In 1897, Nelson and Lorraine Cornish left Oakland and came to Santa Cruz to live. When they saw the 31-year-old Methodist Church empty and for sale, Lorraine felt it was a sign. They bought the ...

If these podcasts really wanted to nurture enthusiasm for science, they should celebrate the hard work that goes into finding ...

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 ...

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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 ...

Whiteness is a malady that few people even recognize as a malady. It is so pervasive and relentless that it seems like there is no way to imagine life without or beyond its power. Christians have ...

Does alcohol enhance one's foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual ...

Michael Faraday, despite his initial background as a chemist, made significant contributions to the understanding of electricity and magnetism. Faraday's self-education, beginning with an ...

The SETI Institute Data Science team plays a central role in the data processing pipelines for both NASA's Kepler and TESS science processing pipelines. We also actively develop pipelines for several ...

P. Jenniskens, SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center; and M. Breukers and C. Johannink, Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS), BeNeLux, report that the chi Cygnids meteor shower (IAU ...

Researchers from the University of Chicago have discovered a way to turn a fluorescent protein into a biological qubit that can be built directly inside a cell, then used as a way to detect magnetic ...