From snails to skunks, squirrels to cicadas, most of our neighbors are quiet and seldom interact with us, but they play…
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For almost a year, Serb demonstrators have called for the ouster of the increasingly authoritarian president.
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The pace of US business investment has fallen by about 50% over the past 50 years. Idle capacity, not cautious executives,…
From tigers to mice and penguins to elephants – animal pharmacologists analyze samples from them all and play an important…
An environmental engineer explains how his research team is developing a system containing bacteria, biochar and gel to…
The public’s relationship with news is defined more by its skepticism of the profession than by its impressions of journalists…
US attempts to intervene in long-running spat between Ethiopia and Egypt has yielded little progress – and may have put…
There are growing signs that American civil society is becoming more vulnerable to the president’s preferences and dictates…
Trump’s definitive statements that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism suggest certainty that the science does…
A study of the 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days revealed long-term negative effects on federal workers and led to weakened…
Strong religious beliefs often shape disapproval of abortion – in the abstract. But when young women are actually deciding…
From 1980s sci-fi films to today’s blockbusters, filmmakers have wrestled with questions about what happens when humans…