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Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares his perspective on the pivotal decision to transition the organization's business model away from advertising. The transition in 2012 was a turning point for Mongabay. At the time, the advertising model was...
In 2010, heavy rainfall in Tennessee caused historic flooding that eroded farmland and deposited sandy soil, making it difficult to return to productive use. However, this decline in usefulness also presented an opportunity to restore the land to its...
Grace Richardson Makes History as First Openly Gay Miss England: 'I've Achieved My Dream' When Grace Richardson took the stage at the Miss England final in Wolverhampton, she wasn't just chasing a crown. She was closing a chapter on years of bein...
Three years ago, Celine Dion shared a very shocking and emotional post on Instagram. She told fans she had a rare neurological disorder called stiff person syndrome. The condition affected her life so greatly that she canceled the remaining dates of ...
Gabriele Münter's Love Affair with Photography, Painting, and Kandinsky The first painting in the Guggenheim's survey of German Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) extends hospitality. From the Griesbräu Window (1908) depicts a town...
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'We miss having a dog but it's the price you pay': the village that banned pets to save wildlife Bill Smart, a 77-year-old retired mechanical engineer, has never heard the term "solarpunk," but he says the definition fits his eco-community on Aus...
A brand new elephant calf made his grand entrance into the world at the Columbus Zoo on October 21. This baby elephant was a big boy, weighing in at 222 pounds at birth, and the zoo couldn't wait to show him off. They shared the first peek on October...
Passenger Handles Body-Shaming with Grace Vanessa, a TikTok user who goes by (@soberspouse), faced an uncomfortable situation on a flight from Tampa, Florida, to New York on Delta Airlines. As she sat down beside a man, she noticed he had sent a ...
Princess Kate Glitters in New Christmas Portrait with Prince William Princess Kate and Prince William shared a new holiday portrait on Instagram, and she looks positively magical. Princess Kate wore a stunning blue gown, standing alongside an equ...
Sometimes, geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet's surface. But in other places, they're obscured thousands of feet underground. Now, AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power. A startu...
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Simone Biles Considers an Olympic Return, But Not in Gymnastics Simone Biles, the most decorated Olympic gymnast of all time with 11 medals, 7 of them gold, and 23 world championship titles, has recently shared a TikTok video of herself learning ...
Around 25 million Americans have rare genetic diseases, and many struggle with a lack of effective treatments and clear diagnoses. Researchers have looked to the human genome for answers, but up to 70% of patients still lack a clear genetic explanati...
A Rare Bright Spot for Whales Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch across the Atlantic Ocean. Historically, commercial whaling targeted these animals, causing t...
Golf courses are often associated with environmental waste, not solutions. For example, the average 18-hole golf course in California guzzles up 90 million gallons of water per year - the equivalent of 136 Olympic-sized swimming pools. However, the...
Decades-old Palm Trees Bloom for the First and Only Time in Rio In Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo Park, towering talipot palm trees are flowering for the first and only time in their lives. These decades-old palms were introduced to the park by renown...
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Founded by MIT alumni, the Pickle Robot Company has developed machines that can autonomously load and unload trucks inside warehouses and logistics centers. The company's one-armed robots can pick up boxes weighing up to 50 pounds and place them ont...
Will NYC's Pension Funds Once Again Lead the Nation on Climate Change? Comptroller Brad Lander has proposed moving some of the city's enormous pension fund business from dirtier to cleaner money managers. If he gets the pension fund trustees to e...
NASA's next major observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, has now been fully assembled. On November 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the telescope at the largest clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gr...
Unlike our eyes and ears, which come in pairs, our nostrils may not seem dramatically different from each other. However, the fact that we have two nostrils, rather than one large hole, plays a vital role in our overall health and sensory experience....
The Sweetest Red-Light Moment Ever Recorded When you see someone jump out of their car at a red light, it's usually a sign of road rage. However, 26-year-old Celina Romera caught a video of a heartwarming interaction between two drivers in Tampa,...
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Fever, aching limbs and a runny nose -- as winter returns, so too does the flu. The disease is triggered by influenza viruses, which enter our body through droplets and then infect vulnerable cells. A research team from Switzerland and Japan has tak...
Astronomers Discover One of the Largest Rotating Structures in the Universe Astronomers have identified an extraordinary cosmic structure - a massive, spinning filament containing a chain of 14 galaxies located 140 million light-years from Earth....
Infamous 3I/ATLAS Comet Covered in Ice Volcanoes, Surprising Astronomers As comet 3I/ATLAS continues its journey through our solar system, scientists are still learning about this special space rock. It is only the second interstellar object ever...
Hubble Seeks Clusters in 'Lost Galaxy' The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 4535, located approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy, nicknamed the 'Lost...
Goodbye, Finger Pricks? Diabetes Patients Could Monitor Glucose with Lightwaves A new, noninvasive blood-glucose monitoring system may allow people with diabetes to finally ditch their painful finger pricks and under-the-skin sensors. Although th...
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Select walls at NASA's Johnson Space Center have been transformed into works of art. Each piece reflects creativity, collaboration, and the spirit of discovery. Painted by Texas students, the murals honor the legacy of the International Space Station...
For three decades, scientists have tracked Bonelli's eagles in southern Spain, home to much of the endangered European population of the massive bird. Despite facing numerous threats, including territorial conflicts, clashes with golden eagles, nests...
The rediscovered artwork, which depicts Jean Renoir with his nanny, Gabrielle Renard, had been held in private hands for many years By Ella Feldman - Daily Correspondent December 3, 2025 2:30 p.m. :focal(3000x2000:3001x2001)/https://tf-cm...
From Stone Breaker to Sarpanch: The Extraordinary Journey of Nauroti Devi She never saw the inside of a classroom, nor could she read or write. Yet one day, this woman would use computers and the law to fight injustice. This is the extraordinary ...
UNICEF Welcomes Amanda Gorman as New Ambassador Earlier this week, presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman was announced as UNICEF's newest ambassador. Gorman's appointment comes after years of supporting UNICEF USA, including a recent visit to...
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Since Robert Irwin and Witney Carson took home the Len Turner Mirrorball Trophy on Dancing With the Stars, the Irwins are now the winningest family in the show's history. Robert's big sister, Bindi Irwin, won the competition in 2015. That leaves one ...
Mom Says She Won't Volunteer for Holiday School Events The school calendar is packed with holiday-themed activities that both parents and teachers have to rally for, but the workload can be exhausting. One mom on TikTok, known as @heyempoweredmam...
Early Earth's Sky May Have Created the First Ingredients for Life Earth's ancient sky may have played a larger role in the beginnings of life than scientists once believed. According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ...
Ask for a restaurant recommendation in Windhoek and you'll likely be told to visit Joe's Beerhouse. Known for its whimsical decor, Joe's is iconic - in part for being the home of what is likely the world's sturdiest Mini Cooper. Comfortably parked o...
Solar Panels Boost Teacher Pay in Arkansas School District A rural school district in Batesville, Arkansas found an innovative way to increase teacher salaries - by installing solar panels. After the district installed solar panels at their schoo...
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Sixty-five years after this mid-century modern house in Los Angeles was immortalized by the photographer Julius Shulman, the structure is up for sale for the first time. Known as the Stahl House, or Case Study House 22, the 1960 home in the Hollywoo...
Each rocket launch sends valuable materials into the sky that cannot be recovered, while also releasing large amounts of greenhouse gases and chemicals that damage the ozone layer. A new paper published December 1 in the Cell Press journal Chem Circu...
Dave Coulier shocked fans in October 2024 when he announced his non-Hodgkin lymphoma cancer diagnosis. He underwent treatment and announced he was cancer-free in March 2025. During a December 2 appearance with Craig Melvin on the Today Show, Dave con...
A team of Russian daredevils has staged a full football match 1,800 meters in the sky, on a field dangling from a hot-air balloon. This stunt, conceived by Russian gymnast and extreme-sports athlete Sergey Boytsov, has now become a viral global spect...
Steady Sales and Strong Work Fuel Emerging and Mid-Tier Market Rebound at NADA and Untitled Art The November art auctions generated a robust $2.2 billion total, but the real test was Miami. NADA and Untitled Art, which opened a day before Art Bas...