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If it seems like your seasonal allergies are getting worse over time, you're probably not wrong.

Are you an 'orchid' or a 'dandelion' parent? Researchers are uncovering the hidden personality traits that can shape our family life.

In 1910, a failed House bill sought to increase the availability of low-cost meat by importing hippopotamuses that would be killed to make “lake cow bacon”

Kate Hall, the home cooking consultant behind the Full Freezer website, tries to help people get the best out of their freezer, whether that is preserving leftovers or buying frozen in the shops.

It's a game changer.

School officials are used to high-profile students on campus. But not in college basketball, and never someone whose father is LeBron James.

A POLITICO analysis shows that pandemic-era policies reversed the trend toward a widening income gap. The move away from them threatens those gains. Which way will Biden turn?

Far from being a blueprint for an organism, genes are mere tools used by life’s true expert builders: cells.

Most academic books aren’t written to be read—they’re written to be “broken.” That should change.