Krista McCay is a writer specializing in video game guides and walkthroughs. She first entered the industry in 2022 while studying English at UC Santa Barbara and working part-time as an editor. It ...

A newly identified gene mutation may help explain why schizophrenia patients struggle to update their understanding of reality. The mutation disrupts a brain circuit involved in flexible ...

Armed with sophisticated chemistry and fresh approaches to drug design, researchers are closing in on innovative strategies to undermine a cancer-causing mutant protein once considered ‘undruggable’.

Three Charlotte-area stars share Charlotte Observer wrestlers of the year honors. Parkwood sophomore Rylynn Keziah is the All-Observer girls’ wrestler of the year. Hough junior Tyton Kostoff and ...

Video taken this morning in Maine shows an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer taking pictures of a legal observer's car. When she asks why he's doing that, he says, "Because we have a ...

As I am writing this, my DNA is changing. And, as you read this, so is yours. People tend to assume that the genes we inherit from our parents are a fixed blueprint for our growth and development, ...

The Charlotte Museum of History is showcasing the “American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition," shown here on Tuesday, April 7, 2026. This immersive, technology-driven experience uses augmented ...

'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...

With teachers spending nearly half their working hours on administrative tasks, the most transformative thing A.I. can do for education has nothing to do with replacing the humans at the front of the ...

The News & Observer presents the Top 50 Triangle restaurants, an effort to identify and celebrate the many excellent kitchens and dining rooms from Durham to Raleigh, Chapel Hill to Johnston County.

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Our Take offers shorter, urgent opinion from the Editorial Board on topics our ...