Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Read Karl Giberson's piece, "The Evangelical Rejection of Reason," in The New York Times Some Evangelical Christians see a public assault on their beliefs with the rise of gay marriage, the increasing ...

Proteins that make amyloids can bend and twist into a variety of shapes in the process. Two new papers, in the March 9 Science and March 8 PNAS online, describe structures for a cylindrical oligomer ...

Several details regarding the structure and operational methods of the “parallel state” or Gulen movement have been revealed by Turkish security sources. The parallel state, known also by the initials ...

Deputy Prime Minister Besnik Bislimi tells BIRN that Serbia is still boosting Belgrade-run structures in Kosovo – and the EU-led dialogue won’t make progress until they are dissolved. As the European ...

Chinese researchers are poring over a puzzling gravitational wave signal that appears to defy the standard script of black hole collisions, reviving one of physics’ most audacious possibilities: that ...

“Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh what a relief it is.” You might have thought that only the pill that goes with that jingle creates relief. But science suggests the jingle’s wording itself elicits relief.