As we come to the end of October and the beginning of November, the calendar is awash with reminders of our ancestors.

More than 1,000 Carnegie libraries across the U.S., including 17 in Maine, will receive the money to mark the country's 250th ...

Scottish patients placed at the heart of a multi-million pound study of weight-loss medicines. Scottish patients placed at the heart of a ...

Caroline Fraser’s new book “Murderland” connects the dots between the rise of lead in the atmosphere from smelting and gasoline and the prevalence of serial killers during the 1970s.

My mom and I lived 1,500 miles apart for 35 years then tried living together again. We didn't realize how different we'd become.

A fresh line of attack on Alzheimer’s has emerged from an unexpected source: the brain’s own border guards and natural waste routes. Researchers in China ...

Brandi Carlile’s “Returning to Myself” album, her first solo release in four years, is likely to debut in the top 10 when album chart results come in this weekend. Her appearance on “Saturday Night ...

One of the latest to hit the shelves is Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s The Weavers and the Elephant, a slim collection of three ...