From the Boston Ballet's whimsical Shakespearean production to KAIROS Dance Theater's work set to cellist Dave Eggar's music, WBUR arts contributor Shira Laucharoen shares 13 dance events that urge us ...

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The New Hampshire campus where AI was coined 70 years ago is now shaping its future. Mental health chatbots, medical training and language preservation — they're working on it all.

Michigan universities, including Oakland and Grand Valley State, are holding classes and creating centers to promote civil ...

Most tap water in the U.S. is safe to drink. But concerns about aging pipes, a group of chemicals known as PFAS and taste ...

On this week’s “More To The Story,” anti-vaxxers, an upside-down food pyramid, and the many ways MAHA is transforming public ...

COLUMBUS – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine delivered his 2026 State of the State Address this week to a joint session of the Ohio ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible Common eastern bumblebee ...

One of NASA’s spacecraft could reenter the atmosphere at approximately 7:45 P.M. EDT tonight. When the 600-kilogram Van Allen Probe A reenters Earth’s atmosphere, it will largely burn up, but there ...

Forest to coast. Coast to reef. Reef to ocean. Ocean back to land. It is the chain of life in motion, each link depending on ...

No, Ryland Grace does not make it back to Earth in Project Hail Mary. The movie’s ending works because it first looks like a standard return-home victory. Grace and Rocky identify Taumoeba as the ...

The science is accessible and Ryan Gosling is a superb Everyman in the excellent space adventure "Project Hail Mary," based on Andy Weir's novel.