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As the world’s food supply rushes to accommodate eight and a half billion mouths, scientists pioneer techniques to prevent post-harvest loss, not just react to it. Global food security can often hinge on forces barely larger than a grain of rice.

“I think the question is, why has D.S.A. been able to build a really durable organization over the last decade? What Tascha brought was a sensibility about how to treat people and how to relate to people that is now built into the DNA of D.S.A.”

A long-running conflict in a Ugandan park may provide clues to the origins of human warfare, and how to avoid it.

The heart’s faint magnetic signals can’t be detected at large distances, researchers say

The US war on Iran may have seemed like an irrational move by a president who is as reckless and impulsive as he is destructive. But there was a geopolitical logic behind the attack, based on Washington’s desire to deny China access to vital resource

The department contacted at least three counties to request detailed records about individual voters. A representative told one election official “all 254 counties will be contacted.”

Trump really doesn't understand America's role in the world

Their move had come because the elite enslavers who controlled those southern states believed that Lincoln’s election to the presidency in 1860 itself marked the end of their way of life.

A policy and resource manual tp put a good life for everyone back within reach

US vice-president rails against ‘bureaucrats in Brussels’ interfering in Sunday’s vote during Budapest visit