Health & Science

Researchers at Massachussetts General Hospital and other institutions are gaining a better understanding of & ...

Larry Molnar, an astronomy professor at Calvin College, announced last week that he and his students are foll ...

His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...

An octopus does not think with its arms, per say, but it comes pretty close. The majority of octopuses’ neurons are not centrally l ...

Dave Heller and Dr. Pitts start by discussing some amazing exoplanet discoveries. In 2017, we can look forward to NASA launching TESS (Tr ...

The news can sound dire. Opioid addiction is ruining families and taking lives at an ever increasing rate. In this roundtable discussion ...

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Carrie Fisher’s death at 60 came as a shock. Known as Princess (and later, General) Leia to generations of Star Wars fans, sh ...

Join us as we recap the top astronomy-related stories of 2016. 1. A potentially habitable planet was discovered orbiting the close ...

“Heroin has destroyed my life, and I don’t even use the stuff.” When I heard my mom’s friend say that, my ...

Disruptive technology is here to stay, but not all trades necessarily benefit from it. Psychotherapy is one such field.

December 25 marks Christmas Day and December mini-moon day! The moon was at apogee, or the greatest distance from Earth (for the month).< ...

The Winter Solstice arrives on Wednesday at 5:44 am. It marks the northern hemisphere’s greatest axial tilt away from the sun, prod ...

About a year ago I interviewed a woman who volunteers at a church-sponsored soup kitchen in Center City. The essay, “ ...

With approximately one in 10 Americans having a problem with addiction, the odds are that someone at your holiday celebration this year struggles with substance abuse.