World & Nation
Astronauts are screened when they join the program but not again unless a flag is raised in their flight physicals.
Feb. 7, 2007
In a perverse way, Raymond Bridge knew he was fortunate when doctors decided after five years that his daughter, Edith, suffered from a physical disorder rather than mental illness.
July 4, 1993
A Marine staff sergeant on duty in the Middle East received a troubling call from relatives back home.
May 17, 1992
Science & Medicine
While hunting for the elusive Planet X, astronomers have discovered 12 additional moons around Jupiter, bringing the grand total of the planet’s known satellites up to a whopping 79.
July 17, 2018
A 16-year-old boy was sentenced to life in prison without parole for stabbing a counselor 26 times in an elaborate plot to escape from a psychiatric hospital with his 15-year-old girlfriend.
July 17, 1996
Movies
Psychology and physiology can explain why some people go out of their way to scare themselves to death by watching thrillers.
Aug. 25, 2000
Technology and the Internet
June 28, 2017
Astronomers hunting for Planet Nine have found some 50 new objects lying beyond the orbit of Neptune – including a few that may help them track down this elusive, distant world.
Sept. 2, 2016
Bruce E. Ivins, a scientist who helped the FBI investigate the 2001 mail attacks, was about to face charges.
Aug. 1, 2008
California
It’s something we feel intuitively — that our gut has something to do with mood, and our mood has something to do with our gut.
Sept. 13, 2022