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$50,000 Anonymous Was a Woman Grants Go to Candida Alvarez, Park McArthur, and More Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization that provides funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed 15 artists who will receive $50,000 grants thi...
Quantum Physicists Shrink and "De-Censor" DeepSeek R1 A group of quantum physicists at the Spanish firm Multiverse Computing claim to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built into ...
Can Mamdani Supercharge New York's Clean Energy Revolution? On a chilly September night in Brooklyn, a diverse crowd gathered in a church for the "People's Hearing for Public Renewables." Though Zohran Mamdani, the expected next mayor of New York...
One of the world's rarest birds, the Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi), has rebounded from near extinction after Indigenous communities on the Indonesian island of Bali committed to protect it under traditional laws. In 2001, just six Bali st...
COP15 Accord is Crucial Step to Stem Biodiversity Loss Against a backdrop of a global biodiversity crisis, delegates from more than 190 countries today agreed on a new set of goals to guide global action through 2030 to halt and reverse the loss ...
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The peregrine falcon, with its striking slate-blue back and bright yellow feet, is one of the most widespread birds on the planet. These impressive raptors are renowned for their hunting prowess, capable of diving at lightning-fast speeds of over 200...
Patricia Wright, a pioneering primatologist, established the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar and began her work there in 1986. As the person who first described the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) to Western science, her contrib...
Conservationists have discovered a previously unknown species of snake, slithering around one of Earth's most unique environments. In naming their new reptile, researchers decided to honor one of popular culture's most unique and beloved wildlife edu...
From Waffle Gardens to Terraces: Indigenous Groups Revive Farming Heritage in America's Deserts In 1985, with two young daughters and little money, Roxanne Swentzell, a Native American sculptor and ceramic artist, returned from her studies in Por...
Thanksgiving, a time of thanks and feasting, often comes with an unanticipated environmental cost. From extra food waste to increased carbon emissions, the holiday season may have a significant impact on our planet. However, choosing eco-friendly opt...
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Scientists & Nuns Unite to Save Mexico's Rare Achoque Salamanders For the last 20 years, Dominican nuns in a Mexican monastery have cared for the largest known captive population of the critically endangered achoque salamander. Now scientists fro...
A morning mist hangs over the palm trees in Pasadena, California, as birds chatter and cars roar by on the streets. It's a scene that evokes a tropical island rather than a bustling city in northeast Los Angeles county. "It feels parrot-y," says Die...
Crafty Creations: 49 Impressive DIY Projects The world is full of talented, creative individuals who pour their hearts into unique DIY projects. From intricate embroidery to whimsical sculptures, these 49 impressive crafts showcase the incredible...
A Slowdown, Not Salvation: New Extinction Data Reveals State of Life on Earth For decades, biologists have warned that humanity is precipitating a sixth mass extinction. By some estimates, species are vanishing at up to a thousand times the natur...
Animals survive in changing and unpredictable environments by not merely responding to new circumstances, but also, like humans, by forming inferences about their surroundings. For instance, squirrels understand that certain bird noises don't signal ...
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Costume Art: Exploring the Bond Between Fashion and Visual Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute is set to open a groundbreaking exhibition called "Costume Art" in spring 2026. This exhibition will examine the deep connection bet...
Ethiopia to Host 2027 UN Climate Talks Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, is expected to be officially announced on Nov. 18 as the host city of the 2027 U.N. climate conference, or COP32. Backed by the African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change...
Scotland has taken a significant step towards its goal of reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2045, releasing a comprehensive draft climate action plan. The plan outlines the country's strategy to reduce emissions across transportation, ene...
Ryan Johnson has spent years thinking about solutions to make car-free living possible across the United States. Inspired by his travels to European cities, he co-founded Culdesac, a real estate developer dedicated to building walkable places, in 201...
7th Graders' Harsh but True Gift Ideas for 30-Year-Olds As children, our Christmas wish lists are filled with fun, exciting gifts. But as we grow older, our desires often shift towards more practical, adult items. Seventh-grade teacher Mr. Frakes...
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France's Largest Rewilding Project Takes Root in the Dauphiné Alps In the foothills of the western Alps in southeastern France, horned alpine ibex roam the limestone cliffs of a smaller mountain range known as the Dauphiné Alps. This region was o...
Are Organic Apples Better for the Soil? Study Challenges Assumptions An investigation into organic apple orchards in Australia has made a surprising discovery: their soils are remarkably similar to those of conventional orchards, where organic fa...
Artist Alona Rodeh's "Nightcaps" is a public art project featuring 15 sculptural additions placed directly on top of existing street lamps in Berlin's Brunnenviertel (Wedding) neighborhood. In the 1960s, when the neighborhood was rebuilt by the soci...
Met Repatriates 18th Century Painting Taken from Buddhist Temple After Korean War The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an 18th-century painting to a Korean temple that once housed a vast depiction of hell. The painting, titled "The Tenth K...
Suckerfish—also known as remoras—are harmless, but the whales didn't seem to be fans of their hitchhiking :focal(1408x697:1409x698)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/87/f5/87f59fd0-9cf5-48dc-9ccd-786ef6066ae6/sc...
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In Southern California, a mother-daughter design team is leading the way in transforming ordinary outdoor areas into extraordinary plant sanctuaries. Their backyard project exemplifies how, after a century of rampant urbanization, we're finally comin...
Newly Described 'Lucifer' Bee Found Visiting Critically Endangered Plant in Australia In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of Western Australia when a bee grabbed her...
From rock music to rainforests: Akhyari Hananto's unlikely path to impact Before dawn breaks over Surabaya, Indonesia's "City of Heroes," Akhyari Hananto is already at work. After morning prayers, he opens Google Analytics to watch the night's re...
Move Over Bob: Changing the Trades so Women Don't Just Join the Workforce—They Lead It When co-founders Kate Glantz and Angie Cacace launched Move Over Bob, they weren't just starting a magazine. They were igniting a movement. "For too long, con...
Woman Feeds Squirrel Daily, Then It Leaves a Surprise Treat Showing kindness doesn't cost a thing, but its impact is always worth its weight in gold. We typically experience kindness from other humans, but all living creatures are capable of maki...
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Metallica Guitarist Sells Iconic Conan Painting for $10M Metallica's lead guitarist Kirk Hammett is auctioning off a prized painting of Conan the Barbarian that he purchased from legendary artist Frank Frazetta in 2009 for $1 million. The work, t...
Devil's Tower, also known as Matotipila or Bear's Lodge, was formed over 50 million years ago. Rising dramatically from the Wyoming Plains, this spellbinding monolith is a pillar of Lakota Sioux mythology and an enduring challenge to rock climbers wo...
'They're Playing Games': Illinois Lawmakers Press for Lead-Pipe Funding Lead pipes are a widespread problem across the United States, with no state having fully eliminated its toxic lead service lines that deliver drinking water to homes and busi...
Hawaii's Short-Finned Pilot Whales Eat Over 77,000 Squid a Year For Hawaii's short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus), squid is the primary food source. These black marine mammals with bulbous heads feed primarily on cephalopods, ...
Rare Parrots Return to Atlantic Forest Fragment Twenty brilliantly colored red-browed amazons took flight over a reserve holding one of the few remaining intact swaths of Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The green-and-red parrots had been missing from ...
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New Uses for Everyday Spaces: South Korea Turns Parking Lots into Solar Power Hubs Parking lots might not seem like climate solutions, but South Korea is proving they can be. Starting this month, any parking lot in the country with more than 80 s...
'Incredibly serious and unbelievably funny' Philip Roth biographer, in Harvard talk, digs into novelist's contradictions, 'true loves,' and recurring themes from lust to Jewish life. Steven J. Zipperstein, the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jew...
Turning Fishing Waste into Biodegradable Plastic Jacqueline Prawira, an MIT senior in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE), has developed biodegradable, plastic-like materials from fish offal, as featured on the CBS show "Th...
This Newly Discovered 'Lucifer' Bee From Australia Was Named After Its Devil-Like Horns Researchers hope the discovery shines a light on bee conservation Down Under A few years ago, wild bee ecologist Kit Prendergast was searching for pollin...
Ulrich Eichelmann has seen many rivers over his lifetime as the head of RiverWatch, an organization dedicated to protecting the world's waterways. He's spent time on the Tigris floating through Turkey and Iraq, on the Tagliamento in Italy, and travel...