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Science should inform our decisions on what constitutes new dietary guidelines, but invoking science as an arbiter for questions of values isn’t just misguided, it’s dangerous, says Tania Lombrozo.

A federal jury in Richmond, Va., has found former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell guilty on 11 of 14 charges in his corruption trial. His wife, Maureen, was found guilty on nine of 14 charges, including obstruction of justice.

Four mathematicians were today awarded the Fields Medal, including Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, the first female mathematician to be given the honor that’s often called math’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

The diminutive Galapagos finches had a problem: The larvae of a parasitic nest fly were killing off their hatchlings. A scientist, with the help of crowdfunding, had a solution: offer the birds insecticide-laced nest-building material.

Four new insect species found in Brazil have rather strange sex lives — to say the least. Their sex organs are reversed: Females have penises and males have vaginas, scientists reported Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

New England is getting a hard glancing blow from a huge winter storm that has generated hurricane-force winds and such adjectives as “mind-blowing” and “monster” from normally mild-mannered meteorologists.

The divide between Republicans and Democrats on their views of the scientific theory of evolution is widening, according to a new poll released by Pew’s Religion & Public Life Project.