Inside Judi Rosen’s Nolita denim boutique is a mustard-yellow orb that sits with a satisfying weight in your palm, like an oversized 1-ball. Grafted onto its side is a small reflecting glass that you hold at shoulder level. This is…
One morning, about a month ago, I walked out of my Brooklyn apartment on a quick mission to buy shampoo and ended up having six drops of CBD, the cannabis-based elixir, administered beneath my tongue by a Coloradan named Bodē.…
We’re entering the season of coughing and bodily aches and pains. And if you haven’t been immunized yet, now might be the perfect time to get a flu shot. Though flu vaccine campaigns begin as early as August, several studies…
At least 34 people have died and more than 1,600 have fallen ill in the vaping-related lung illness outbreak that’s swept across the country since March. And months into their investigation, disease detectives at the Centers for Disease Control and…
Scientists at Google on Wednesday declared, via a paper in the journal Nature, that they’d done something extraordinary. In building a quantum computer that solved an incredibly hard problem in 200 seconds — a problem the world’s fastest supercomputer would…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Free speech and privacy on the internet declined globally for the ninth consecutive year according to the…
This story is part of a group of stories called Valley’s hot new trend. Is it backed by science? /> Finding the best ways to do good. Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. In the far reaches of the country,…
Lawyers representing Hawaii Rep. and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Tulsi Gabbard wrote a letter to former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Monday, demanding that she retract a statement saying that Republicans were grooming a female…
Deval Patrick, the politician who made history as Massachusetts’ first black governor, is eyeing a potential late bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, according to two Democratic Party sources. Interested in Democratic Party? Add Democratic Party as an interest to…
An evolving community in the big city of Minneapolis is fighting a dangerous virus — and a battle of beliefs. The largest measles outbreak in the Minnesota city in 25 years, this April, affected 34 people primarily between the ages…