Sometimes a single episode reveals much about the big picture. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision on Sunday to cancel a ministerial committee vote on legislation that would ...

In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around ...

An ancient strain of bacteria found frozen in a remote Transylvanian cave offers both a tantalizing opportunity to develop new weapons against so-called "superbugs" and a chilling warning about what ...

Bacteria lurk everywhere. However, it’s only after researchers retrieve them from the most remote corners of the Earth that we can learn more about the risks and potentials they pose. When researchers ...

Public schools have been barred from sponsoring official prayer since the Supreme Court’s 1962 ruling in Engel v. Vitale, a landmark decision that cemented the principle of church-state separation in ...

(RNS) — In Minneapolis, many Native people say they are reluctant to leave their homes for fear of being detained by federal ICE agents. (RNS) — On Sunday (Feb. 1), a group of dancers in dresses ...

After Arizona school board members were shut down for praying at governing meetings, Republicans in the Legislature want to make sure it doesn't happen again. GOP lawmakers advanced a bill that would ...