The founder of a vintage bookstore-on-wheels is gearing up to open her first storefront next month in downtown Livermore.

It’s safe to say that Robert J. Sawyer loves being a sci-fi writer. In fact, his license plate literally reads “SF Writer.” But when he was diagnosed with an incurable cancer, he worried that the ...

A new study demonstrates that a person with severe paralysis caused by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can use a brain-computer interface (BCI) at home to communicate, work and interact with the ...

We tend to think of our medieval ancestors as warty, unwashed, riddled with fleas, doomed to die young, and with little or no knowledge of medicine, or the body’s workings, said Helen Carr in The ...

Years ago, I moved into a small, cold house with two women I’d never met. Quickly, we became very close, in part through living communally: divvying up the big chores and scarce hot water, waiting ...

A groundbreaking leap in technology has arrived as scientists unveil a computer made from living human brain cells. These remarkable organoids, grown in labs, are capable of processing information, ...

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Art for art’s sake is a noble idea, but even poets have to buy groceries. The difficult practicalities of the creative life are the subject of Mason Currey’s lively, engaging “Making Art and Making a ...

Organoids, also known as lab grown organs, have been studied for over a century now. American biologist Henry Van Peters Wilson first demonstrated the ability for cells to self-organize for ...

This month’s KELOLAND Living book club selection is “Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone” by Benjamin Stevenson is a clever, darkly comedic mystery that’s had readers buzzing. And that includes ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...