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Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE inventors built a 21st-century medical device that can diagnose dozens of diseases from the palm of your hand. ...

Just as the clothes we wear and the restaurants we visit follow trends, the illicit drugs we ingest cycle in and out of fashion. I ...

Alex Spencer has earned thousands of dollars as a research subject. “That vein right here on the left side of my left arm ha ...

Climate scientist Ben Horton came from England to work in the United States because of the strength of the science here. Now, he’s ...

Once a month, 40 or so executive types break from their regular routines to meet up for the day. There’s schmoozing, a catered lunc ...

Quirk Books Producer: Michael O’Reilly Quirk Books is headquartered on a quiet cobblestone street in ...

Last summer, Pennsylvania pastor Gary Dull was one of the hundreds of evangelical Christians who filled a ballroom in New York City to he ...

Every state in the country offers tax breaks and other incentives to lure businesses that will create jobs. One estimate found the progra ...

Covering Congress and the White House is a busy gig these days.  But it’s a job Washington Post reporter Robert Costa has embr ...

After the advent of big box store booksellers and online retail giants, small independent bookstores learned to survive – not by se ...

Fathers don’t just function as male mothers — they provide a kind of caregiving that’s unique to dads. When Eric Ben ...

The brown-headed cowbird is one of the most hated birds in the entirety of the animal kingdom.  Each springtime, when most bi ...

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...

Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...

Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...