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Hit by restructuring, the EPA is reportedly ending the Energy Star program that saves billions for business and consumers ...

Past research shows that there are two major motivations surrounding our social networks: one to meet new people and the ...

Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

U.S. budget proposal would hollow NASA to a husk bent to Elon Musk’s whims. Only one mission can save the space agency ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

Cuttlefish wave their expressive arms in four distinctive dancelike signals—potentially letting them communicate visually and ...

The International Code Council has approved stronger building codes to protect hospitals, schools and other structures from ...

A new snakebite treatment combines an existing drug with antibodies from a hyperimmune reptile collector, raising both hopes ...

In the new book Personhood, historian and law professor Mary Ziegler explores how the push to grant embryos and fetuses full ...

As the measles outbreak in the U.S. gets bigger, HHS’s secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., touts nonvaccine treatments. But ...

Under President Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate offices that track greenhouse gas emissions and ...