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Preschoolers Rewilding for Health In Finland, young children are trading plastic playgrounds for mud, wild plants, and moss, leading to noticeable improvements in their health. This bold experiment shows that by "making food" with sand and soil, ...
Graphene's Hidden Quantum Power Graphene is a remarkable form of carbon, built from a single layer of tightly connected atoms that is only one atom thick. Despite its thinness, it is highly stable and conducts electricity extremely well. Because ...
Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has a rather unexpected morning routine. In a video conference with a group of youth at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis, the pontiff revealed that he starts each day by playing Wordle - bu...
Our Readers' Tales of Kindness The smallest gesture can be imbued with kindness. In Puno, Peru, Maria adjusts her friend Rosa's hat, which nearly flew off while she was busy weaving a sweater. Rosa responded: "Thank you for catching it before the...
IZNIK, Turkey — On the second day of his inaugural foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the site where early Christian leaders met 1,700 years ago for the First Council of Nicaea — the gathering that produced the creed still spoken in churches today. ...
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The Woman on a Mission to Make the World More Bike-Friendly Canadian native Melissa Bruntlett fell in love with the cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands after visiting in 2016. She and her husband had gone there to write a series of articles...
NFL Legend to Co-Host New Year's Rockin' Eve Alongside Ryan Seacrest It's hard to believe another year has flown by, but the countdown to New Year's Eve 2025 is already underway. The iconic "New Year's Rockin' Eve" celebration will once again be ...
Service dogs are highly trained professionals who assist their owners with everyday tasks. Though disciplined, they are still dogs at heart, as this heartwarming reunion on a Disney cruise ship demonstrates. Ashton McGrady's Golden Retriever service...
In 1608, a group of English Brownists and Separatists decided to leave England for the Netherlands in order to escape conflict with the Church of England. The congregation, which numbered just over 100 people, settled in Leiden, a vibrant university ...
How religious beliefs may help protect Mentawai's forests Off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands rise from the Indian Ocean in a patchwork of forests and rivers where macaques, gibbons and hornbills thrive. Among the In...
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Today's IT leaders face competing mandates - to do more ("make us an 'AI-first' enterprise—yesterday") with less ("no new hires for at least the next six months"). VMware has become a focal point of these dueling directives. It remains central to e...
Behind Sri Lanka's 'Fish Rain' Lies a Web of Migrations Now Blocked by Rising Dams From time to time, curious tales of "fish rain" grab media attention: fish seemingly fall from the sky, far from any bodies of water, following heavy downpours. Th...
Eric Boyd and his research team investigated how a burst of small earthquakes in 2021 affected the communities of microbes living deep beneath the Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field. These microbes inhabit rock and water systems far below the surface...
Canadian Parents Support App Store Age Verification for Teens Ensuring teens have access to age-appropriate online experiences is a top priority at Meta. Understanding user age is an industry-wide challenge that remains a concern for most Canadia...
Keith Haring Foundation Names Simon Castets as Next Executive Director The New York-based Keith Haring Foundation has announced that Simon Castets, a French American curator, will be its next executive director. Castets, who previously held promi...
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Chronic Diseases Prevalent Across Animals, But Understudied A recent study has found that chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a concern across the animal world, from obesity in cats and dogs to cancer in whales. These ailments can often be...
An Expansion and Renovation Brings New Life to the Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum has undergone a significant $116 million expansion and renovation project, integrating two neighboring buildings and adding almost 100,000 square feet ...
A team of neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom identified five broad phases of brain structure over the course of an average human life. These eras occur as the human brain rewires to support the different ways of thin...
Chanel and Power Station of Art Open Mainland China's First Public Library Dedicated to Contemporary Art Chanel has announced the public opening of Espace Gabrielle Chanel, mainland China's first public library dedicated to contemporary art, at S...
Bridging Urban-Rural Divides Thomas Schnaubelt, once a rural tree farm kid, noticed a disconnect at Stanford University between students of urban and rural backgrounds. He turned this realization into action by leading efforts to bridge this gap,...
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Couple Reenacts Life in 1820s Missouri Two centuries ago, life looked vastly different than it does today. Newlyweds Ron and Justine Rayfield have dedicated themselves to preserving that history, reenacting everyday life in 1820s Missouri across ...
Macaulay Culkin's Hilarious Legal Name Change This year marks the 35th anniversary of the classic film Home Alone, and its star Macaulay Culkin is now 45 years old. During a recent "Nostalgic Night with Macaulay Culkin" event in Long Beach, Calif...
'It fully changed my life!' How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement At Maple Farm in rural Surrey, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. This remarkable recovery is all thank...
Preparing your home for Thanksgiving often means juggling recipes, guest lists, and seasonal décor. But according to interior designer Lauren Saab, founder of Saab Studios in Dallas, one of the most powerful ways to create a warm, welcoming atmospher...
Danny DeVito is a comedy legend. Whether you loved him as Louie De Palma on Taxi or as Harry Wormwood in Matilda, he's one funny man. Danny's always played up his shorter stature and never shies away from physical comedy. He has played Frank Reynolds...
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Robert Irwin Nails the "Bird Theory" Trend Robert Irwin, the younger sibling of Bindi Irwin, is known for his kind heart and impressive dancing skills on "Dancing with the Stars." When DWTS pro Ezra Sosa tried the viral "bird theory" experiment o...
For the first time in at least a quarter century, puffins have appeared on the Isle of Muck in County Antrim, Scotland. This triumphant return is a milestone conservationists are calling a powerful sign of recovery. The tiny island, managed by Ulster...
Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses will be available in India starting December 1, introducing a new category of performance-focused AI eyewear created for athletes, sports enthusiasts, and everyday champions. The collection will be available for pre-sale o...
Space weather is an important part of the Sun's interaction with the space around it. Scientists called heliophysicists study these phenomena to help us better understand how and why it happens, and the effects it can have on the rest of our solar sy...
It started as a lighthearted moment. Eric Justice Guzman was feeling conflicted as his son Colby's 15th birthday approached. He was proud watching Colby enter his teen years, but also realized there was an expiration date for being able to pick him u...
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10-year-old Girl Brings Police to Tears with 2 Words In 2015, 10-year-old Savannah Solis from Tyler, Texas was deeply moved by the tragic news of two police officers being murdered in New York. As a young girl, she felt powerless to stop the viol...
Surveyed for the first time since its discovery two decades ago, the settlement "breaks from all the things that we thought we knew about Central Asia up to this point," a study author says By Mary Randolph - Staff Contributor November 24, 2025...
Why Don't All Volcanoes Erupt Explosively? New research has provided a new explanation for why some volcanoes don't explode despite having highly explosive magma with high gas content. The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many...
Vegan Diet Beats Mediterranean for Weight Loss A new analysis from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, published in Frontiers in Nutrition, reports that people who follow a vegan diet tend to eat more plant-based foods, even thos...
New AI App Helps Visually Impaired Users Find Everyday Objects Researchers at Penn State have developed a new navigation tool called NaviSense that could reshape digital assistance for people with visual impairments. The smartphone-based system u...
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New York City Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Names Arts and Culture Transition Committee New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, who decisively beat independent candidate Andrew Cuomo in the election earlier this month, has named a 28-member arts a...
Rethinking the 'Boys' Crisis' The real issue is not that boys are inherently in crisis, but rather that there are too few systems and spaces intentionally created for them to engage, learn, and grow. The crisis is not with boys themselves, but wi...
A Drawing Said to Be by Michelangelo Will Go to Auction A five-inch-tall red chalk drawing of a foot, said to be by Michelangelo (1475–1564), will be offered for sale at Christie's auction house in New York in February. Christie's estimates the w...
There's Mostly No Benefit from Grouping English Learners Together Two recent studies have found that, in most cases, there are no benefits and some disadvantages to grouping English learners together in schools. For years, K-12 schools have grou...
Cafe Serves 1,000 Free Holiday Meals for Ninth Thanksgiving On November 22, the Saturday before Thanksgiving, Nashville bakery owner Kathy Leslie was cooking up hot holiday meals for over 700 families. This is a tradition that Leslie's Shugga Hi ...