Will cutting fewer forests, where tick hosts and their predators live, help curb Lyme disease? Scientists debate.

Early credit reporting companies urged people to “Treat their credit as a sacred trust” and argued that keeping a good credit record was a moral concern.

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The photographic pressure to curate our faces is inextricable from the online pressure to curate our lives; to present and perform.

Packrat nests, preserved by a combination of the chemistry of urine and the desert air, open a window into centuries of local climate change.

Startups often don't play by the rules. But a wifi-enabled juicer may have been "trying to solve a problem that didn't exist."

From household plastic to industrial waste, anthropogenic activity has created compounds that poison ecosystems from water to air.

While the GI Bill itself was progressive, much of the country still functioned under both covert and blatant segregation.

For several months in 2016, creepy clowns terrorized America, with sightings of actual clowns in at least 10 different states.

When caused by storms, receding oceans are result of an inverted storm surge, a “negative surge.” Storm surges have a few causes.