Is the discovery of the Higgs particle what Joe Biden would describe as a big. . . deal?

In a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients with serious illness were asked to identify what was most important to them during the dying process.

Neuroscience wants to be the answer to everything. It isn't.

In 2010 an eminent Chicago IVF doctor left his practice of creating babies in Petri dishes. This is his story.

According to an article published by the BMJ Journal of Medical Ethics, currently getting a lot of press, it's all right to kill babies.

God invites us to entrust ourselves to him, so that we might be courageous and authentically open to the gift of life he sends us in the midst of the marital embrace.

Without Norman Borlaug's high-yield agriculture, millions would have starved.

The conflict between science and religion as a hypothesis has been rejected by practically every scholar in the field. Why is there such a rift between academic opinion and popular perception? And what has been the real relationship between science and religion?

Indignation over sex-selection shows that abortion is not just a private matter.

The "morning-after" pill, also known as "Plan B," is often provided in hospital emergency rooms to women who have been sexually assaulted.