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Thursday, June 25, 2015, at 7 p.m.This "Context" public affairs event takes a closer look at Illinois' medical cannabis pilot program approved by state…

Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti surpassed a space endurance record for a female spacefarer.

A Greyhound bus stop at Northern Illinois University's student center went into effect last week. The bus line goes from the Quad Cities to Chicago and…

If you've got a life-threatening medical condition, your first call might not be to an economist. But Alvin Roth used a theory about matching markets to help connect kidney patients and donors.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg says it's fitting that the Scripps National Spelling Bee is broadcast by ESPN. (And, by the way, a thamakau is a kind of canoe used in Fiji.)

Illinois lawmakers have a couple of weeks left to reach a resolution on the state budget. If they don't get it done by the end of June, the comptroller...

From Paleo to vegan to raw, nutrition gurus package their advice as sound science. But peel the studies away and you'll find timeless myths and superstitions of religion.

"Art car" events started as small, motorized processions of hippie artists, and have grown into an almost cult-like phenomenon.

We take our weekly look at how the news is reverberating through social media with Julia Turner, editor in chief of Slate.

Graphic images showing the effects of melanoma, combined with photos promoting the positives of avoiding indoor tanning, were more persuasive than standard text warnings.