WHEN it comes to Christmas, you probably have a lot of family plans and then for the New Year, you might be seeing friends – ...

This week I had visitors in town from back east. One was an 11-year-old boy who wanted to take surfing lessons every day; the other had lived in Santa Cruz 35 or 40 years ago and was ...

Mr. Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim and South Asian mayor, celebrated the city’s diversity and pledged to govern ...

University of Pennsylvania researcher Ran Barzilay is a father of three. His first two children received cellphones before ...

Many chronic pain patients cite the weather as a driver of their suffering, and climate change is making the torment more ...

The school holidays have a way of sneaking up on families – one minute, mornings are a blur of uniforms and school bags; the next, the kids are home, brimming with restless energy and asking what’s ...

Scientists warn that a proposed expansion of Port Everglades could cause unprecedented damage to corals in the U.S., ...

A list of animated kids shows that promote environmental awareness and encourage kids to get out and into nature.

Mushroom hunting is increasingly popular. A new wave of foraging groups by and for people of color could also help close the ...

Lanice spongicola lives on a glass sponge, a deep-sea sponge with a skeleton made of silica, that rises from hard rock. The worm builds a thin mucus tube on the lower part of the sponge and presses ...

Humans ferried pigs across thousands of Pacific islands for millennia, reshaping ecosystems and blurring the line between ...