Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way that radically transforms it. The right work can make a subject that’s never ...

Scientific progress in 2023 spanned medicine, astronomy, and biology. Two new Alzheimer’s treatments demonstrated measurable slowing of cognitive decline, offering cautious optimism in a field long ...

Researchers studying a deep-sea octopus called Muusoctopus robustus have found thousands of the animals congregating at hydrothermal springs near an underwater mountain off California, raising fresh ...

The Genki Ala Wai Project was started in 2019 with the goal of making the Ala Wai Canal fishable and swimmable by 2026.

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The study examined how the octopuses' behaviour changed when they were given the drug, and had some surprising results ...

Harvard engineers think they've found the reason basketball shoes squeak, and it's due to pockets of friction between the rubber and the court.