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Each month we turn to our colleagues at the journal Nature for a tour of recent science headlines, complements of our friends at the journal Nature. This…

By Luu D. Ireland, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolThe abortion debate is at the center of…

Apollo astronauts brought home nearly 850 pounds of rocks and soil from the moon. Those samples forced scientists to throw out much of what they thought…

Five North Atlantic right whales have been found dead in the past week – six this month. With just over four hundred individuals remaining, and calving…

Here are the stories on Living Lab Radio for August 25 and 26, 2019. An American convicted of a federal crime is seven percent more likely to be sentenced…

Measles outbreaks around the country this year focused public attention on the risks of non-vaccination. In many places, anti-vaccine sentiment based on…

A U.N. special report on the impacts of climate change on the ocean sparked dire headlines such as UN report on world’ oceans is damning: We’re all in big…

Today's forecast included clouds, winds, temperatures. Nothing about ticks, or jellyfish, or whales. Nick Record, a senior research scientist at Bigelow…

Congress passed a bipartisan budget deal that covers two years, a remarkable feat considering the history of short-term budget resolutions. Then,…

Hurricane Sandy. It’s been called Frankenstorm and it’s causing flashbacks to the Perfect Storm of 1991, when a Halloween Nor’Easter absorbed Hurricane…