What parents watch teachers the most? Economic class has a lot to do with report cards.

Dung beetles, ants, and other insects navigate in mysterious ways.

Ramadan is underway for the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims. This year, Ramadan takes place in the dead of summer, a particularly difficult time to fast. 

Climate change may be helping some species thrive. But as evidenced by cephalopods and swans, where one species wins, another loses.

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A recent paper provides evidence that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study reduced the life expectancy of African-American men.

How the medical profession has dealt with alcohol throughout the years.

Food preservatives are a major part of how we live now. But who invented them?

Nutrition labels are changing for the first time since they were introduced two decades ago.

The Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1, 1863. It took over two years for the news to reach some enslaved people.