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It's a tick that hunts you down and transmits a potentially dangerous allergy to red meat. The New Yorker writer Burkhard Bilger discusses the lone star tick and the risks of alpha-gal syndrome.

NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Beginning no earlier than August 2027, research volunteers will spend one year living and working in interplanetary environments at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, operating under isolated cond...

While the U.S. isn't a bona fide soccer nation yet, the past three weeks have perhaps shown what it would feel like if it were.

England saw its warmest June since records began in 1865 and the second warmest for the whole of the UK according to data just released by the Met Office.

Islanders urged to use water "wisely" after demand soared in heatwave.

Drone attacks by advancing rebel fighters who are besieging El Obeid, Sudan, continue to result in civilian casualties, putting around half a million civilians at grave risk of large-scale atrocities.

More than one million people took to the streets of Mexico City on Tuesday to mark the country's win over Ecuador.

As the U.S. approaches its 250th birthday, Americans reflect on the state of the nation in the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll.

Democrats nominated their candidate to try to unseat a Republican House member and tapped the state's attorney general as a frontrunner for governor.