Scientists set out to understand all the ways the animals use their eight appendages. It wasn’t easy. By Kate Golembiewski The eight arms of an octopus are right there in its name. But these ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. This summer, I reread the novel “Aurora,” by Kim Stanley Robinson, a science-fiction writer whom I ...

Valerie Bertinelli delivered a master class in handling online critics this week when she addressed complaints about her throwback posts with a response that was both direct and diplomatic. The ...

Vaccines have changed modern medicine, leading to a 99 percent decline in the incidence of more than a dozen potentially deadly diseases. And the innovations keep coming. Now, in addition to a yearly ...