A compound found in python blood could lead to a new kind of weight loss drug, one that suppresses appetite without some of ...

Florida's Python Elimination Program pays certified hunters to remove the invasive snakes from the Everglades. Burmese pythons have caused a severe decline in native small mammal populations in South ...

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Bills in the Iowa Legislature would require using the federal SAVE database to check someone's citizenship when they register to vote or apply for a driver's license, job or public assistance program.

The science of movie theater “innovation” in the 2020s has largely been the science of trying to get ever-more blood out of a dwindling population of stones. This is all over the concession stand, ...

Another report, another dire prediction about Social Security. The Congressional Budget Office now estimates that the program’s trust fund will run out of money in 2032, during the next presidential ...

Higher education finds itself, once again, in an era of turmoil and change. The enrollment cliff, dreaded for the past decade, has finally arrived and with it the closing of almost 100 universities ...

MILLCREEK, Utah — Some heroes wear capes, but others have fur and four legs. When the unthinkable happens during veterinary visits, dogs and cats need blood transfusions just like humans do. At ...