Search results for

The hypercompetitive world of biomedical research occasionally drives scientists to cheat. More often, scientists make decisions that undercut their results. That can lead colleagues astray.

With the help of federal flood insurance, many homeowners will rebuild after disasters. Some properties already have flooded many times. It'd be cheaper to buy owners out, but that's not happening.

With 40 percent of its students at risk of failing, one radical new high school in Washington, D.C., wrestles with whether to lower its own high expectations.

Steve Inskeep talks to Rep. Peter DeFazio of Oregon, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, about President Trump's infrastructure plan.

Molly McCully Brown, who has cerebral palsy, says that if she'd been born in a different era, she might have been sent to the "Virginia State Colony," an early landmark of the U.S. eugenics movement.

The deadline was Monday but Congress has stalled on taking action. Steve Inskeep talks to Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, about what's next.

It's violent, formulaic and lightly repellent. But come on, you knew that already.

Jeb Bush is the son of a president and the brother of another, but there's more to know about the former Florida governor — and how different he is from the two past Bush presidents.

Human trafficking … at first thought, visions of women from foreign countries locked up in basements in big cities like Washington, D.C., may come to…

Scientists are convening to debate whether experiments that make some viruses more contagious in order to advance understanding of potential outbreaks are worth the risk of creating one.