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Long stereotyped as food for the poor, the local delicacy's gastronomical stature has grown as foodies flock to Oaxaca, Mexico, to sample the crunchy snack.

As it does with other pathogens, your immune system sees drugs as foreign invaders to be expelled from your body. But exploiting this process could reduce the side effects of chemotherapy.

Human society has marked collective dead for millennia. Such monuments have changed with the evolving nature of conflict, something Ukraine is now weighing.

The Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates by a quarter-point during its September meeting.

Two sociologists found that when the pace at which family sizes was shrinking slowed down, starting in the 1990s, progress toward closing the gender pay gap grew sluggish too.

In 2024, seven times more Americans were struck by lightning than were convicted of federal mortgage fraud.

When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.

Learning is understanding, requires challenge and takes time, a science education scholar explains.

A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn't form as researchers previously thought it did.

STEM jobs - ranging from software engineer to physicist, to plumber - tend to be well paid. And women tend to be underrepresented in these fields. New research suggests one reason starts in kids' homes.