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Mamdani's Immigration Transition Team to Focus on Fortifying City's Sanctuary Laws The first meeting of the Immigration Justice Committee, one of 17 groups the mayor-elect has assembled to advise on his transition to City Hall, is expected to tak...
Nearly 70 million years ago, mosasaurs were the stuff of nightmares. Multiple species of the apex marine reptiles lived during the Late Cretaceous, often growing anywhere from 30 to 40 feet-long. But as dangerous as the ancient, great white shark-siz...
Gen X Woman's Joke About the Lack of Jennifers in 'Stranger Things' is Spot-On When Stranger Things landed on Netflix, many Gen Xers felt an immediate jolt of recognition. The bikes, the walkie-talkies, the wood-paneled basements—it all felt like...
Kelp-Based Clothing: A Sustainable Fashion Solution The fashion industry has long relied on plastic-based materials, with approximately 60% of all fashion materials made from plastic, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. These s...
Scientists Uncover How Tiny "Nanopores" Learn Like the Brain Identifying the Forces Behind Rectification and Gating A research team led by Matteo Dal Peraro and Aleksandra Radenovic at EPFL has now clarified the physical origins of these beh...
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Recovering Sunflower Sea Stars by Freezing Their Larvae A Deadly Pathogen Decimates an Ecosystem Keystone Ravaged by an infectious bacteria, sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) literally wasted away across the Pacific coast of N...
New Immunotherapeutic Targets for Glioblastoma Glioblastoma is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer in adults. Despite standard treatment, fewer than half of patients survive longer than 15 months, and only 5% live beyond five year...
Kylie Kelce's Daughter Interrupts Mom's Podcast in the Most Adorable Way Dad of four, Michael Bublé, joined mom of four, Kylie Kelce, on the latest episode of her Not Gonna Lie podcast. The pair talked about Christmas and the wonder of the holida...
Elephant Seals Recognize Rival Voices Elephant seals spend most of their lives at sea, returning to shore just twice every year to molt and breed. The breeding season typically includes males weighing thousands of kilograms violently clashing wit...
Breakthrough in Measuring Zero-Point Motion Using the world's most powerful X-ray laser, scientists have filmed atoms performing an eternal quantum dance that never stops — even at absolute zero. This first-ever direct view of zero-point motion r...
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'Wonder' Director Senses Your Skepticism In a time of division, anger, and loneliness, a musical based on the beloved children's book "Wonder" asks us to choose kindness. But director Taibi Magar expects some to be skeptical. "Some people meet t...
A future lunar lander bound for the dark side of the moon will carry along a piece of equipment that could make these missions a little bit brighter. The lander in question is operated by Firefly Aerospace, the first commercial company to successfull...
A Man Edited Himself Into a Classic 'Shrek' Scene for the Ultimate Wedding Proposal A man named Carter popped the question to his longtime girlfriend Andressa by editing himself into a climactic scene from the 2001 animated film Shrek. The secret...
Pat Sajak and Vanna White have been a fixture on Wheel of Fortune for more than 40 years. When Pat announced his retirement plans in June 2023, many wondered what the future would hold for the show and Vanna. Ryan Seacrest took over as host in Sept...
Activists Offer $1M for Climate Nobel Prize A group of climate activists, led by tree-planting search engine Ecosia, has launched a campaign urging the Nobel Committee to create a new award recognizing achievements in climate and planetary health...
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The Lee Fendall House Museum and Garden is a historic Alexandria residence that once belonged to generations of notable Americans, including lawyer Edmund Jennings Lee, Alexandria mayor E.E. Downham, and influential labor leader John L. Lewis. In tot...
Stop Saying "We Can't Afford That" to Your Kids Talking with kids about money can be tricky. Parents want to help their young children understand how money works while also making it clear that they can't buy that toy right now. Saying "We can't ...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Repatriates 2,500-Year-Old Treasures to Turkey The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond has returned 41 terracotta relief fragments valued around $400,000 to Turkey. The works, acquired by the VMFA in the 1...
Orcas and Dolphins Cooperate to Hunt Salmon Researchers have documented for the first time orcas (killer whales) and Pacific white-sided dolphins working together to hunt salmon off the coast of British Columbia, Canada. The study, published in t...
Billionaire Bill Koch's $50M American West Art Collection Heads to Christie's Billionaire Bill Koch, the lesser-known Koch brother, is selling his extensive collection of American West artworks through Christie's. The "Visions of the West" sale w...
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Researchers Analyze Data From 25 Studies Researchers analyzing data from 25 studies have found that people with anxiety disorders consistently show lower levels of choline, an essential nutrient involved in brain signaling and emotional regulati...
Scientists Melt Cancer's Hidden "Power Hubs" and Stop Tumor Growth RNA Builds Liquid Hubs That Drive Tumor Growth A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that RNA, which normally passes along genetic messages, can be repurpo...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Spies Solar Wind 'U-Turn' Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the Sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields...
The elites of Ancient Rome went to great lengths to advertise their status and wealth. Recent archaeological excavations in Egypt have revealed that some high-ranking military officials even showed off with their choice of exotic pets. In the Journa...
Your Cat Might Hold the Key to Alzheimer's Cats with Dementia Show Brain Changes Seen in Alzheimer's Patients Cats with dementia show the same brain changes seen in Alzheimer's patients, suggesting that our feline companions could hold vital...
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Every December, as winter settles softly over Delhi, the British High Commissioner's residence at Rajaji Marg begins to change. Strings of lights go up, familiar faces return, and long tables fill with handcrafted treasures. In the middle of this gen...
Stressed Rats Keep Returning to Cannabis, and Scientists Know Why It isn't just people - when given the chance, rats may also use cannabis to cope with stress, according to a study by researchers at Washington State University. Published in the ...
Post-Fair Expands for Its Second Edition With Broader International Reach Post-Fair will return to Santa Monica from February 26–28 for its second edition, bringing 30 galleries—and 31 total exhibitors including the project space Untitled Love—ba...
As Fish Catches Fall and Seas Rise, Douala's Residents Join Efforts to Restore Mangroves Henry Belle Ekam, a 37-year-old fisherman in Douala, Cameroon, cuts a frustrated figure as he paddles his boat to the shore in the Bojongo neighborhood. Afte...
Maryland Judge Paula Xinis has granted Kilmar Abrego Garcia's request to be released from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody. Abrego Garcia, a native of El Salvador and resident of Maryland, has become a symbol of the Trump admini...
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For years, philosophers and psychologists have debated whether empathy helps or hinders the ways people decide how to help others. Critics of empathy argue that it makes people care too narrowly—focusing on individual stories rather than the broader ...
San Francisco-based pharmaceutical company OKAVA is investigating an implant that slowly releases a GLP-1 medication for up to six months :focal(2600x1969:2601x1970)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/26/59/2659f...
Africa's Wildlife Has Lost a Third of Its 'Ecological Power,' Study Says A recent study has quantified the impact of biodiversity and abundance losses on ecological functions in Africa by tracking the energy flows within ecosystems. The findings ...
Asexual Parasitic Plants Break Biology's Rules Photosynthesis is a staple of biology, with plants using the sun and water to produce their own food. However, not all of the over 300,000 known plant species are food-producing powerhouses that repr...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has suddenly reversed its 2022 National Language Policy that mandated the use of Indigenous languages as the medium of instruction for the first six years of schooling. The government has now re-introduced English as...
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Lisa Su '90, SM '91, PhD '94 to Deliver MIT's 2026 Commencement Address Lisa Su, a leading executive in the semiconductor industry and head of the company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), will deliver the address at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony ...
Biscotti: From Ancient Navies to Modern Treats Step into an Italian restaurant in the U.S. today, and you'll likely find "biscotti" on the menu - crunchy, log-shaped cookies typically served with a glass of sweet wine or cappuccino. But these cri...
Taking inspiration from anchovies and herrings, researchers have made a new filter that could keep microplastics from entering waterways and oceans. The filter, with a design based on the gill systems in these fish, traps a record high 99% of tiny m...
The return of gray wolves (Canis lupus) to California after nearly a century has presented new challenges for the state's ranching community. In 2011, a lone wolf named OR-7 crossed the border from Oregon, becoming the first wolf to set foot in Cal...
In early 2024, environmental anthropologist Michael Fedoroff trekked to Tuckabum Creek in York County, Alabama to help plant 300 stalks of rivercane, a bamboo plant native to North America, on an eroded, degraded strip of wetland. Despite heavy rains...