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Many of the nation’s wetlands are being filled with toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” as wastewater treatment plant effluent tainted with the compounds is increasingly used to…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.Last April I spent a harrowing hour of my life trying to get tickets to a show…

Ken Henry, the former Treasury boss, slipped up during his address to the National Press Club this week.Speaking in his capacity as chair of the Australian…

There are many ways to test the intelligence of an artificial intelligence—conversational fluidity, reading comprehension or mind-bendingly difficult physics. But some of the tests that are…

If the mindless felling of the Sycamore Gap tree has taught us anything, it is that there is no such thing as “just a tree”, as…

When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox that devastated the Indigenous people, plundered stocks of salmon and herring, hunted down deer and other…

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system…

England and Wales’ embattled water regulator will be abolished under recommendations from a government-commissioned review due out on Monday, the Guardian understands.Ministers will announce next week…

What Is the Blood Vessel Disease Trump Is Diagnosed With?After photographs showed President Donald Trump with swollen ankles and bruised hands, the White House revealed he…

The journey of Tex, a young grizzly bear that gripped public attention in Canada after swimming to a tiny populated island, came to a violent end…