Expert Voices: Op Ed & Insights

As the pandemic raged in April, churchgoers in Ohio defied warnings not to congregate. But what do psychologists have to say about strong beliefs in a god?

COVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight days later.

The Southern Appalachian mountains are a global biodiversity hot spot for salamanders. And now a skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate them.

Two large recent studies show that people hospitalized for COVID-19 in March were more than three times as likely to die as people hospitalized for COVID–19 in August.

Here's how the U.S. electoral college came to be.

The presidential elections of 1876, 1888, 1960 and 2000 were among the most contentious in American history. Here's why.

A new study looks at one hypothesis explaining why humans' body temperatures have been on the decline. Here's what it found.

Here's why black holes are the scariest objects in the universe.

Our sun's death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it's going to happen, and what then for our solar system?

While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion research industry to implode or wither away.