A highly abridged monthly version of Dust & Stars.

“Nearly all critical scholars agree at least on those points about the historical Jesus,” Bart D. Ehrman wrote, even as the ...

Science writer Ned Rozell is hitting the trail for a monthlong adventure that will hopefully take him from his home in Fairbanks to Nome.

Arizona's Senate passed a measure that would allow voters to decide on firing squad executions, a method proponents call humane.

The murder that Christa Pike was convicted of demonstrated a brutality and callousness not often seen in women, let alone one ...

One year ago, Louisiana broke a fifteen-year silence on executions by debuting nitrogen hypoxia. Officials called Jessie Hoffman Jr.’s death “flawless,” yet their own reports noted “convulsive ...

“One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea [Pontius Pilate],” scholar Bart Ehrman wrote, a line often cited because it captures an ...

Archaeologists excavating in Rome's Ostiense necropolis found three skeletons with iron nails on their chests, hinting at a ritual to prevent restless spirits.

Alabama plans to execute Charles Lee “Sonny” Burton with nitrogen gas in March for a murder committed during a robbery of an AutoZone in 1991, the state's governor has announced. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey ...

Meet the 220 students nominated for acting, musical theater performance or the design of costumes, sets, sound or lighting.

Businesses tend to overinvest in what already works, which can weaken adaptation over time. Success and stability can set up some organizations for failure ...

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences hosted their first annual Academy Awards on May 16, 1929 — a short, 15-minute ceremony at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with tickets that cost the ...