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Brawls over the honesty of online and cable news today owe their origins to World War I and a debate that divides us still

Tai Chi, yoga, water exercises and other low-impact workouts may help prevent severe falls among older adults

We still expect children to express emotions in gendered ways. It’s harmful and needs to stop

A new film details the history of Ed Dwight and NASA’s first Black astronaut candidates

Mosquito experts break down how to choose and use the best mosquito repellents

Microplastics are everywhere, Olympic ambitions for the Seine River are complicated by poop, and the Starliner spacecraft delays its return to Earth.

Education and enforcement can only go so far in reducing crashes when badly designed roads are filled with large cars

A botched geoengineering experiment to limit the amount of sunlight hitting Earth hasn’t dimmed donors’ enthusiasm for funding the research

Lucy, a 3.2-million-year-old fossilized hominin, may have been much less hairy than we imagine—a perhaps shocking revelation for our modern sense of nakedness

Melting glaciers are creating a green energy windfall in Iceland—but for how long?

Companies attract venture funding for redesigned psychedelic drugs

Lynn Conway, a trans woman and advocate for LGBTQ rights, was underappreciated and often underrecognized for her work in chip design