Plants are usually seen as stationary life forms, quietly supporting environments. But plant communities and populations are ...

The 1968 bestseller forecast famine and resource collapse, but global prosperity rose even as the population surpassed 8 billion.

California — the state with the largest population, the biggest economy and some of the country’s most powerful politicians — ...

The burly bronze bison busts are a gift to commemorate the nation’s 250th anniversary. They’re being displayed outside the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in D.C.

Study shows how ancient Andean people faced hardships using kinship networks to survive environmental change, disease and ...

The sudden death of a teenage temperance activist shocked Pittsfield, one month before it took a historic vote toward ...

The Fort Worth Zoo has successfully hatched an African fish eagle, making it one of only five institutions in North America to house the rare raptor. The chick was born about six weeks ago, zoo ...

The city of Katy has launched a historic preservation commission advisory group to help keep the city’s landmarks up to current safety standards while preserving the city’s historic charm as the ...

Type 1 diabetes confers a cardiovascular burden that is often obscured by the young age of affected individuals and by the longstanding focus on microvascular rather than macrovascular complications.

The National Women’s History Museum offers hundreds of biographies of women whose contributions helped shape America. From ...

Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment” examines the American tradition of blackface minstrelsy. Blackface refers to both the practice of using burnt-cork or black theatrical makeup in staged ...

Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich, who died March 13, 2026, in Palo Alto, California, was a scientific crusader whose dire predictions about population growth, world hunger and environmental ...