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"I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block i...

We asked readers around the country to tell us what the holiest day of the Jewish calendar looks like for them in 2026. Here’s what we learned.

Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal

Here’s some bad news: Sometimes the coyote does win.

Private travel leagues have made youth sports expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming for families. At least investors are making a killing.

“I fear for the day when a visitor's National Park experience is interrupted by being pulled over and held at gunpoint because a license plate reader misread their plate.”

Is Kansas just the beginning?

We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...

Wow, BBC Earth has posted this three-hour-long video to YouTube of David Attenborough narrating Unbelievable Moments From Nature. I’ve had it on in the background for the last little while as I’m working and

From 1990: “Much as he has come to mistrust Defendant’s products, Mr. Coyote has no other domestic source of supply to which to turn.”

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This question comes from Raga, who asks: since rainbows are caused by the refraction of sunlight by tiny droplets of water, what would a rainbow look like if we had two suns like Tatooine?