Health & Science

At this time of year when we think about our nation’s independence, let’s look at what independence means in our lives. Your first s ...

The Sun will be at its furthest annual distance from the Earth next Monday afternoon – 94,506,507 miles. Heading outdoors to ...

Determination, individualism – work hard you’ll get ahead and get a piece of the American pie. Those are hallmarks of our society ...

Our region reached the maximum hours of daylight for the year yesterday. We lose two seconds today; a minute by the end of the week, and ...

Bro-mances, buddy films –that’s the Hollywood picture of male friendship — but what do men really need to have an intimate rela ...

If we lived on a planet that orbited a lone star outside of a galaxy, a starless night sky would be possible. Now astronomers have discov ...

Fatherhood will be celebrated this month on Father’s Day. For many, fathers and father figures are key to supporting and raising childr ...

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Pluto. Ahead of the July 14th close approach; astronomers recently learned more abo ...

Some of us are fortunate to have good neighbors. They’re the folks we chat with, invite over, borrow a cup of sugar from, and do f ...

NASA plans to send a three-year orbital mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa as early as 2022. It’s at the top of the list of mos ...

500,000 quasars (quasi-stellar radio sources) have been detected – including 100 binaries, two triples, and now – one quad. A ...

Female soldiers are returning from deployment in record numbers, according to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of ...

The dwarf planet Pluto will be visited by New Horizons this summer, with the closest approach scheduled for June 14th. This complet ...

What is HOSPICE care really and is there an art to dying? Can death be the final act of living fully? Nina McKissock is an RN and writes ...

Astronomers use data from the Keck Telescope to identify the most distant object in the universe ever observed – it’s an eigh ...