“Greenhouse gases” may grab the headlines, but other factors are known to play important roles in climate change as well.

Oil isn’t the only resource that helps shape the peace and regulate the balance of power in the Middle East.

An amazing technology promises freedom from our more troubling genetic predispositions.

Information revealed through the decoding of DNA 50 years ago has been astounding, but there is still much to be learned. Is science up to the challenge?

The science of how our bodies operate at the chemical level is technically complex, but the landmarks of the cellular processes are fairly simple.

Nkosi Johnson’s name almost always comes up when talking about HIV/AIDS in South Africa. Vision interviewed his foster mother, Gail Johnson, after his death.

Nicolaus Copernicus wanted to correct the science of astronomy, even though that might invite the wrath of the most powerful intellectual elite.

The family farm is all but disappearing from the American landscape, and with it a unique and vital breed: the independent farmer.

Most in the scientific community consider evolution a fact. But is it good science, or bad philosophy?

Is human life the result of many coincidences and random chance? Or is it instead the fine-tuning of the laws that govern it which have led to our existence?