This story launches a new accountability series, Just Neighbors, examining the city’s homeless encampment sweeps and focusing on the human impact of a fragmented, interdepartmental process. At their ...

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A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests could have quickly formed in the presence of compounds called borates. When ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

I am a nature lover. When I was a kid, I spent hours flipping rocks looking for creepy-crawlies, and my wife and I have always lived in homes surrounded by woods. And these days, I like nothing better ...

The city is offering warming centers as the Chicago area experiences dangerously cold conditions on Thursday. Temperatures are dropping to the teens and single digits with wind chills as low as -20 ...

Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public’s trust in science, old arguments are resurfacing that can sow confusion. As a statistician involved in ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. Photo: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images/Marco Iacobucci/Zuma Press/David Paul Morris/Bloomberg ...

Newspaper boxes in Chicago are staging a comeback, but they won’t be carrying newspapers. This time, the mission is different. It’s about saving lives. The Chicago Department of Public Health, in ...

During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion. The illusion is simple: one long horizontal line is flanked by arrowheads on ...

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...