A little noticed surveillance technology, designed to track the movements of every passing driver, is fast proliferating on America’s streets. Automatic license plate readers, mounted on police cars ...

How many Americans show up in public life – and in what ways? We looked across a range of behaviors from civic involvement to religious attendance and found that rather than falling along a single ...

A global experiment tests how humanity could live across the solar system, by dropping volunteers into some of Earth’s most extreme environments. Nearly all tea comes from one plant, yet there are ...