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H5N1 influenza virus particles have been detected in commercially sold milk, but it’s not clear how the virus is spreading in cattle or whether their milk could infect humans

Research suggests that people tend to exaggerate how critically they will be viewed if they reveal negative information about themselves to others

Processed foods have been blamed for many health problems, but dietary research is tricky and nuanced

Here’s what a chef, a vet and two anthropologists have to say about eating periodical cicadas

Someday an unlucky outburst from our sun could strike Earth and fry most of our electronics—and we’ve already had some too-close-for-comfort near misses

Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.

In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day

The EPA has released four new pollution rules, most focusing on coal-fired power, as the final pieces of Biden’s push to clean up the power sector

People understand how saving tropical forests is good for the planet, but temperate forests are equally indispensable in fighting climate change

There has never been a better time to be or become a birder

How “heart-centered” archaeology is helping to find the Indigenous children who never came home from residential schools

An environmental engineer provides a glimpse of the magnitude of the challenge to remove PFAS from water supplies and ways you can reduce these “forever chemicals” in your own drinking water

Research on personality types in the middle of the extroversion-introversion scale is limited—yet the majority of people fall into this category

A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever to receive a genetically modified pig kidney and the first person to receive a heart pump and a transplanted organ together

Several marsupial species, including sugar gliders, independently evolved a way to make membranes that allow them to glide through the air

Long confined to regions with volcanic activity, geothermal promises to become a much more versatile energy source thanks to new technologies

Dodgy studies and fantastic claims have long powered a belief in devious Russian brain weapons, from mind control to microwave devices   

The molecule that gives cannabis its citrusy smell can make THC less anxiety-inducing

After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.

The incentives in science don’t always encourage openness—but being wrong might just be the key to getting it right.