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Steven Epstein discusses the politically-charged debate surrounding Gardasil and other vaccines on Thursday,...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts Dr. John M.R. Stone for a public dialogue about the climate change on Friday, Octob...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts a day-long bioethics symposium called Controversial Bodies: How to View Plastinated Corpses...

Celebrate your favorite books, movies, comics, and all things geeky at the afternoon-long Plaza PopCon.Come dressed as your...

After spending the past two weeks as local and national celebrities — saluted on the editorial page of The Kansas City Star and celebra...

Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton knows the wonders of our oceans and the weird and wondrous creatures that call it home. She also reco...

Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...

Forests produce lumber, shelter a dazzling variety of plant and animal life, and serve as our planet’s lungs, cleansing the atmosphere of carbon dioxi...

The United States remains the world’s pacesetter in science. The origins of many of its breakthroughs may surprise you, however. A sizable number o...