Science

As federal funding for scientific research declines, the shift to the private sector may spark innovation—but it also risks basic research slipping into the world of industrial secrets.

We are less afraid of nuclear power than we should be.

Should grief be conceptualized as a medical disorder? What are the likely consequences of treating it this way?

Human thought marks nature coming to know itself. As stewards of creation, we are also stewards of consciousness.

In the AI era, we face the prospect of a servile dehumanization, of giving up activities that bring human beings a deep sense of joy, satisfaction, and connection.

The human genome is sloppy—and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Science’s threat to faith is actually no threat at all.

Can we ever really know what it is like to be a mole, a tick, or a bird?

How should faith leaders and policymakers respond to the rise of AI? A bishop and a White House official sit down for a dialogue on algorithms and human dignity.

For Fr. Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, fundamental theology should incorporate the methods of scientists as well as philosophers in exploring basic doctrine.

Religious experience and beliefs offer ways of addressing a human need and materially improving our circumstances.

PFAS chemicals are increasingly prevalent and dangerous, but the industry that makes them has resisted regulation.

Yaa Gyasi’s second novel is both a story of migration and a novel of ideas.

Living with a rare heart condition led Gabriel Brownstein to chart the advances in coronary medicine over the centuries.

Catholics may accept evolution now, but it wasn’t always so. The bunker-mentality of nineteenth-century Neo-Scholasticism damaged Catholic theology for decades.

Humans are hardly the ‘rational actors’ social scientists pretend they are. With COVID-19 cases rising again, epidemiologist Joshua Epstein proposes another model.