A Bay Area startup is taking a shot at ending animal testing, one of medicine's most persistent humanitarian and logistical problems. Drugs that appear promising in mice can fall apart once they reach ...

Record temperatures sweeping East Asia are showing up even beneath the soil in South Korea, where a farmer said potatoes that had appeared healthy ended up underground "like boiled potatoes," The ...

Oregon Health & Science University is planning changes at its primate center that would cut back monkey breeding and experimentation in the state. For animal advocates, the bigger question is what ...

One image showed a dwarf-breed hen with her chicks, and two others focused on broody hens — chickens that pause laying to incubate — with one covering seven eggs and the other 13. The flock was ...

Artificial intelligence's environmental footprint may be much bigger than many people realize. New research indicates that AI's climate toll reaches past the enormous electricity use of data centers.

After two properties drained nearly four-fifths of a reservoir used by about 50 homes, the small French town of Tourrettes-sur-Loup is confronting a water-supply problem. The town urged major cutbacks ...

A Kentucky parent says a middle school agenda filled with bizarre spellings and garbled graphics left her family stunned. It also raised an uncomfortable question about whether artificial intelligence ...

A Maryland gardener is offering hope to anyone who thinks a soggy, disease-prone growing season means all is lost. In a TikTok harvest video, this backyard grower showed off baskets of tomatoes, ...

Even people who do not eat tomatoes can wind up with an oversized crop. That is what happened to one gardener, whose first attempt at growing the fruit led to more plants — and more produce — than ...

A warning from a neighbor's mother about a potential "grudge" turned one homeowner's low-water landscaping plan into a widely discussed online dispute. The conflict did not begin with the landscaping ...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra is proposing free electricity for part of the day in California's governor race, arguing the plan could help millions of households lower their ...

A Wisconsin homeowner shopping for a large rooftop solar setup faced a dilemma while debating the value of adding a Tesla Powerwall. The decision came down to the way their utility priced electricity.