Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These contaminants – arsenic, cadmium, lead, and others – may be invisible to the eye, ...

At the beginning of April, this journalist was invited to make the pilgrimage to Los Alambiques, a recently constructed ...

Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ...

Throughout the Yangtze River Delta, a region in southern China famed for its widespread rice production, farmers grow belts ...

Waste or lost food cost more than $1 trillion, according to the World Bank. “Upcycled” ingredients could be part of the ...

Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

1. Gov. Maura Healey visited UMass Chan Medical School to talk about how funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health will affect Massachusetts. The school received $197 million in NIH funding ...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that the administration must “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return, and a federal judge presiding ...

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Read more › The Trump administration on Sunday evening doubled down on its assertion that a federal judge cannot force it to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported ...

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