Lee Mendelson, the longtime producer of Peanuts TV specials who wrote the lyrics for the yuletide classic, “Christmas Time Is Here,” died on Christmas Day at the age of 86. Mendelson’s sons, Jason and Glenn, spoke to MORE
Five U.S. airports had travelers pass through with confirmed cases of measles this month, exposing an unknown number of fellow passengers to the highly infectious disease, according to health officials in those cities. Chicago O’Hare, Virginia Richmond MORE
Newly in from WaPo: a former investment manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints alleges that the church has stockpiled $100 billion in donations instead of using them for charitable works. The MORE
An American Airlines passenger flying from Key West, FL to Las Vegas, NV in October was forced by the airline crew to cover her black T-shirt during the flight because it featured the text, “HAIL MORE
As someone who had to start wearing glasses at age 9, I was excited to see a new FDA update this morning: the agency has approved the first contact lens indicated to slow the progression MORE
Today I was looking up chicken-pox parties (ugh!) and I noticed a headline on the People magazine website about unsafe drinking water on US airlines. This study is a little scary but I thought it MORE
Skimping on sleep may put people at higher risk for accumulating the protein plaques in the brain involved in Alzheimer’s disease. NPR Shots reported from Thursday’s edition of Science that brain waves generated during deep MORE
This week NPR Shots reported on the progress of a US sickle-cell patient enrolled in a clinical study to look at CRISPR’s safety and efficacy in treating this disease. She’s the first US patient being MORE
Vaccine opponents in California appealed to another “Jen” today: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of Gov. Gavin Newsom, in a desperate attempt to urge Mr. Newsom to veto bills restricting fraudulent vaccine exemptions. The anti-vaxers MORE
An ancient world leader in astronomy tried yesterday to land a robotic spacecraft near the moon’s south pole, but lost contact with the lander 2.1 km (1.3 miles) above the lunar surface. So far only MORE
Today CNN and some other sources around the web shared a story about too much junk food causing a teenager to go blind. The study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine MORE
CNET’s Roadshow reports that the third-generation BMW X6 release at the Frankfurt Motor Show may be a little hard to see. The car is spray-coated in Vantablack, a substance that holds the world record as MORE
North Carolina’s governor proclaimed a day in honor of soul musician Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, NC in 1933). Nina was what we often call a child prodigy: she started playing piano MORE
BBC News reported today that plastic is showing up in more areas of the environment than ever expected: now it’s been found in Arctic air. A group of German and Swiss scientists studying environmental contamination MORE
Good news arrived today on two fronts in the vaccines-vs-disease war. An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo started a little over a year ago, and health-care workers continue to struggle with widespread MORE