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Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers.

Moving cannabis to a category of drugs that includes some common medicines will have implications for research, businesses and patients. By Jan Hoffman President Trump on Thursday ordered cannabis to ...

Every movement you make and every memory you form depends on precise communication between neurons. When that communication is disrupted, the brain must rapidly rebalance its internal signaling to ...

Stocks tumbled on Monday, extending a dayslong slide. Stocks tumbled on Monday, extending a dayslong slide that presents a dilemma: Should investors buy in at bargain prices or unload in fear of worse ...

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Ever wonder why Gulf water sometimes looks brown? A marine biologist explains this fascinating natural phenomenon! The water is still safe for swimming. What questions do you have about our local ...

I blame “The Office” for making me wary of the potential odd encounter with a bat. (Meredith’s screams still haunt me after 18 years.) But as I scrolled through photos of bats for Magali Gauthier’s ...

More and more women seem to be sporting long, luscious manes. Our critic offers some possible explanations along with a brief history of hair. By Vanessa Friedman It is true that we are in a Rapunzel ...