Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

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Kansans refuse to shake up their state supreme court, which has protected abortion rights and where a majority more amenable to voting rights cases may be emerging.

Aging parents need more than practical help. They want to feel understood, respected, and supported without losing their independence.

A new scale reveals how much we think and act like a Stoic.

ALT: Plastic Ocean Pollution Crisis

How your memories impact your immune system, why moving is one of the most stressful life-events, and what your parents have to do with your predisposition to PTSD.

Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist,…

“It is a vocation to become fully awake, even more than the common somnolence permits one to be, with its arbitrary selection of approved dreams, mixed with a few really valid and fruitful co…

“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”

“We are bathing in mystery and confusion… That will always be our destiny. The universe will always be much richer than our ability to understand it.”

How a confused romancer that survived the Ice Age became a tropical sensation and took over the world.

“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

Senate Bill 105 appears to give Republican power brokers a get-out-of-jail free card in this year's U.S. Senate race.

An antidote to the civilizational compulsions that rob human nature of nature.

The Vikings are coming.

Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a reso…