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

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

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...

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Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who...

Players in today’s National Football League are bigger and faster than ever — and that means devastating collisions on the gridiron. The health...

In Kansas City and across the country, anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse of August 21. It parallels the nation’s fervor in 1878,...

Nobody knows more about the four-legged star of Groundhog Day than Kenneth Armitage. An emeritus professor of behavioral eco...

There is a way to address climate change -- we have the needed technology and financing -- but is there enough collective will? Can a society...