The protein is called CIRBP, and it plays a key role in repairing double-strand breaks in DNA, a type of genetic damage that can cause disease and shorten lifespan in a variety of species, including ...

Americans love beef with the average person eating three hamburgers a week—a choice that’s getting much more expensive. As of ...

Lakewood, Colorado—Looking for your next read? How about a mystery that delves into a past that perhaps no one has ever heard before. There’s a library that holds those stories—stories of how our ...

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to temporarily stop an expansion of the immigration detention center called “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades, while she considers whether ...

Ventura, Calif.—It’s a flawless sunny day in Ventura, California. In the coastal city, north of Los Angeles, surfers bob on boards watching the swells for the ideal wave. If you want a long ride, here ...

When Paul Thompson was a child growing up outside Houston in the early 1980s, severe weather and hurricanes frightened him—especially nighttime storms with the bright flashes and loud booms of ...

The federal government runs programs that pay farmers for crop losses from severe drought. Now, two men in Colorado are going to prison for tampering with gauges used to measure drought, in a ...

The report from the Energy Department was submitted as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed rule last week to repeal the Endangerment Finding made in 2009 that said greenhouse ...

In good news last week, Morocco and Sierra Leone ratified the High Seas Treaty that seeks to protect marine biodiversity in international waters—those beyond the jurisdiction of any country. The two ...

In 1860, when Colorado was still a territory and the gold rush was on, farmers who settled on the eastern plains were looking for another source of wealth—water. The state’s prairie is mostly without ...