I came to faith because of magnets. I was raised in a family that found no conflict between faith and science. It was only when I was older that I learned that...
Science and technology
On a cold, overcast December day, I found myself taking in with delight the natural world of millions of years ago during a visit to Pittsburgh’s Carnegie...
In our day concerns about ecology are rising. Climate change, pollution, and extinction of plant and animal species make us question harmful human treatment of...
When Heather Camm, a chemistry teacher at an all-girls Catholic high school, began designing a new, year-long course in scientific ethics, she knew she would...
Ecologist Reuben Keller knows that caring for the planet requires thinking beyond the environmental sciences. Trek up to Reuben Keller’s Chicago office, and...
When I was a college freshman—at the time a liberal arts major—my creative writing instructor told us that the way to learn how to write stories was to read...
In 2014 a New York advertising agency created the NoPhone, which is a $12 plastic rectangle that looks like a smartphone. Initially marketed as a satirical...
Online social activism isn’t limited to the under-35 set. There’s one older leader who has become famous for it: Pope Francis. Over...
Imagine if we were able to see evolution as a sign of the unlimited potential of God’s creation, rather than a threat to our limited point of view. For the...
The latest Marvel blockbuster, Avengers: Age of Ultron, predictably packed them in when it opened in May. In this latest chapter of the superhero series, the...
