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There are tens of thousands of people in the United States who have been diagnosed as being in a vegetative state – unresponsive and unaware of their…

President Trump's announcement last week that he will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Agreement was not unexpected. Besides the fact that the news was…

Ever wondered how fireworks work? Fireworks expert John Conkling lays it all out - from what makes them go boom, to the chemistry behind those beautiful…

Which is older – beer or wine? And just how old is that? Based on the fact that some modern primates consume naturally fermented fruit juices, chances are…

2017 is shaping up to be one of the worst years on record for North Atlantic right whales, one of the most endangered large whale species. There are only…

Death may be inevitable. But what about aging? If we could figure out what biological switches get flipped to start the process of decline, could we…

It’s no secret that there are deep social and political divides in the U.S. What’s less clear, is what is driving the polarization.Carol Graham has spent…

More than 60,000 patients in the U.S. receive general anesthesia every day. But despite the fact that anaesthesia drugs, like ether, have been around for…

Nowhere is the gap between climate science and federal climate policy more obvious than at the Environmental Protection Agency. Administrator Scott Pruitt…

It’s no secret that Massachusetts has an affordable housing problem. In his 2018 State of the Commonwealth address, Governor Charlie Baker noted that “it…