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AI-powered 'Conversation Isolating' Headphones People often struggle to focus on a single conversation in noisy, crowded rooms filled with overlapping chatter. This challenge can be especially overwhelming for those with hearing difficulties. Re...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine say that hydrogen sulfide, the chemical behind that telltale rotten-egg smell of flatulence, might help protect the aging brain from cognitive decline, including Alzheimer's disease. While the idea of your body ...
Security Camera Footage Captures 3-Year-Old Boy Rescuing Friend from Drowning Swimming pools can provide endless hours of fun, but they also pose serious dangers for young children who haven't learned to swim. According to the World Health Organi...
When U.S. President Donald Trump addressed the United Nations General Assembly in late 2025 and dismissed climate change as a "con job", the scientific community reacted with alarm. Months earlier, The Guardian had reported that his anti-climate agen...
Climate change, including high temperatures and heat waves, poses serious risks to the environment, food systems, and human health. New research now suggests it may also lead to delays in early childhood development. The study, published in the Jour...
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Today Finally Announces Hoda Kobt's Replacement When Hoda Kotb left the Today Show in September 2024, it was deeply affecting. She and Jenna Bush Hager worked side by side for years, so finding a replacement would not be easy. For the past year, ...
A Stunned Ricki Lake Finds Lost Photos at Flea Market Nearly a year after losing her home in the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, actress and TV personality Ricki Lake received an unexpected surprise. Artist Patricia "Patty" Scanlon stumbled up...
Woman's Speedy Shoe Tying Trick Using Only Her Pinky Fingers Teaching children how to tie their shoes can be a frustrating process for both parents and kids. Adults often try to turn it into an imaginative game, using the laces to represent bunny...
Female Galápagos Birds Flaunt Their Sexual Partners. The Males Don't Seem to Mind. A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their "freewheeling" lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, female Nazca boobies (Sula granti) will ...
Kasper Røjkjær Andersen and Simona Radutoiu, professors of molecular biology at Aarhus University, have reached a remarkable conclusion in their new research. They have identified small receptor changes in plants that could help reduce agriculture's ...
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AI Bionic Hand Grips with Human-like Precision Engineers at the University of Utah have developed a bionic hand with AI-powered precision and intuitive control. By equipping a commercial prosthetic with pressure and proximity sensors, and trainin...
An Ancient Sense With Deep Psychological Impact Researchers are uncovering how temperature influences the way we perceive our own bodies, offering new insight into the "skin-to-brain" signals that shape bodily awareness. This growing understandi...
"Quantum Antenna" Breaks Barrier in Measuring Elusive Terahertz Signals Breakthrough in Terahertz Frequency Comb Measurement A research team from the Faculty of Physics and the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Centre of New Techn...
Turning a Restaurant into an Art Gallery for Black Artists in Detroit For years, Marcus Jones and Akunna Olumba noticed a lack of art galleries and shows in Detroit, Michigan that specifically showcased Black artists. As Black business owners, th...
AI Chatbots Mimic Human Social Networking Behavior As AI becomes more integrated into our daily lives, understanding how these systems navigate social interactions is crucial. A new study suggests that AI models like GPT-4, Claude, and Llama exhi...
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Here is the article in Markdown format: The Ten Best Photography Books of 2025 Our favorite titles this year invite readers to take in the beauty of nature and our cultural rituals. Anna Atkins: Photographer, Naturalist, Innovator by Corey ...
What's Working, Not on Front Lines of AI in Classroom As AI becomes more accessible to students, educators and school leaders are working to integrate the technologies effectively rather than fight against them. Harvard's Graduate School of Educa...
This Surprising Discovery Rewrites the Milky Way's Origin Story Published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a new study examines the origin of a long-standing mystery within the Milky Way: two clearly defined groups of stars...
Newly Established UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art Names Kathryn Kanjo as First Director This fall, the University of California, Irvine, and Orange County Museum of Art completed their amicable merger, creating a new entity: the UC ...
Facebook's focus has always been to make it easy to stay close to the people and things you love. Today, the company is introducing improvements that help cut through the clutter so users can easily update their profile, find new content via search, ...
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Taxes: The Price of Democracy While death may be the great equalizer, taxes have always been far more complicated. Vanessa S. Williamson's new book, The Price of Democracy: The Revolutionary Power of Taxation in American History, takes readers ...
Nnena Kalu Wins Turner Prize, Becoming First Learning-Disabled Artist to Take UK's Top Art Award Nnena Kalu, a 59-year-old artist from Glasgow, has been named the winner of the 2025 Turner Prize, the UK's most prestigious art award. She is the fi...
Australia has just launched one of the largest batteries in the world, with a storage capacity of 1.6 gigawatt hours (GWh) and the ability to supply electricity to up to 200,000 homes during the evening peak. The Melbourne Renewable Energy Hub is a ...
The planet has been flipping between two main modes of carbon recovery depending on the state of coral reefs, new research suggests :focal(597x336:598x337)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/0b/9a/0b9ab0d9-7b43-4...
Researchers find vast majority of speakers tend to be supporters; unclear why so few detractors appear. Public input is a key part of the drug approval process, occurring during hearings before FDA advisory committees that make recommendations to su...
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When it was built between 1790 and 1793 by industrialist Samuel Oldknow, Mellor Mill was the largest spinning mill ever constructed, and it was also quite an imposing structure by the standards of the early Industrial Revolution. Located in a rural...
In mid-November, members of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians were called in to salvage the remains of a beached humpback whale on the central Oregon coast. The young whale, estimated to be around two years old, was found stranded on November...
A coin minted during the reign of one of Great Britain's most famous monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603), recently fetched a record price at auction. The officially designated Elizabeth I "Ship" Ryal of 15 Shillings, minted between 1584-1586, sol...
New Designs for Notre-Dame Windows Displayed, Swedish Climate Activists Acquitted for Smearing Paint on Monet Artwork, and More: Morning Links for December 9, 2025 Notre Dame's New Colors Despite heated controversy over a proposal to replace...
Michelle Hoehn is a cost accountant at NASA's Stennis Space Center, where her work contributes to NASA's Artemis program that will send astronauts to the Moon to prepare for future human exploration of Mars. As a seventh grader, the Bogalusa, Louisi...
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Demand for electricity is increasing, and the U.S. electric grid will need to expand in response. However, a new study has found a tradeoff between cost, emissions, and reliability when it comes to grid expansion strategies. The study analyzed two p...
The Year in Black Art: Six Group Exhibitions The year 2025 saw several solo exhibitions by well-known Black artists, including Kerry James Marshall, Amy Sherald, Rashid Johnson, Jack Whitten, Lorna Simpson, and Elizabeth Catlett. Following his ex...
Extreme mass-ratio inspirals Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark matter near massive black holes. The study examines extreme mass-ratio inspirals, or EMRIs: sy...
Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging black holes, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, which includes Columbia University astronomer Maximiliano Isi, has captured a remarkably similar event with far greater detai...
Indigenous communities have tended and used elderberries as a sacred plant and medicine for centuries. Elderberries are traditionally shared within tribal communities, not commercialized. Elderberries grow throughout the U.S., but most are imported ...
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A new 'fairy lantern' species is found at a Malaysian picnic site In November 2023, naturalist Gim Siew Tan chanced upon an unusual plant with whitish-peach flowers growing near the buttress of a tree at a popular picnic site in Hulu Langat Fores...
Why do neurons die in dementia, and can this process be slowed down? A research group led by Prof. Marcus Conrad, Director of the Institute of Metabolism and Cell Death at Helmholtz Munich and Chair of Translational Redox Biology at the Technical Uni...
People often say that good journalism requires a 30,000-foot view. However, Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler has found the opposite to be true. The stories that move the world rarely start in boardrooms or at summits; they start with someone stand...
Supermassive Black Hole Unleashes Powerful Winds A supermassive black hole about 130 million light-years from Earth has been observed unleashing powerful winds, flinging material out into space at an astonishing 37,282 miles per second - over one...
Reba McEntire's Daughter-in-Law Shares Inspiring Message of Hope Following Devastating Loss Pregnancy loss is a subject that many women don't want to talk about. The excitement they feel about bringing a new baby into the world can come crashing ...