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Over the course of 10 years, the Billion Oyster Project, one of New York’s most ambitious rewilding initiatives, has planted 150 million larvae in its harbour. Did it work?

Communities that seek to safeguard unauthorized migrants could slow the U.S. president-elect’s mass deportation threat

A tiny gladiator figurine was used as a handle on a 2,000-year-old copper folding knife found in an English river, suggesting that popular fascination with the ancient fighters reached the edges of the empire.

Avoid dry turkeys, hungry guests and these other blunders that could ruin Thanksgiving.

When you buy a house, you buy its needed repairs and maintenance—and some houses are harder to keep in good shape than others. Here are the signs you’re buying a longterm maintenance challenge.

The rot runs deeper than almost anyone has guessed.

The agency will add four new technologies including pedestrian automatic emergency braking, lane-keeping assist, blind spot warning, and intervention if a driver tries to move toward a vehicle in a blind spot.

A little-known story of a forgotten artist, an iconoclastic socialite, and an obscure painting that fetched more than a Mondrian and Magritte combined.

A new study suggests that people who give thanks tend to feel less disconnected from others.

Although aesthetically pleasing, combining eggs in a flour well to make fresh pasta is certain to be messy and inefficient.