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Fallen leaves provide essential winter habitat for native pollinators and provide natural mulch for the soil. If you have to clear some leaves, don’t get rid of them entirely: Move them out of sight.
An atmospheric scientist explains what’s been going on in the atmosphere, and how El Niño and the jet stream both play important roles.
‘Credibility is on the line’ has long been a refrain guiding U.S. foreign policy.
A custody battle over a newborn with a heart condition raised a question courts have rarely faced: Can anyone be forced to end a pregnancy?
A historian traces how Oil City brokers, then John D. Rockefeller, then futures exchanges decided what the world pays for crude – and why no one entity does today.
College faculties have become more diverse since the 1970s, but college faculty of color still often find that they feel marginalized among their peers.
Students from military families have specific experiences and needs that require support from their schools.
The region may become less of a target for groups seeking to pressure the United States. But the Kurds also have less security support now, should they need it.
Rocks deep underground can be used to hold heat until it’s needed.
Engineers are using a unique test facility called the Wall of Wind to develop housing that’s both affordable and disaster-resistant. Their tests show the magnitude of the challenge.
The brain’s acute response to the trauma of sexual assault can block a person’s ability to accurately assess what they experienced.
The 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry gave a hand to handed molecules – and the processes chemists use to create them.
The Supreme Court’s decision to hear two assault weapons cases caps a multi-decade dispute over restricting assault weapons that extends far beyond legal arguments.
What does the law say about armed officials at the polls? That’s one of four questions that a legal scholar answers as Trump administration threats have piled up about voting in the midterms.
Republicans and Democrats need to make inroads with independent voters. But the themes that motivate the party faithful may not sit well with independents, who tend to recoil against partisan rancor.
AI models will refuse to say whether a person’s face looks gay or straight, but they will alter images of faces to fit stereotypes of gay and straight.
If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even have to add extra seconds to clocks.
From the printing press to smartphone apps, technology has continually transformed the experience of sacred journeys. A scholar of trails and walking explains the history.
Only 7% of sexual assault victims reported contacting local police.
Bakker’s ‘PTL Club’ existed at the nexus of evangelical Christianity and American pop culture.
IceCube looks for high energy neutrinos from space. It joins the ranks of complementary experiments that study neutrinos originating closer to home.
From thalidomide to resveratrol, molecules with the exact same chemical properties can have drastically different effects in the body depending on how they’re arranged in space.
Ohio, North Carolina and Michigan have open seats on their state supreme court, and these hotly contested races will influence how those courts rule in several high-stakes cases.
A return to the office can mean very different things to different workers, which is why this debate often produces conflicting answers.