Once the towering giant of skyscraper construction, the US is falling behind Eastern countries — but American architectural ingenuity is still coveted.

There are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. But scientists have been able to clone ferrets from genetic specimens collected in the 1980s. Here & Now’s ...

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Mosquitoes have been biting people for more than a million years and probably much longer. An analysis of 38 modern mosquitoes’ DNA suggests an ancestral mosquito species developed a preference for ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...

The Ag Expo and the Burrowing Owl Festival are among the top family-friendly activities happening this week in SWFL. Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall will host The Righteous Brothers and the ...

Cranston man accused in I-95 drive-by shooting appears for arraignment A man who is accused in a drive-by shooting on Interstate 95 in Providence that shut down the highway for hours in December was ...

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Around 60 children sat in attendance at the Nahant Town Hall on Tuesday for a live animal show by Curious Creatures, an ...

The Austin Public Library (APL) is marking its 100th anniversary with a yearlong series of "Centennial Celebrations" honoring the library’s history and service to the growing Austin community. The ...

A powerful blizzard dumped heavy snow across Richmond, Rhode Island on Monday, leaving some neighborhoods with snow piled to knee height and forcing residents t Care New England staff strap on skis, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, a plant-eating creature that lived 315 million years ago during the ...