For as long as people have believed in heaven and hell, a debate has simmered.Religion makes people act better, supporters have long maintained. Religion poisons everything, an increasingly vocal—and youthful—minority responds.Long missing from the discord has been empirical evidence. Until now.

At first glance, the thousands upon thousands of leaf-cutter ants in Robert Schofield’s laboratory suggest nothing so much as chaos.

Kristin Yarris was interviewed regarding a study of rural women in Nicaragua and how they describe physical distress and symptoms of illness.

David Strom played a pivotal role in last summer’s monumental discovery of what is believed to be the elusive Higgs boson particle.

Claudia Holguín Mendoza conducted ethnographic research in her hometown of Juárez, the Mexican city infamous for narco violence.