Customs officers fight against drug smuggling at airports, air cargo inspection facilities and the international mail center.

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Egyptian geese are aggressively territorial. During mating, they are monogamous, making it likely the pair fighting the ...

Beneath the cliffs of western Colorado, a billion years of geologic history unfolds—and a century-old dream of accessibility still shapes the land.

Nearly 60 square miles burned and 100,000 people were displaced. Now many are holding on to what they found—in their homes ...

Low levels of vitamin D seem to raise your risk of heart attack but scientists are still figuring out why—and whether ...

Few scenes in the Christian imagination are as iconic as the three travelers kneeling before the infant Jesus, their camels ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s ...

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Rapper Bad Bunny may have shone a light on Puerto Rico’s cultural riches recently, but the Caribbean island has long been a ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

The pickleback (a shot of whisky followed by a shot of pickle brine) may have had its heyday in the 2000s, but pickle-forward ...