For decades, body mass index (BMI) has been the dominant tool for defining obesity, despite longstanding concerns that it poorly reflects individual health risk. Growing evidence suggests that the ...

An initiative that could upend the legal marijuana market in Massachusetts may have started as a long shot, but it has the industry’s attention. The measure would repeal the state law that legalized ...

Scientists on Earth use seismometers to get a more detailed picture of what the inside of the Earth is made of. Those seismometers record vibrations from earthquakes. The vibrations change depending ...

Surgery Versus Ablation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Randomized Controlled Trial (SURF-RCT Trial) and a Nonrandomized Prospective Observational Trial (SURF-Cohort Trial) Personalized dosing of ...

Thousands of nurses across three hospital systems in New York City walked off the job Monday after weekend negotiations failed to produce agreements in their contract disputes. Picket lines formed at ...

Astronauts need to know their mass while in orbit, but a normal scale would be free-falling around the Earth with them. So how do they measure their mass without gravity? We're conducting a survey of ...

Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

A New Bedford man was sentenced to more than four years in prison for a double shooting despite one of the key witnesses being murdered while the case was pending. Lyrik Vernosky, 28, pleaded guilty ...

Senate advanced Schiff resolution to bar military action in Venezuela without Congress. Bipartisan support moved measure after briefings on Maduro capture and charges. Senate Democrats urged restoring ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge ticked up in November in the latest sign that prices remain stubbornly elevated, while consumers spent at a healthy pace. Consumer ...