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One hemisphere has summer, while the opposite has winter. Prasit photo/Moment via Getty Images

Education

Why can’t it always be summer? It’s all about the Earth’s tilt

Staff Writer - September 22, 2024

Stephanie Spera, University of Richmond Why can’t it always be summer? – Amanda, age 5,...

EXPLORING NATURE

Swimmers gather at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach for a Polar Plunge to start the new year, Jan. 1, 2025. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Business

Supreme Court sides with San Francisco, requiring EPA to set specific...

Staff Writer - March 5, 2025

Robin Kundis Craig, University of Kansas The U.S. Supreme Court has limited how flexible the Environmental Protection Agency and...

How emotionally close you are to your pet is not necessarily a good measure of how your relationship affects your well-being. Nattalia Nuñez/Unsplash, CC BY-ND

Just having a pet doesn’t help mental health – but pet-owners...

March 1, 2025

Parts of the North Fork of the Kentucky River flooded in July 2022, and again in February 2025. Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

Why people rebuild in Appalachia’s flood-ravaged areas despite the risks

February 26, 2025

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has made it his life’s mission to delay aging and death. Netflix

The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught...

February 23, 2025

In the toxic male technique, genetically engineered male insects would implant semen containing toxic venom into the female insects during mating. Madugrero/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease...

February 23, 2025