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Scientists say their Stomata In-Sight tool can observe plants "breathe," which could be used to bioengineer crops that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Vast swaths of the ponderosa pine forests that blanket Colorado’s Front Range mountains could turn rust-colored and die over the next five years as pine ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A man was shot and killed Saturday morning at the Sparrows Point Townhomes and Apartments in Virginia Beach, and police said suspects were taken into custody. Virginia Beach ...

Good morning. New England helped introduce short fiction to America. A new story collection taps into the genre’s regional roots. Before I wanted to be a journalist, I wanted to write short stories. A ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Sydney’s notoriously wet early-January weather again put a dampener on day one of the SCG Test, as Joe Root and Harry Brook steered ...

Your ability to notice what matters visually comes from an ancient brain system over 500 million years old.

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Science shapes every part of our lives, but so much of its influence is overlooked or buried in the past. Tiny Matters is an award-winning podcast about tiny things — from molecules to microbes — that ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...