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"Dance Jazz" (LISTEN) Happy Music Monday, everyone! It's your friend and selector, Marlon West, back again with a new collection of tasty jazz tracks to enjoy today and all week long. Not long ago, I was chatting with a pal who doesn't like jazz...
Native American Heritage Month and How to Be an Ally This Thanksgiving Native American Heritage Month begins in November, a month when many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. While this cultural month has excellent intentions, it is significantly ...
Government Sets Out Plan to Phase Out Animal Experiments The UK government has detailed its plans to fulfill its manifesto pledge to work towards phasing out animal testing. The new proposals include: Replacing Animal Testing by 2025 - By t...
Building a Talking Robot Head Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can engage in lifelike conversations, answering questions like an ancient Greek philosopher. Lifelike Eyes and Custom Mask The robot's moving eyes were...
Zinc-infused Gel Could Aid Soldier Recovery from Blast Injuries For soldiers caught in explosions, survival often comes at a steep physical cost. Blast injuries can tear through muscle and bone, leaving survivors with severe tissue loss and long,...
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No one knows the answer, and that's the point A few weeks after their arrival at the College, 15 first-year students settled into chairs for an unusual class — one with no answers. The brainchild of Dean of Science Jeff Lichtman, "Genuinely Hard...
World's First Transatlantic Robotic Stroke Surgery Performed A robot has collapsed the Atlantic Ocean into a blink, bringing remote stroke treatment closer to reality than ever before. Hours after Professor Iris Grunwald of Dundee performed the w...
Neuroscientists from Columbia University and McGill University have identified a brain chemical that appears to drive depression and suicidal thinking in individuals who faced trauma or hardship during childhood. The researchers found that high leve...
Pop Artist Ed Ruscha Collaborating with andSons on $295 Holiday Chocolate Bar Ed Ruscha, the renowned pop artist, has teamed up with the Los Angeles-based boutique chocolatiers andSons to create a unique holiday chocolate bar. At first, this coll...
Scientists Map the Brain's Construction From Stem Cells to Early Adolescence Like the seeds of a forest, a few cells in embryos eventually sprout into an ecosystem of brain cells. Neurons get the most recognition for their computing power, but a ...
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Extinction Rates Are Slowing, and Conservation Efforts May Be Paying Off For years, headlines have warned that Earth is entering a sixth mass extinction. However, new research suggests this dire picture may be more nuanced and even somewhat hopef...
The Oldest Whales in the Ocean You're probably familiar with the literary classic Moby-Dick by the great Herman Melville. Published in 1851, the novel follows an enraged sea captain, Ahab, in his quest to hunt and kill a huge, ancient albino sp...
World's Longest-Married Couple Shares Secret To 8 Decades Of Wedded Bliss What is the secret to a long-lasting marriage? People have wondered that forever. We see couples who appear so happy and in love, even decades into their relationship. If t...
AI is Helping Doctors Repurpose Old Drugs for New Cures When David Fajgenbaum was in medical school, he was diagnosed with an incurable illness called Castleman disease. At 25 years old, doctors told him "there's nothing we can do," and a priest ...
When I tell people I work for a nonprofit organization that helps veterans, I usually get looks of sympathy. People respond that it's a shame veterans who have done so much for our country are now homeless and wounded and suffer from PTSD. I thank th...
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A 9-year-old Girl Stood Before the School Board and Eviscerated Standardized Tests On March 17, 2015, 9-year-old Sydney Smoot bravely stood up at her local school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida to share her concerns about the Florida S...
Republican Governor Addresses SNAP Cuts, Directs People to 900+ Resources On November 10, Republican Governor J. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma sat down with Democratic Governor Matt Meyer of Delaware at the TEDNext conference in Atlanta, Georgia. As th...
African Artist Collective Calls on Museums to Rectify Their Debt to Plantation Workers In recent years, museums have expressed a desire to reckon with their pasts - returning looted objects, acknowledging indigenous land rights, and diversifying ...
Outsmart Your Brain: 3 Thinking Traps (and Practical Fixes) from a Yale Psychologist The mind loves shortcuts. They help us move fast. Sometimes a little too fast. That's the core idea in Yale psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn's book Thinking 101: How...
Scott Hamilton Lives With A Brain Tumor But Won't Let It Rule His Life Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton wowed the crowds at the 1984 Olympics with his incredible figure skating. He continued to skate professionally until 2001, but a 1997 canc...
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Fisherman Uncovers Massive Medieval Silver Treasure A fisherman searching for worms near Stockholm, Sweden, made an incredible discovery - a corroded copper cauldron containing around 13 pounds of medieval silver treasure, including an estimated ...
AI and quantum technologies are dramatically reshaping the cybersecurity landscape, redefining the speed and scale at which digital defenders and their adversaries can operate. The Rise of AI-Powered Cyberattacks The weaponization of AI tools f...
Reese Witherspoon Returns to Harvard in a Different Role Reese Witherspoon, the acclaimed actress and producer, recently visited Harvard University in a new capacity - as an entrepreneur and media executive. Witherspoon, best known for her role a...
Quantum Optics on a Chip Brings Scalable Quantum Computers Closer Germany has taken a major step toward realizing scalable quantum computers with the launch of SmaraQ, a collaborative research initiative that integrates quantum optics directly on...
Unlocking Innovation Through Patent Sharing From the invention of the seat belt to the development of electric engines, creative thinking has driven innovation and helped change the world. However, countless other ideas remain hidden, trapped beh...
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Physicists Prove the Universe Isn't a Simulation The idea that our universe might be nothing more than an elaborate computer simulation has been a favorite theme in science fiction for decades. Yet new research from UBC Okanagan suggests that not...
Representatives of the Artemis Accords signatories, including acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy and NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya, met on September 29, 2025, for a principals meeting during the 76th International Astronautical Congre...
This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through November 8) Computing The Next Big Quantum Computer Has Arrived Helios contains 98 physical qubits, and from those can deliver 48 logical error-corrected qubits. This 2:1 rati...
Study Sheds New Light on the Moon's Biggest Impact Crater When NASA's Artemis program lands astronauts near the moon's south pole in the coming years, they will find themselves in an unexpected treasure trove of clues that could help scientists b...
NASA and Blue Origin are reopening media accreditation for the launch of the agency's ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission. The twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will study the solar wind's interaction with Mars, providing ...
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October's Night Sky Notes: Let's Go, LIGO! September 2025 marks ten years since the first direct detection of gravitational waves as predicted by Albert Einstein's 1916 theory of General Relativity. These invisible ripples in space were first dir...
We're taking more photos than ever, thanks to the convenience of having powerful cameras packed into our smartphones. And unless you want to risk losing all of those precious moments, you need to think about backing up your images and videos. Google...
Solving a 700-Year-Old Mystery: The Assassination of a Young Hungarian Duke Researchers have finally confirmed the identity of a mysterious skeleton first discovered over a century ago. In 2018, an interdisciplinary team set out to determine whet...
The winners of the 2025 Epson International Pano Awards have been announced, showcasing photographs of our great, big, beautiful world in ultra-wide glory. Italy's Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) won the Open Photographer of the Year and the Natur...
Fei-Fei Li, founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) and a pioneering computer scientist, was named a laureate of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. The prestigious award, presented by His Majesty King Charle...
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Community Dental Services CIC (CDS) is proud to announce the launch of its new green mobile dental unit. This state-of-the-art mobile clinic is designed to deliver essential dental care across communities while dramatically reducing environmental imp...
Voice of DOJ Experience Makes Case for 'Deference Doctrine' When a federal agency or official's decision is challenged in court, judges typically trust that the government is acting in good faith, a tradition known as the "presumption of regulari...
In Fairbanks, fiddling thrives—bridging cultures, sustaining traditions and filling the dance floor with life By Erin Gifford - Freelance writer November 7, 2025 :focal(2016x1517:2017x1518)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazona...
Chick-fil-A is getting into the holiday spirit with the return of a fan-favorite seasonal treat and the launch of a new line of festive merchandise. Beginning November 10, Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide will offer the beloved Peppermint Chip Mil...
Thousands of mollusks and worms have been discovered by a Chinese submersible in the Mariana Trench, almost six miles below sea level. The new study revealed it is the deepest colony of animals ever observed. "Hadal trenches, some of the Earth's lea...