April 15, 2013, the date of the Boston Marathon bombings, was the saddest recorded day in five years.

Sarah Palin and other high-profile Republicans may be denying the science behind climate change now, but that's not what they were saying before.

Americans will profess their love this Valentine's Day by digging deeper into their wallets than ever before, new research shows.

The gridlock-relieving rapid transit project across Lake Washington is a world's first.

Why is Venus rotating 6.5 minutes slower than it was just 16 years ago?

Today, Brody Moreland is a blur of motion as he chases toys. But for the first 6 months of his life, he barely moved. He was born with severe spina bifida.

The fast-food company denies that pressure from chef Jamie Oliver had anything to do with its decision.

Food news and items of interest from around the Web for your weekend reading.

The USDA is expected to announce that schools will be able to request beef patties with or without the controversial filler.

More than twice as many states put in orders with the USDA this year for ground beef that may contain the controversial lean finely textured beef.

SNAP recipients in certain states will be able to buy groceries from designated retailers during the 2-year pilot.

The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: A city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone.

In the biggest city in America's smallest state, comes a micro-apartment complex that aims to revive a struggling 19th-century indoor shopping center.

Max, in exchange for a bit of household help, resides part-time on his elderly mother's rural property in a converted school bus.

A design firm best known for its repurposed cardboard creations tries its hand at small-scale adaptive reuse with absolutely gorgeous results.

Indie retail and urban downsizing collide at this smart example of adaptive reuse that breathes new life into a historic shopping center.

Did Nutella, the tasty chocolate hazelnut spread, really need more sugar?

Video: How these roly-poly, spineless worms are serving as role models for soft material robots.

Video: Aerial surveillance cameras in some stores track our shopping behavior and help retailers determine what to sell and how to position it.

Hungry purple marsh crabs threaten Cape Cod salt marshes by eating crucial cordgrass.

There's one piece of good news from Japan: All the wind turbines survived the earthquake and are helping to power some regions of the country.

The nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima power plant after the Japanese tsunami a year ago has made Americans more leery of nuclear power, according to a Yale Uni

Community woodworking shops become popular, insect wings microscopically shred bacteria, and the size of ExxonMobil's Arkansas oil spill grows.

Likened to a cathedral, the ornate Crossness Pumping Station reopens for public tours following extensive rehabbing.

The pedestrianization of overcrowded Oxford Street is a long-time dream of many Londoners. Cycling activists, however, feel wedged out of the ambitious plans.

This homemade facial scrub with pineapple and sugar is an anti-inflammatory beauty option with anti-aging properties.

Find juicy fair trade pineapples at your local Whole Foods store -- and enter to win a trip to Costa Rica.

Spinach is a powerhouse of nutrients. With recipes like these, there's no excuse not to reap the health benefits.

Business magnate shares the benefits and practice of daily meditation in his new book 'Success Through Stillness.'

Some of the world's most prominent climate activists are headed to D.C. to protest against a proposed pipeline that would bring Alberta's unconventional oil to

A rural town creates its own luck when it decides to embrace wind energy.

Researchers at Princeton recently studied the question of whether abandoned gas & oil well are leaking methane into the atmosphere.

An eye-opening photo essay documents the haunting towns that were forcibly abandoned following the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

Decorate your table with this inexpensive, natural arrangement that also happens to be compostable.

NYT and Google teamed up to find the most distinctive Thanksgiving dishes by state. Some of the more unusual ones have whipped topping in common.

Don't want to shop on Black Friday but not sure what else to do? Here are some ideas.

HIV might never have become a global pandemic if it wasn't for the ecology of what is now known as Kinshasa, and what was then a 1920s colonial hub.

This surprising discovery won't be enough to stop climate change, but it will help, researchers say.

Shipping containers can be transformed into a variety of innovative homes and hotels.

You can watch Leo DiCaprio's "Before the Flood" free online.

Anxiety and fear give way to joy and awe when we tune into scenes of the natural world, finds a study commissioned by BBC, makers of "Planet Earth II."

Researchers create a new scale to identify dependence on 'retail therapy.' Do you fit the bill?

When her concern about colony collapse disorder reached a peak, this writer put her deep, personal fear of bees aside. Sort of.

These epidemics have hit full force, with scientists scrambling to unravel the causes and, more importantly, the solutions.

Concern over dwindling pollinator populations trumps worries of apiarian disturbances.

And that information isn't as useless as it may seem.

With fresh water supplies contaminated by Hurricane Irma, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees are bucking the rules to keep Key deer in Florida alive.

The Ocean Cleanup is ready to launch plastic-eating System 001 to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

In previous decades, we explored outward. Today's landmarks in science come from looking deeper inside.

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