democracy work. In this week’s, Dr. David ...

About a year ago, it seemed the sky was falling for American scientific research. The Trump administration last February cut thousands of workers at federal science agencies, squeezed the flow of ...

Scientists are now using computer simulations to study how religions form, spread, and change over time. Instead of asking theological questions, researchers model human behavior, social pressure, and ...

Religious faith is a fundamental part of many academics’ identities, but some are nervous of talking about it at work. Elaine Howard Ecklund, a sociologist who studies attitudes towards religion in ...

(RNS) — Would you buy a house where you knew there had been a murder? Researchers asked that question and found that 64% of Americans would be disinclined to take such a step. That discomfort held ...

According to Tom McKone (“Science, religion or both?”), “science is all about evidence, asking questions, collecting objective information, and drawing conclusions. It can take us pretty far, but it ...

Of the few guiding axioms of Nigerian politics, perhaps none is more indelible than the idea that you cannot understand the Nigerian society without reference to religion. The more you know about ...

“Does God exist?” is a question of science and reason, not faith and belief, say Olivier Bonnassies and Michel-Yves Bolloré. The two Frenchmen, coauthors of God, the Science, the Evidence: The Dawn of ...

Is climate science actually a religion? The Trump administration would like you to think so. Earlier this year, Lee Zeldin, Trump’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced a ...

Americans who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) tend to be less religious than those who are not LGBT. In addition, adults who are lesbian, gay or bisexual have more negative views than ...

The United States is one of many countries struggling with declining birth rates and this is partly because more people are abandoning religion, population and religion experts told Newsweek. There ...