A 20-year field study of the African superb starling (Lamprotornis superbus) found striking evidence that birds often switch breeding roles from year to year by taking turns as ‘breeders’ or ...

Superb starlings help care for the offspring of birds they are not related to. “To me, that sounds like friendship,” one scientist said. By Asher Elbein True friends, most people would agree ...

The Catholic Church is not dying from persecution. It is dying from confusion. Under Pope Francis, ambiguity became policy. Tradition was treated as baggage, and doctrine was left to the ...

The Catholic Church announced that priests will be excommunicated if they follow a new Washington state law requiring clergy to report confessions about child abuse to law enforcement.

The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States. The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and ...

Dennis Doyle does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Yet, for African starlings, the bonds they form go far beyond mere parenting duties. We know animals form helping relationships with direct blood relatives. However, the occurrence of long-running ...

Some of these locations generate a special snow block called powder snow. It is a dangerous yet fascinating block since it can hurt players and most mobs, but it has some interesting uses and ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Roughly 50 members of World Mission Society Church of God from Iwilei used muscle, manpower, and grit to pull out massive vegetation from Waipahu Canal along Waipahu Street.

Above, a pool of blue light from a stained-glass window illuminates a balcony where the St. Mary of the Assumption Church choir — including a young boy who would later become the first American ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as leader of the Catholic Church in the Sistine Chapel, a day after he was elected the first American pontiff by the papal conclave. Robert Prevost ...