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David Diao Details His Painting on the Cover of Art in America David Diao, whose painting Bauhaus Still Looking to De Stijl (2018) appears on the cover of the Fall issue of Art in America, is profiled in the magazine. From his studio in New Y...
Boss Helps Struggling Employee Many people have hit hard economic times, barely scraping by and making ends meet with nothing leftover once the bills were paid to buy something new. Financial struggle is tough, and unless someone has experienced ...
This Latina Mom Invented a New Way for Her Autistic Child to Make Tamales, Inspiring a Full-Blown Business Catherine Contreras's most precious childhood memories include making tamales with her family. As a self-proclaimed "autism mom" navigating...
Who's in, who's out: Which teams have qualified for the FIFA World Cup? Emotions ran high on a night of historic wins and last-gasp goals as the last eight of the 43 automatic qualification spots for the FIFA World Cup 2026 were sealed across Eur...
Quantum Physicists Shrink and "De-Censor" DeepSeek R1 A group of quantum physicists at the Spanish firm Multiverse Computing claim to have created a version of the powerful reasoning AI model DeepSeek R1 that strips out the censorship built into ...
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Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez's Intimate Wedding Celebration In December 2024, music producer Benny Blanco and singer Selena Gomez announced their engagement, delighting fans with a series of photos showcasing Selena's impressive diamond ring. Th...
How a Small Idea on Two Wheels Grew into a Community Kids Can't Wait to Join By the time the first bell rings on Fridays in Montclair, New Jersey, something remarkable has already unfolded across town. Children burst out of their houses balancing...
Can Mamdani Supercharge New York's Clean Energy Revolution? On a chilly September night in Brooklyn, a diverse crowd gathered in a church for the "People's Hearing for Public Renewables." Though Zohran Mamdani, the expected next mayor of New York...
Robert Irwin's Heartwarming Tradition Before Every DWTS Episode Robert Irwin is a wonderful ambassador for conservation and a talented dancer on Dancing With The Stars. He carries on his late father Steve Irwin's legacy in a very special way befo...
One of the world's rarest birds, the Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi), has rebounded from near extinction after Indigenous communities on the Indonesian island of Bali committed to protect it under traditional laws. In 2001, just six Bali st...
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Young adulthood offers a critical window to greatly reduce future risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a new study led in part by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The study, published in JAMA Network Op...
A Viral Karaoke Star on the High Seas Cruise ships are often the perfect family vacation, allowing you to visit multiple destinations on a tighter budget while enjoying resort-style entertainment and activities. However, the sheer size of these v...
There's Good News About College Student Mental Health A new study suggests college students are getting better at asking for help when it comes to their mental health and well-being. For the third year in a row, the Healthy Minds Study—an annual ...
When it comes to mating, female mosquitoes call the shots, researchers report. A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life. With the stakes so high, it would make sense for these ins...
New studies are revealing how medications that act on the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) system influence brain networks tied to nausea, thirst, and reward-driven behaviors. GLP-1 drugs include commonly used treatments such as semaglutide (Ozempic, ...
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Psychologist Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, explained the concept of "common knowledge" in a conversation with the Kennedy School's Jennifer Lerner at the IOP Forum. Pinker defined common knowledge as "I know something. Yo...
COP15 Accord is Crucial Step to Stem Biodiversity Loss Against a backdrop of a global biodiversity crisis, delegates from more than 190 countries today agreed on a new set of goals to guide global action through 2030 to halt and reverse the loss ...
Klimt's Blumenwiese Sells for $86 Million at Sotheby's Lauder Sale Gustav Klimt's 1908 landscape painting "Blumenwiese" (Blooming Meadow) sold for $86 million (inclusive of fees) at Sotheby's, marking the second-highest price ever paid for a Klim...
New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca :focal(800x602:801x603)/https://tf-cmsv2-smithsonianmag-media.s3.amazonaws.com/filer_public/1e/f8/1ef81ff2-a918-4e11-829...
Science Confirms Viral 'Secret' Praise Parenting Technique is Genius There are many conflicting ideas about building self-confidence in children. Is there a right way? Could praise be harmful? Should everyone receive a gold star? Sometimes the be...
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Nestled amid the verdant hills of Nantou County, Taiwan, the Songboling Visitor Center serves as a serene sanctuary for tea culture and wellness. As part of Taiwan's commitment to preserving and celebrating its rich tea heritage, this center offers a...
Tennessee Mom Praised for Allowing Bullied Daughter to Change "Offensive" Name Kids can be cruel, often bullying one another over something as simple as a name. When Danielle Remp's daughter Dixie faced constant ridicule and harassment at school ...
The peregrine falcon, with its striking slate-blue back and bright yellow feet, is one of the most widespread birds on the planet. These impressive raptors are renowned for their hunting prowess, capable of diving at lightning-fast speeds of over 200...
California Attorney General Argues for Return of Nazi-Looted Painting Held by Madrid Museum California has rejoined a 20-year legal battle over a Camille Pissarro painting that was sold under duress during the Nazi regime. This week, California A...
Patricia Wright, a pioneering primatologist, established the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar and began her work there in 1986. As the person who first described the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) to Western science, her contrib...
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Architects Design Beautiful Public Toilets in Japan In a recent project, 16 renowned architects came together to redesign public restrooms in the dense Shibuya area of Tokyo, Japan. The "Tokyo Toilet" initiative aims to create accessible and visu...
Marina Abramovic's Iconic "The Artist Is Present" Performance In 2010, legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic was invited by curator Klaus Biesenbach to present a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Biesenbac...
Google's New Gemini 3 Offers Versatile "Vibe-Coding" Responses Google has unveiled a major upgrade to its flagship multimodal model, Gemini 3. The new model boasts improved reasoning capabilities, more fluid multimodal functionality across voice,...
Anchorage-dependent cells require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to survive, grow, and reproduce. In the biomedical industry and others, culturing these cells is crucial, but current techniques used to separate them f...
From the Ryder Cup to self-driving cars, AI-ready networking is becoming a critical component of success across industries. As businesses move toward distributed, real-time AI applications, tomorrow's networks will need to parse even more massive vol...
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Feel a Connection to a Celebrity You've Never Met? Your Bond May Be 'Parasocial,' Which Is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025 The term is used to describe "a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person t...
Humans Sync Their Blinks and Brain Waves to a Song's Beat While you may not realize it, your physical responses to music, like nodding your head or tapping your foot, are conscious decisions that you can control. However, according to neuroscient...
Sotheby's Hospices de Beaune Charity Wine Sale Nets $21.4 M. in France The annual Hospices de Beaune charity wine auction in Burgundy, France, organized by Sotheby's, made €18.75 million ($21.5 million) on Sunday. It was the third highest total a...
Meet the Superheroes Serving Silicon Valley's Unhoused In the heart of Silicon Valley's glamorous tech paradise, modern-day superheroes known as Batman of San Jose and Crimson Fist are stepping up where many fear to tread. These anonymous heroes ...
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The Thumbs Up Debate: When Generations Collide Gen Zers have been campaigning against the ubiquitous thumbs up emoji for years, viewing it as a passive-aggressive, low-effort response. Recently, one Gen Z LinkedIn user, Yanni Pappas, proudly decl...
Conservationists have discovered a previously unknown species of snake, slithering around one of Earth's most unique environments. In naming their new reptile, researchers decided to honor one of popular culture's most unique and beloved wildlife edu...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, claiming over 1.2 million lives every year. However, in clinics like the Boniaba Community Health Center in Mali, the process of diagnosing TB has been transformed thanks to the inte...
From Waffle Gardens to Terraces: Indigenous Groups Revive Farming Heritage in America's Deserts In 1985, with two young daughters and little money, Roxanne Swentzell, a Native American sculptor and ceramic artist, returned from her studies in Por...
Though soy sauce is ubiquitous today, it was not always a feature of American palates. By some accounts, the very first person to begin processing Midwestern soy crops into the delicious fermented condiment at an industrial scale started it all in a ...