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The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center turned 60 this year. We're celebrating with six of our favorite stories since ...

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Climate action has been slow, which means that the world is in for considerable warming, more extreme weather and more harm ...

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From a "decoy" bill to a statewide election of schoolchildren, this is how the Florida panther became the official state ...

In industrial production, Hong Kong's status as a free port, combined with the supply chain strengths of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, allows local companies to adjust quickly to ...

It's that time of year again – and my personal favorite corner of science to look back on – when we recap the many ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

After a decade of construction, the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) ushers in an all-new era of neutrino ...