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Hide your kids, hide your plants, hide your pets—or at least bundle them up.

Plane seat roulette? No, thanks.

And it isn’t even new.

New laws and technologies look to change the culture of scarcity that pervades the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Battlefields around the world are being transformed into parks and refuges.

Vitamin E acetate is one potential culprit, but it’s too soon to say for certain.

The wildlife trade for traditional medicine is driving some South African species to extinction—but it’s still a drop in the bucket in terms of larger environmental destruction.

The origin story of one of America’s favorite meals.

A recent study highlighted mint as a popular pod.

There are much better ways to support teen health and safety than hymen checks and two-finger tests.

Less ice means more places to swim—and share germs.

Western scientists starved animals and fed soldiers junk food to crunch the math on how much meat humans require.

Y’all, got some tips @here.

The twin Voyager probes continue to help us examine our place among the stars.

High-end materials and lots of customization options make this for serious players only.

If you were trapped in a bunker with no food or sunlight, you’d probably eat your neighbors, too.

Tweets about opioid use match up with overdose deaths in Pennsylvania counties.

Picking lower-impact produce is more complicated than just choosing between organic and conventional.

Troubleshoot your way to a better iPhone.

Employees on public lands are facing domestic terrorism on the job.