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America is in the thick of a tick boom. Health departments logged 89,240 confirmed or probable Lyme disease cases in 2023, ...
A hard-driving space probe is still cruising beyond Pluto, its instruments healthy and its fuel tanks half full. Yet a single ...
A blue-and-white Waymo van rolls up to a stoplight near Austin’s South Congress Avenue, sensors spinning in the sun. In three ...
A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...
When farmers in Colombia stumbled upon Pablo Escobar’s cash dumps buried in their fields, they sometimes hit payday without ever planting a crop. Thirty years ...
The James Webb Space Telescope is only three years into operations, yet it keeps slipping the cosmic rug out from under ...
Jeff Bezos once said Amazon was Day 1 forever. It will always strive for innovation, unlike Day 2, with is stasis and smells ...
For decades the border city of Imperial Beach has juggled closure signs and protest banners as millions of gallons of sewage ...
High above the windswept Ross Ice Shelf, a helium balloon the size of a football stadium drifts in the polar twilight. Slung ...
Pull off Interstate 5 in Mission Viejo next spring and you’ll find a Costco that sells only one thing: gasoline.
At 8:58 a.m. on June 30, a half-dozen shoppers in black-bordered cards will stroll past the still-dark food-court ovens while ...
A Kansas cornfield just pulled a fast one on climate pessimists. Beneath stalks that never leave their county, researchers ...