Dr. Collins is a former director of the National Institutes of Health and the author of “The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust,” from which this essay is adapted. See more of our ...

Are space science, cosmology and astronomy just guesswork?

Just as America roils and frets over the election of a divisive and power-hungry president, a new book charts a path back to civility and commonality of interests. The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, ...

Francis Collins, former director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the National Human Genome Project, combined secular thought and religious beliefs at a BYU forum address on Jan. 27. He ...

Discover the meaning of Albert Einstein's famous quote on science, truth and understanding and why it remains relevant for ...

Pope Leo XIV, in a message to participants of an international bioethics conference, issued a call for scientists to ‘contribute to the search for truth, so that science may remain at the service of ...

In the wake of administrative upheaval for federal health and safety departments, former National Institutes of Health director and geneticist Francis Collins is coming to Spokane to discuss the ...

My recent chat with John Batchelor broached the important subject of flawed, non-reproducible scientific studies that find their way into journals. It seems that replicating results is as rare as ...

You’ve probably heard that humans only use 10% of their brains, that cracking your knuckles causes arthritis, or that the Great Wall of China is visible from space. These “facts” are so widespread ...