When you look at Notre Dame's football roster you see last names of football stars from yesteryear all over the place. The sons of NFL greats Jerome Bettis, Bryant Young, Plaxico Burress, and plenty ...

Sacramento City Council weighed the merits of a large industrial development in North Natomas on Tuesday as environmentalists, developers and laborers argued for or against the controversial project.

Some days, you have to take what the river will give you, like the crappies Doug Newhoff is holding. (Randy Randall) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words ...

The question of whether human behavior is driven by innate biological forces or the product of our learning and environment has been a popular discussion at cocktail parties and scientific conferences ...

For more than a century, scientists have debated whether intelligence is mostly a product of nature or nurture. Identical twins—those born with the same genetic blueprint—have long been the perfect ...

We’re celebrating 180 years of Scientific American. Explore our legacy of discovery and look ahead to the future. Travel involves two main expenditures of energy: fighting gravity and propelling ...

During the holiday break, my extended family (i.e., my parents and three brothers and their wives and children) got together at a large ranch house in the North Carolina mountains. We had a good time ...

I might be that annoying friend — the one who always wants to fact-check something. I’m not usually trying to be obnoxious, I just want to make sure I’m getting the correct information, especially ...

Star Parker, a columnist for The Daily Signal, is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That ...

An age-old conundrum regarding raising children is the issue of nature versus nurture. That is, do genes determine a child's success in life, or is it the environment in which that child is raised? Or ...

One recent hot morning a light wind was blowing yellow leaves off walnut and poplar trees. It had been hot and humid for several days, which accounts for some of the yellow leaves, but these leaf ...