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Karl Deisseroth, 54, Peter Hegemann, 71, and Georg Nagel, 73, have carried out research into light-gated ion channels and optogenetics. Deisseroth was born in Boston and began his education in the area.
" This evolution of gambling has happened in a way that we've gone from brick-and-mortar casinos to now access on your phone 24/7," said the state's director for the Office of Problem Gambling, Victor Ortiz. "Technology is a vehicle for people to gain access to gambling; we felt strong that we needed to be able to…
Ads depicting children with the slogan "BPS IS FAILING THEM" began going up across the MBTA system on Wednesday. A day later, the T objected and began removing them.
Though Maye committed two more turnovers to give him nine on the season, he rallied the Patriots to the victory with his 23-yard TD pass to Chism with 1:50 remaining.
The U.S. Coast Guard said authorities searched more than 4,400 miles over a span of 66 hours for the four Canadians and two people from Bermuda who were on board. Searchers on Saturday found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket.
On Point news analyst Jack Beatty brings historical context to analysis that President Trump’s war with Iran has no realistic off-ramp.
In a posthumously published book, the former Massachusetts congressman spells out where he believes the party went wrong and how it helped fuel the rise of Donald Trump and his brand of "xenophobic populism."
Borders have always been more than lines on a map, marking where one culture gives way to another and traditions collide. Artists have long lived at these thresholds. Meet seven local artists of color whose work explores and transcends these boundaries.
Combining archival imagery and his pictures of present-day landscapes, the photographer and writer brings new meaning to places like Franklin Park and Martha’s Vineyard, where his family traces its roots.
The Boston-based artist envisions life in Latin America if Spanish colonization had never happened with his project “A Él Mismo." It’s a love letter — to himself, his heritage and his family.
The Roxbury artist’s work offers a way to cross between worlds, from life-size slave cabins to sacred “ring shouts” that connect the living to the dead. "The borders are real," Franklin said, "and they are to be unlearned if we are to march into the future."
The educator and writer spends a lot of her time thinking about mycelia. She leads mushroom walks around Greater Boston and last year published a collection of essays. “When a kingdom of life defies these sorts of easy categorization, it's clear that we have a lot to learn from them,” Pinto said.
The Boston-based marimbist knew he wanted to have a life in music from the moment he first touched a marimba. Now, he is on a mission to expand the repertoire of the classical marimba.
The pianist's compositions unfold like chapters in a story of artistic evolution. She shares her inner journey through sophisticated Afro-Cuban rhythms blended with the spirit of contemporary jazz and a touch of classical.
The multimedia artist’s appreciation of traditional techniques and materials is a way for ancestral wisdom to be passed to newer generations and audiences. “Through these objects, through bodies, through rituals, through the cultural practices,” Sumu said, “it is how those memories, those knowledges, get to be…
A search remains ongoing off the Massachusetts coast for an air ambulance carrying six people that disappeared during a flight from Bermuda to Boston. The Federal Aviation Administration told the Coast Guard on Saturday that it had lost contact with the Gulfstream G100 carrying four Canadians and two Bermudian…
This episode was originally released on June 11, 2018. Her doctor categorized her as overweight when she was 5 years old. Her grandmother always introduced her as the “chubby one.” As an adult, she vacillates between moderation and binge-eating, restricting food some weeks, and gorging on cake and ice cream during…
Deaton spent about an hour and a half inside ICE's New England headquarters with a campaign staffer, who ICE also allowed in for the tour. Such inspections are typically offered to members of Congress.
Health officials in Massachusetts are expanding their advice about alcohol use to emphasize the health risks of regular drinking. The state Department of Public Health says even moderate drinking — one glass a day for women or two for men — can increase the chances of developing some types of cancer, high blood…
Historian Beverly Gage hit the road to learn about our country's history. She visited more than 300 historic sites -- from museums and battlefields to roadside attractions. What she learned about how America honors its history.
Older Americans have amassed massive wealth, power and voter influence. On Point's special series "Senior Class: Gerontocracy in America" explores the causes and impacts of this generational imbalance.
The Tufts University Prison Initiative offers higher education courses inside the state prison in Shirley and a re-entry program.
For years, many attorneys for the Committee for Public Counsel Services have tried to form a union. But unlike other government employees, they're not allowed to collectively bargain under state law.
Here are some tips from local experts on raptor watching during fall migration season, including where to go in Massachusetts and what you might see.
The strike will be open-ended, meaning it’s unclear how long the 4,000 staff nurses would leave their jobs. This would be their second strike of the year.
President Trump has found himself on the defensive, campaigning in red states with one month to go before elections.
On "Reckoning," Mary Gauthier unpacks her recovery from drug and alcohol addiction.
Over the next four months the, G7 nations are going to release as many as 100 million barrels of emergency oil and diesel stocks.
The book follows the lives of four young women as they start a new life in America — learning English, repeating college and forging new identities.
The state of Tennessee tried and failed to execute her on Wednesday.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Brooklyn firefighter Stephen Siller, just off an overnight shift, saw the planes hit the towers. He geared up and ran through the Battery Tunnel, toward the danger. He died there.
The marriage has curdled for tech titan Morgan Henderson (Dominic West) and his movie-star spouse, Carla Duval (Sienna Miller), after she orchestrates her own husband's infidelity. And London's top lawyers are salivating for the legal war to come.
Rural voters, especially farmers, have largely voted conservative in recent years. High prices for diesel fuel and fertilizer caused by the war in Iran could sway the way they vote.
Bendancer danced for 168 hours over seven days, seemingly smashing the previous record of 127 hours set by a dancer in India.
A new generation of mothers looking for community online is often feeling manipulated by the $60-billion U.S. baby product market to buy, buy, buy.
Americans owe $220 billion in medical debt, according to a federal survey.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday appointed the state’s Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to investigate the case.
Topsfield Fair organizers say some of the giant pumpkins could at Friday's contest break fair — or even world — records.
Two Massachusetts men have been sentenced to probation and given fines after they pleaded guilty to setting off fireworks at an empty Harvard Medical School building in 2025.
Robin Schoenthaler wanted to buy cowboy boots for a Texas wedding. “I had a pretty specific request,” she writes. She needed size 9. Extra points for bright colors, sparkles, low heels, not too pointy. "I figured it was a long shot. But I was wrong.”
"Flock and other companies are building an omnipresent digital dragnet without democratic consent, enabling law enforcement to track people across the country with the click of a mouse," writes Gideon Epstein, of the ACLU of Massachusetts.
The internet is the great connector. Talk with nearly anyone at any time about anything. But that kind of freedom can lead to misunderstandings. Maybe your neighbors discover your cruder, less friendly persona online. Maybe a debate over holiday lore becomes a battle front.
This week, the attorney general's office released its investigation on clergy sexual abuse in the Worcester, Springfield and Fall River dioceses. And new polling gives a sense of where voters stand on the gubernatorial race and the ballot questions for this election.
In her new novel, "Hocus Pocus," Keene State professor Brinda Charry follows an Indian stage magician through a frozen 1816 Boston, where audiences see him as a curiosity.
Gov. Healey is asking the Trump administration to expedite its review of a proposed natural gas pipeline expansion project in New England.
Judge William Sullivan issued the decision Thursday, stating that prosecutors had offered enough evidence for a jury to decide whether Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children.
DraftKings was sued in a federal class-action lawsuit in Massachusetts. The lawsuit claims the Boston-based sports betting company used artificial intelligence to figure out which customers were most likely to keep gambling and losing, and then targeted them with promotions.
After spending 8 years running focus groups with voters, the former Republican operative and Never-Trumper says she knows not only how voters think but why they vote the way they do.
Most adults in the U.S. cannot consistently afford health care. That’s according to a recent Gallup poll.
This time of year, when peppers come in a rainbow of colors and shapes and sizes and flavors, it’s hard not to love sweet peppers.
Death row inmate Christa Pike survived two injections intended to kill her.
Santa Rosa Island is one of only two naturally occurring groves or Torrey pines in the world.
Are any of the recent unsettling food-related headlines related to FDA cuts?
It's been 50 years since Pat Metheny released his first album in 1976.
Every day, 17 veterans die by suicide. Mental health conditions, chronic pain, poor sleep, financial strain, and isolation can all compound the risk.
Fighting in Yemen reignited this summer, connected with the war in Iran, and experts say that is exacerbating a health and humanitarian crisis.
In "The Radiance," a writer who's also named Ayad Akhtar has an almost fatal bicycle accident that leaves him with a mysterious state of altered perception.
At a bitcoin bar in Washington, D.C., on a recent Saturday night, a pro-data center party welcomed hundreds of artificial intelligence fans who enjoyed a generative AI photo booth, data-themed drinks and speeches about the race against China.
A decade ago, a federal plan aimed to help the pollinators along their journey and offset habitat loss by planting strips of milkweed and wildflowers along Interstate 35.
Newly constructed homes now cost less than existing homes in many U.S. markets, reversing a years-long trend.
New York prosecutors have reopened an investigation that is raising questions about sexual assault on college campuses — and how universities handle such reports.
Election expert Tammy Patrick says there are "major changes happening in our election ecosystem," such as increased federal involvement in election administration.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu formally endorsed Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll for reelection, citing a "partnership to build a Boston and a Massachusetts that work for everyone."
Nuclear power is undergoing a "transition," a regional energy expert said, as New England looks anew to the technology to meet rising electricity demand.
Cruise's trademark intensity turns leaden and fatiguing in this heavy-handed satire — an endurance test disguised as black comedy. Hathaway, however, feasts on villainy, articulating evil utterances and staring daggers into the camera. One's unbearable to watch. The other is delicious, according to critic Sean Burns.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is launching an 'AI fluency' initiative aimed at helping high school seniors understand how to use artificial intelligence and the tool's pitfalls.
Ascend Elements promised to change the way we recycle batteries.
Beginning Oct. 1, the amount of money states get from the federal government to run SNAP is getting sliced in half, due to changes made by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Advocates in Massachusetts say it puts "an extra financial burden on the state at a time when that agency that administers the program here is…
The Yankees rolled to a 9-2 win over the Red Sox Wednesday night that completed a two-game sweep.
Both proponents and opponents agree the proposed change to a law that restricts tax revenues for Massachusetts would lead to the state providing more rebates, more frequently. But they differ over whether that’s a good thing for the state’s finances.
More than half of men under 50 in the U.S. have an open online sports book. Public health experts warn it's easier than ever to get addicted to gambling. Atlantic staff writer McKay Coppins spent a year exploring the world of sports betting, and why the pastime is particularly bad for young men.
This year’s Question 1 would place the Legislature, as well as the governor’s office, under the state’s public records law. Massachusetts is the only state that has exempted all three branches of government from the law.
An increasing number of people say they don't; that conversing with, confiding in, and sometimes falling in love with an artificial intelligence bot that "performs" empathy, but has none, is not only acceptable, but sometimes preferable.
New "AI-native" radiology practices claim to improve the efficiency of radiologists and, in some cases, better diagnose patients using artificial intelligence.
The Supreme Court decided on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to resume deporting immigrants to countries they have no ties to.
The rapidly emerging El Niño in the Pacific has already tied for the hottest since records began 150 years ago — and it hasn’t even peaked yet.
Kansas is one of the states leading what's been a national drop in people able to get government food assistance or SNAP benefits.
Attorney General Andrea Campbell called the report “the first, full public accounting of the abuse, misconduct and institutional failures at the dioceses that allowed the abuse to happen.”
The reporting also found that ICE has lost track of the number of miscarriages happening in custody.
Part horror, part adventure, part suspense, it's also the story of a father-daughter relationship gone terribly wrong.
The Pentagon plans to slash around 800 flag and general officer positions by next year.
Three hurricanes and one tropical storm have impacted the idyllic islands since mid-August.
The 530A Trump Account is meant to give families $1,000 to invest for their child.
A FlyDubai flight carrying around 180 passengers from Dubai to Tel Aviv made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia early on Wednesday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said one pilot stabbed his co-pilot and tried to crash the plane.
Jordan Neely, a homeless Black man, was killed on a subway train when 24-year-old white Marine Daniel Penny put him in a fatal chokehold.
The U.S. military has now left Iraq, after invading more than two decades ago in a war that has long since ended.
Department of Higher Education will require colleges and universities in Massachusetts to post a public notice of their 'risk of imminent closure" by Dec. 31 each year.
MIT computer scientist Sam Madden joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss a report he co-authored that investigates the extent of AI use among MIT students.
Steve Koczela, president of MassINC Polling Group, joins WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss the survey's findings.
Leaders from all six New England states are gathering in Lowell on Wednesday for a one-day summit to discuss what role nuclear power could play in helping to meet the region's growing electricity demands. It comes as Massachusetts considers repealing a 1982 law that requires a statewide vote for new nuclear plants.
The long-term care oversight law that Healey signed in 2024 already directs DPH to weigh an operator's out-of-state record and litigation when deciding whether to approve a nursing home acquisition. DPH has finalized the regulations to implement the law and plans to bring them to the Public Health Council on Oct. 14…
Cam Schlittler pitched another playoff gem against the Boston Red Sox, and Ben Rice also burned their hometown team with a late grand slam and six RBIs as the New York Yankees opened the Wild Card Series rematch with a victory.
Plus, a festival of indie games and a special screening of “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has proposed changing its Head Start program. "My experience with Head Start makes me deeply concerned that, if enacted, these changes have the potential to tear apart the program that worked so well for me and 40 million others by diluting what has made it so…
Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Tuesday that his office has not yet decided whether there will be another trial for Lindsay Clancy.
El Niño has become an annual global climate phenomenon. But this year, scientists are warning of a record-setting 'super' El Niño. What that could mean for the weather everywhere on planet earth.
Broadway's Aaron Bartz, Erik Christopher Peterson and Cara Ricketts (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) headline a Jewish and Egyptian story about a high-stakes game of hide and seek.
Daraxonrasib, a drug developed by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, works by blocking the specific gene mutations thought to drive abnormal cell growth in pancreatic cancer. The treatment has shown so much promise that the FDA approved it more than six months ahead of schedule.
In the town of Liberal, Kansas, immigration raids have sparked concerns among residents and businesses
The book centers around two stars of an Andy Warhol biopic and how they navigate what could be breakout roles.