What if the rise in marijuana smoking prompted by legalization brings more than just tolerable negative side effects? What if it is actually good for public health?

On the eve of a new Twin Peaks series, it's instructive to return to early scholarly attempts to make sense of the show.

The Supreme Court of Colorado, where marijuana use is now legal, is considering whether workers can be fired for smoking pot outside of working hours.

In 1676, Danish astronomer Ole Rømer predicted that an eclipse of one of Jupiter’s moons would occur ten minutes later than expected. How did he know?

The birds do it. The butterflies do it. And now we know that the dragonflies do to it, too: long-distance migration. 

Charles Bernstein, co-founder of the Language Poetry movement, has announced the gift of his papers to the Beinecke Library at Yale University.

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three scientists whose work focused on the brain's "internal GPS."

The effects of allowing undocumented students to receive in-state tuition rates at their state colleges and universities.

This year, the Journal of Parasitology celebrates its 100th anniversary

Where did the Secret Service come from?