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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...
NASA's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The twin spacecraft, built by Rocket...
Following successful small-scale tests over the past months, WhatsApp users in Europe will soon have the option to chat directly with users of messaging apps BirdyChat and Haiket through third-party chats. This marks a significant milestone in Meta's...
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...
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Built between 1972 and 1984, the Fudai floodgate was erected thanks to the insistence of longtime mayor Kotoku Wamura. Wamura was a witness to the 1933 Sanriku tsunami that claimed 137 of Fudai's inhabitants, and he was aware that an even deadlier ts...
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...
Neighbor Builds Single Mom a New Fence for Free A man named Jhonn, who goes by "Uncle Jhonn" on TikTok, has made it his mission to help his neighbors in extraordinary ways. One day, while driving through his neighborhood, Jhonn noticed a fence ly...
Menus Reveal Food's Political Power A nice, warm meal is one of the great unifiers. Food communicates everything from love and tradition like a home cooked dinner to political stances. At a state dinner, food has the power to cultivate understand...
Dawn had just broken across the trail through the Pir Panjal mountains when Fatima Deader felt the first labor pains. She and her family had almost reached the midway point of their 134-mile (215km) trek from Rajouri in Jammu to Kashmir's higher past...
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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...
Fighting for the QueensWay We Were Promised Real families were counting on that money, because the QueensWay is desperately needed in our community. It would provide a green space for kids in 28 schools—many of which, like the school where I work...
Thor Heyerdahl's Former Resting Place in Colla Micheri, Italy Born in 1914 in Larvik, Norway, Thor Heyerdahl became world-famous for his daring expeditions that challenged conventional thinking about ancient maritime capabilities. His most celebr...
Colorectal cancer diagnoses have become increasingly common in adults 50 or younger, particularly in high-income countries like the U.S. A new study led by Harvard and Mass General Brigham researchers suggests an important link to ultraprocessed food...
It seems we're all in our chicken era, and our favorite fast-food restaurants are here for it. Some, like Taco Bell, added chicken to the menu. McDonald's brought back the cult favorite Snack Wrap. And now Chick-fil-A is upping the ante with a new sa...
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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...
Rebuilding Jamaica's Food System After Hurricane Melissa In the three weeks since Hurricane Melissa struck Jamaica, authorities have been addressing immediate crises and assessing the damage. Melissa, the strongest hurricane ever recorded to hit ...
"Just Keep Looking at It": Tom Cruise's Advice for Overcoming Social Anxiety Tom Cruise isn't just a master of action stunts - he's also a source of insightful advice, at least according to his Mission: Impossible co-star Haley Atwell. Atwell, wh...
In 2013, Tarek El Moussa and his now ex-wife, Christina Haack, were becoming big stars on HGTV's Flip or Flop. A keen-eyed viewer contacted the network about her concern for Tarek. She saw a lump on his neck that made her fear he might have cancer....
What if Every Teen Graduated with $1K and an Investment Portfolio? In Clarke County School District in Athens, Georgia, every high school senior has an investment portfolio. This is a stark contrast to the state of financial literacy in the Unite...
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Want to Declutter Your Holidays? Here's How to Ask for No Gifts This Year The saying "less is more" has never rung truer than during these unpredictable and tumultuous times. If our collective concern for the environment isn't enough to encourage...
'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...
Before Curiosity landed 13 years ago, the science team eyed all the geologic wonders scattered across the flanks of Mount Sharp and looked forward to the day when they could put the rover to work on them. The team has visited many of these wonders — ...
Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Maya Cosmogram New Research Sheds Light on Ancient Maya Site in Mexico Five years ago, archaeologists announced the discovery of a massive Maya structure in southeastern Mexico known as Aguada Fénix. Bu...
More than five years after his tragic death, Marvel star Chadwick Boseman will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously. Boseman passed away from colon cancer in August 2020 at just 43 years old, devastating his colleagues and fans. ...
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Wild new "gyromorph" materials could make computers insanely fast Researchers are exploring a new generation of computers that operate using light, or photons, instead of electrical currents. Systems that rely on light to store and process inform...
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, ...
Teacher Told 5th Grader with Gay Dads That 'Homosexuality is Wrong' The world has become more tolerant and progressive in many ways. Support for same-sex marriage, for example, has grown significantly in the United States and is now accepted by a...
Based on the most recent estimates from the International Labour Organization, approximately 27.6 million people are victims of human trafficking worldwide at any given time. In Ghana, forced labor and sexual exploitation are devastatingly common. H...
New Trustees Join Getty Trust Board The J. Paul Getty Trust, the world's wealthiest art trust, has appointed two new members to its board of trustees: Glenn D. Lowry, the former director of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and Lionel M. Sauvage, ...
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After water, concrete is the most-used material in the world. And now, researchers have given this ubiquitous building material super powers. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has found a way to make a type of concrete that can store and r...
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 ...
"Fresh Reggae Tracks" Summer Playlist (LISTEN) Happy Music Monday! It's your pal and selector, Marlon, back once more with a collection to brighten your month. We are into July, and for my money, it's a particularly good time to enjoy some sweet ...
How a Stranger Helped Me Land the Job That Changed My Life One day an Iraqi engineering student at Columbia University met a young woman in a canteen who had stopped off in New York City with friends on her way to Europe. While casually chatting,...
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Epstein-Barr Virus Linked to Lupus Disease Groundbreaking research suggests that the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a common childhood virus, may be the trigger for the autoimmune disease lupus. The study, led by researchers at Stanford University, ...
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...
Tony Cunningham, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition and the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, shares some of his favorite thing...
Job Recruiter Impressed by Candidate's 671-Day Duolingo Streak In the competitive job market, job seekers must be strategic and creative to stand out. One candidate impressed a recruiter by listing their 671-day Duolingo streak alongside fluency ...
Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called SIMA 2 that can navigate and solve problems in a wide range of 3D virtual worlds. The company claims it's a big step toward more general-purpose agents and better real-world robots. Goo...