In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Foundry Fest, a “Not Dead Yet!” tribute to Tom Lehrer, gospel ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Knopf Books for Young Readers has announced the expansion of British author Katherine Rundell’s middle grade fantasy juggernaut, Impossible Creatures, from a trilogy to a five-book series.

Ursula Snyder graduated from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1983 with a bachelor of science degree in physics. Her undergraduate honors thesis work concerned biomagnetism ...

Posting a new thread because it's derailing the Musk thread. Making this a thread as a talisman to prevent the thread being nuked from orbit for what's sure to be some incredibly neck-bearded ...

The 2003 movie “Anne B. Real,” based on “The Diary of Anne Frank” but set in East Harlem, is “the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration” in the ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Alameda County Board of Supervisors selected Superior Court Judge Ursula Jones Dickson as the county's new district attorney at the end of a nearly four-hour special meeting ...

The newly created European Union far-right party the Patriots for Europe, home to populists like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and France’s Marine Le Pen, will hold a “Make Europe Great Again” rally in ...

Learn about jazz virtuoso and screen superstar Hazel Scott, the first Black American to have their own television show. Author Angela Garbes reflects on the relationship of parenthood to the arts ...

Glenn Kessler has been editor and chief writer of The Fact Checker since 2011, making him one of the pioneers of political fact-checking. In a journalism career spanning more than four decades ...

Biotechnology is a broad discipline in which biological processes, organisms, cells or cellular components are exploited to develop new technologies. New tools and products developed by ...

The decision to form a fruiting body have been studied extensively, however, the mechanical events that trigger the creation of multiple cell layers is poorly understood. Here the authors find M.