Gallery: Federal Shutdown for Conservation and Ag Science?

To keep communications secure in a post-quantum world, cryptographers are digging down into the concept of cause and effect.

States across the US are looking to take major sources of pollution and use them to generate much-needed power.

Garlic, as your grandmother may have told you, repels mosquitoes; it also completely blocks them from mating and laying eggs. Diallyl disulfide, it turns out, deserves the credit.

Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.

The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

The many methods we use to gather data ultimately boil down to either counting or comparing.