While conspiracy theories about Ginger Goodwin’s death may interest some, these complicated explanations deflect our attention from real issues.

Immigrant artist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot used his skills to accurately represent the details—and the sublimity—of our solar system.

The award-winning prison newspaper has long covered topics like prison policy, the death penalty, the societal cost of mass incarceration, that are still relevant today.

Now a familiar part of policing, the partnership between canines and cops developed in an unpredictable fashion.

New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.

The universe is full of black holes. Even the Milky Way has one, and we now have a picture of it. Don't panic, but it looks like a blurry glazed donut.

As problems caused by climate change become more acute, so too does the eco-anxiety of the world's youth.

The long, little-known history of Muslim women in communal religious life.

Moralists found it easy to criticize Spanish men, particularly the high-born among them, for all sorts of supposed failures of masculinity.

A practicing physician reviews contributions of Jewish ethics and rabbinic thought to the issue of abortion.