With Long Islanders closer to the breaking point, proposed cuts in Washington will hurt families, jobs and local businesses ...

Have you ever wondered why our bodies look the way they do? Paleobiologist Neil Shubin sets out in this three-part series to find the answers in a surprising place: the ancient animal ancestors ...

Neil Shubin is the Robert Bensley Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and associate dean for academic strategy of the university's Biological Sciences Division.