Science Textbook Controversies “In 1969 the California Board of Education issued new guidelines for the biology curriculum of the state’s public schools. The guidelines ...

Jet fuel prices are rising as the war in the Middle East disrupts global oil supplies, putting cost pressure on airlines as the busy summer travel season approaches. An airplane is refueled Nov. 23 at ...

The Star Wars prequels were pretty much universally derided upon their initial release, and may actually get a little too much hate considering how ambitious George Lucas’ trilogy was, but one thing ...

Some of the citations that underpin the science in the White House’s sweeping “MAHA Report” appear to have been generated using artificial intelligence, resulting in numerous garbled scientific ...

The creatures of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings possess a bewildering variety of names and terms, which can cause confusion. Orcs and Uruk-hai, for example, are essentially the same species, ...

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” The CIA calls it ...

Before computers, refrigerators, and modern medicine, basic menial tasks required human labor. People once relied on jobs like ice cutters and knocker-ups in their daily lives. Some jobs, like leech ...

The Atlantis story originates in Plato’s dialogues as a moral tale about hubris and decline, not an archaeological report. Modern Atlantis mythology expanded in the late 1800s through writers who ...