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Imagine a city street at dusk, silent save for the rising sound of a collective guttural moan. Suddenly, a horde of ragged, bloodied creatures...
The American South has the highest HIV rates in the country, accounting for more than half of new HIV diagnoses nationwide in 2023. This is despite...
Pregnant women crossing borders to get an abortion. People who miscarry facing jail time or dying from infection. Doctors who won’t perform...
Soon after the NFL’s announcement that Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny would headline the Super Bowl halftime show, conservative media outlets and...
Dangerous flooding has damaged neighborhoods in almost every state in 2025, leaving homes a muddy mess. In several hard-hit areas, it wasn’t the...
When someone opens the door and enters a hospital room, wearing a stethoscope is a telltale sign that they’re a clinician. This medical device has...
As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building blocks of personality. My...
Those who rise to power through a coup often fall by the same means. That is one of the takeaways from events in Madagascar, where on Oct. 14,...
Fossil fuels still power much of the world, even though renewable energy has become cheaper in most places and avoids both pollution and the...
Removing parking requirements for new buildings could help thousands of Coloradans who struggle to afford housing. There is a shortage of over...
Free press advocates warn that limiting how journalists cover the Defense Department hampers the stability and freedom that democracies enjoy.
Police are getting a boost from artificial intelligence, with algorithms now able to draft police reports in minutes. The technology promises to...
Many news outlets have reported an increase – or surge – in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, diagnoses in both children and...
For decades, federal shutdowns have mostly been budget fights. The 2025 one has become bigger than that: It’s turned into a messaging war. Official...
Lumber, especially softwood lumber like pine and spruce, is critical to U.S. home construction. Its availability and price directly affect housing...
Why do some people endorse claims that can easily be disproved? It’s one thing to believe false information, but another to actively stick with...
Every Oct. 17, Haiti celebrates Dessalines Day, commemorating the assassination in 1806 of the country’s first head of state postindependence,...
If you visit the Erie Canal today, you’ll find a tranquil waterway and trail that pass through charming towns and forests, a place where hikers,...
Detroit is seeing declines in violent crime, but 33% more young people were victims of gun violence in the city so far in 2025 compared with the...
Sound waves at frequencies above the threshold for human hearing are routinely used in medical care. Also known as ultrasound, these sound waves...
X-ray beams aren’t used just by doctors to see inside your body and tell whether you have a broken bone. More powerful beams made up of very short...
American colleges and universities are increasingly firing or punishing professors and other employees for what they say, whether it’s on social...
Surveillance pricing has dominated headlines recently. Delta Air Lines’ announcement that it will use artificial intelligence to set individualized...
How much pollution a facility engaged in production or resource extraction emits isn’t just based on its location, its industry or the type of work...
The ongoing federal shutdown has resulted in a pause on regular government data releases, meaning economic data has been in short supply of late....
As millions of student loan borrowers settle into the school year, many are stressed about how they’ll pay for their degrees. These students may...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is displeased with a broadcast network. He makes his displeasure clear in public speeches,...
When Starbucks announced that it would phase out its mobile-order pickup-only locations beginning in 2026, it raised a question: Why abandon a...
Remnants of a powerful typhoon swept into Western Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Oct. 12, 2025, producing a storm surge that flooded villages as...
As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change...
Hurricane Idalia blew a flamboyance, or flock, of 300-400 flamingos that was likely migrating between the Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba off course in...
As the planet warms, it risks crossing catastrophic tipping points: thresholds where Earth systems, such as ice sheets and rain forests, change...
On Oct. 15, 2025, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in one of the most anticipated cases of the 2025-2026 term, Louisiana v. Callais, with...
We are lizard biologists, and to do our work we need to catch lizards – never an easy task with such fast, agile creatures. Years ago, one of us...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool. During hurricane season, for instance, meteorologists create computer simulations to forecast how these...
A series of recent events has sparked alarm about rising levels of political violence in the U.S. These episodes include the assassination of...