The virtual water trade reveals significant disparities between water-rich states and their trade partners.

The most influential character on Showtime’s Yellowjackets is the one who goes unnamed: Dionysus.

Everybody loves salamanders, especially the exotic pet industry. But importing these amphibians helps spread diseases like Bsal and Bd to native populations.

As outlets that welcome rational exchanges of ideas dwindle those that serve as echo chambers are exploding. What does that mean for free speech and the health of the US?

Researchers are concerned not only with our exposure to mis- and disinformation but with the depth of confidence people have in their inaccurate beliefs.

Few foods elicit such strong reactions as chili peppers. Why do we love something that hurts so much?

Is birdsong music, speech, or something else altogether? The question has raged for millennia, drawing in everyone from St. Augustine to Virginia Woolf.

New laws regarding transgender youth are based on the assumption that the gender binary is natural.

Marine reserves may solve a common but challenging bycatch problem in fisheries.

Climate science frequently references ice cores, but it's what is in the cores that matters to science and history.