The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new kind of depression treatment seen in decades, a nasal spray drug based on the sedative ketamine. Read More

It now appears all but certain that Chelsea Manning will soon appear before a federal grand jury and–likely–be forced to testify about her association with WikiLeaks founder… Read More

The United States puts more people in prison than any other country in the world, yet little is known about the ways this sad reality impacts the… Read More

In California, a wet winter no longer protects landscapes from the kind of intense wildfires the state’s been experiencing lately. Read More

In what might be one of the most surprising departures from the Trump administration yet, Scott Gottlieb has tendered his resignation as commissioner of the Food and… Read More

In New York, Amazon’s (scrapped) plans for a Queens headquarters were ultimately received with a derisive Bronx cheer. Legislators in Arlington, Virginia, however, have been more welcoming,… Read More

The encryption war is quiet now, but the murky back-and-forth between Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., is far from over. Read More

It’s not quite seeing through walls, but scientists are working to engineer light beams so that they can pass through an opaque medium without scattering, according to… Read More