How a R.I. startup is turning seafood shell waste into furniture and building materials

Shellf Life founder Felicia Neuhof developed the “recipe” for her sustainable design business using her kitchen stove.

‘An attack on science’: Trump’s cuts to research threatens R.I.’s budding life sciences sector

“It might take a generation to bounce back from this,” said a scientist at the Rhode Island Public Health Institute whose research was shut down.

As Trump targets Harvard, Greater Boston’s economy is in the crosshairs

Money flows out of Harvard into biotechs, housing projects, and retail storefronts. The school powers hospitals, tourism, and philanthropy. It employs 18,000 people. Now much of that ecosystem feels at risk.

Mass. residents who take GLP-1 drugs for obesity tend to be white and affluent. But who needs them most?

The trends worry health experts, who say the medicines have potential to narrow differences in obesity rates among demographic groups, but may in fact be widening them.

At least 10 people sickened in US listeria outbreak linked to prepared foods

The US Food and Drug Administration said that federal, state, and local officials are investigating the outbreak linked to foods produced by Fresh & Ready Foods LLC of San Fernando, California.

Zepbound beats Wegovy for weight loss in first head-to-head trial of blockbuster drugs

A new study shows that people using Zepbound lost about 50 percent more weight than those using Wegovy.

Newark airport will see its flight capacity reduced for ‘next several weeks’

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy plans to reduce the number of flights in and out of the Newark airport for the “next several weeks” as it struggles with radar outages and a shortage of air traffic controllers.