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On a tiny island off the coast of Mozambique, a young frigate bird emerges from his nesting place, looks north and flies off. And for 185 days, he keeps going ... for 34,000 miles.

Seventy years ago, the Philippines won independence on the famous American holiday.

New research debunks the sexist stereotype that women grow bitter and jaded after separating from their husbands.

This summer, Washuta is a writer in residence atop the Fremont Bridge’s unused northwest control tower.

The Stranger covers two UW studies in this roundup. One on gene expression surviving death and another on climate scientists' credibility.

The Syrian civil war, the rise of ISIS and Turkey's willingness to let American air strikes start there make it a prime target.

A good measure of how highly a government values “public safety” is the amount spent incarcerating people; a good measure of how little it values people is how much it costs an individual to be impris

"Humans have an inherent need to trade and this basic need, combined with the immensity of resources that corporations have to offer, can tackle many global challenges, including climate change."

An online debate is swirling around a tactic that academic publisher John Wiley & Sons uses to fight online piracy.

Scientists for the first time have directly detected key organic compounds in a comet.