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’Tis the season for conifers—whether they are being decorated for a little Christmas cheer or merely serving as a vibrant, verdant contrast to their denuded deciduous…

Britain’s budget watchdog has said the early leak of its budget documents before Rachel Reeves made her speech was the “worst failure” in its 15-year history…

Battles over what children should learn in history classes, a fixture of American education debates over the past five years, are once again heating up as…

“Raise your hand if you’ve heard of Thomas Jefferson,” I said to a group of about 70 middle schoolers in Memphis. Hands shot up across the…

As cows grazed sleepily in a nearby paddock, then-14-year-old Leah Bell watched as a local Māori elder cried.She was standing at the site of the massacre…

Melania TrumpTailoring, tightly belted trenchcoats and sharply cut tuxedos are often her style of choice. Occasionally military-inspired, always highly polished and glamourous, Melania Trump’s style has been the subject of…

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Today we’re mainly going to focus on one major story from last week:…

Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many…

What’s the first thing you notice when you step into a museum? Is it the long-faded colors of ancient artifacts from all around the world or…

The last outbreak of cholera in Britain was in 1866; in the United States there has not been an outbreak since 1911.And yet today people are…