The final series of April was a clear illustration of how the first month of 2026 went for the San Francisco Giants: It was soul-shattering. After getting beat ...

It's tick season in Saskatchewan. The perennial parasite is back and busy hunting for blood. Emily Jenkins, a professor of veterinary microbiology at the University of Saskatchewan, spoke with ...

U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking as the nation's chief executive and a father, promised a comprehensive review of the Food and Drug Administration amid a salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia ...

Ground covers are the problem solvers of the plant world. They can do everything from preventing erosion on slopes to filling in areas where grass won’t grow to providing food for pollinators. “Many ...

Recently, I was struck by an obvious question: why are most of our fruit and nut plants perennials, but most of our vegetables are annuals? We plant fruit and nut trees or soft-berry bushes and can ...

Once, the only nut butter on the supermarket shelf was peanut butter. Now you can also buy almond, cashew, hazelnut and macadamia nut butters, or blends. So which is the healthiest nut butter to ...

As someone with diabetes, I am always looking for bites that won’t spike my blood sugar. Though I have to be on insulin to live (I have type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease in which my body attacks ...

A super long-blooming native Joe-Pye eupatorium, a new pink-bloomer that’s a hummingbird magnet, and four new perennial flowers that earned national trial-garden honors lead the list of perennial ...

For many growers, vegetable gardens are ephemeral. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and many other common garden plants are annuals: seeded in spring and finished by the fall. But the all-annual ...

TheBurntPeanut, a foul-mouthed virtual peanut that plays the video game "Arc Raiders," is wildly popular on Twitch. The VTuber boasts 1.4 million Twitch followers, many of which are men, and is ...

My favorite bird feeder these days is – drum roll, please – a peanut feeder. It couldn’t be simpler. The feeder is a wire-mesh cylinder, encased by plastic on each end. You fill the cylinder with ...