There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

A new study, published on Arxiv, has deepened the cosmic puzzle surrounding the “Hubble tension,” an ongoing debate about the universe’s expansion rate. The findings come from the Atacama Cosmology ...

"It means cleaning house, narrowing the viable paths forward, and no longer spending energy on what are evidently dead ends." ...

Gerrymandering is almost as old as the US republic itself. It’s the process of drawing electoral district lines in sometimes absurd ways to fortify one political party at the expense of another.

An argument for why the Supreme Court should strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act for a better brand of politics.

Texas officials had asked the court to allow the state to use the new maps in the midterm elections, part of a push by ...

The court’s conservative majority said that Texas’ asserted political motives justified letting the state use voting maps ...

The Supreme Court’s endorsement of how Texas Republicans redrew the state’s congressional map is offering hope to California Democrats as they prepare to defend their map in court this month – and ...

Federal judges have allowed North Carolina to use a redrawn congressional map designed to give Republicans an additional U.S.

In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Pessimism about the country's future has risen in cities since last year, but rural America is more optimistic about what's ahead for the U.S., according to a new survey from ...

Discover the 10 macro explanations behind America's political polarization, systemic dysfunction, and media distrust. A ...