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In Seoul, garbage cans automatically weigh how much food gets tossed in the trash. In London, grocers have stopped putting date labels on fruits and vegetables to reduce confusion about what is...

“We know about white-led movements for social change in a way that has a tendency, in the public square, to overshadow Black brilliance, Black leadership and Black organizational capacity,” Professor Foreman said.“Why...

But now, “Illumina has a bunch of patents, and they are about to expire,” said Dr. Gelb. “Others are ready to move in.” Ultima has raised a reported $600 million in funding...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — It was Lachlan Rutledge’s sixth birthday, but as he mustered a laborious breath and blew out one candle, it was his mother who made a wish: for a...

Russia has put Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in the cross hairs of combat, but it was not the first nation to attack an operational reactor in war. That was the United...

Russia has put Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in the cross hairs of combat, but it was not the first nation to attack an operational reactor in war. That was the United...

“The agonizing screams of pigs confined to these cages were so loud we couldn’t hear each other talk,” Mr. Hsiung said. The two piglets they took on their way out, he said,...

For the past three decades, art historians have questioned the authenticity of two paintings by Vermeer held in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington. They were the only...

After almost a decade of talks, the nations of the world committed Friday to drastically lower emissions of planet-warming gases from the world’s airplanes by 2050, a milestone in efforts to ease...

When Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, proposed a national ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, the bill sparked controversy across the political spectrum. But few spoke of its...