Acclaimed actors Francis Jue and Christine Toy Johnson are turning their long relationship offstage into a tour de force in George Street Playhouse's "What Became of Us." The play runs through April 5 ...

The start-up Function will send practically anyone to a lab for extensive medical testing, no physical required. Is that a good thing? By Kristen V. Brown As Kimberly Crisp approached middle age, ...

My weight loss journey began not with a breakup, the desire to run a marathon or a New Year’s resolution. It began with Haruki Murakami. In the summer of 2024, I stood 5 feet, 2 inches tall and ...

Why it matters: JavaScript was officially unveiled in 1995 and now powers the overwhelming majority of the modern web, as well as countless server and desktop projects. The language is one of the core ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the ...

Harvard is worried about going soft. Specifically, about grade inflation, the name for giving ever higher marks to ever more students. According to an “Update on Grading and Workload” from the ...

Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...

Journal Editorial Report: The Fed Chief signals rate cuts are coming. As we saw during the Covid pandemic, lab-created experiments can wreak havoc when they escape their confines. Once released, they ...

When Jonathan Swerdlin tells you he pours his blood, sweat, and tears into his work, he means it more literally than most company leaders. Swerdlin is the CEO and co-founder of Function Health, a fast ...

Many people have low-level risk factors, such as early signs of heart disease, smoldering inside their body. But they can only take preventative action if aware of potential threats. That’s the ...

In a new paper with implications for preventing Alzheimer's disease and other neurological disorders, Keith Hengen, an associate professor of biology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St.