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Announcement draws anger from Labour MP over refusal to remove tonnes of rubbish dumped near school in Wigan The Environment Agency is to spend millions of pounds to clear an enormous illegal rubbish dump in Oxfordshire, saying the waste is at risk of catching fire. But the decision announced on Thu...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame”. NASA GSFC, NASA JPL Two icons of discovery, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Curiosity rover, have earned places in TIME’s “Best Inventions Hall of Fame,” which reco...
Health Break in the case for long COVID investigators Jacqueline Mitchell Beth Israel Communications December 12, 2025 3 min read Research highlighting chronic inflammation opens path to treating illness that affects millions of Americans A new study from investigators at Harvard and Beth Israel Dea...
E. Glen Weyl.Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard Staff Photographer Science & Tech Rethinking — and reframing — superintelligence Microsoft researcher says separating AI from people makes systems dangerous and unproductive Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer December 12, 2025 4 min read The debate over artifici...
Brian Tolle’s Pageant, near the foot of the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, is often characterized as a reinstatement of two sculptures by Daniel Chester French that once were located in the same vicinity. This description is true but considerably incomplete. The symbolism inherent to the three artwor...
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La primera reunión del Comité de Immigration Justice (Justicia Migratoria), uno de los 17 comités que el alcalde electo ha reunido para asesorarse durante la transición a la alcaldía, está prevista para finales de esta semana. Este comité trabajará “para desarrollar la mejor vía para defender y refo...
Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the sun on its path out of the solar system. The data were collected during a Shadow the Scientists session—a unique outreach initiative that invites students around the world to join researchers as they observe the un...
In February, President Sally Kornbluth announced the appointment of Professor Angela Koehler as faculty director of the MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS), with professors Iain Cheeseman and Katharina Ribbeck as associate directors. Since then, the leadership team has moved quick...
Blue Origin aims to fly another set of space tourists to suborbital space aboard its New Shepard rocket next week. The company s NS-37 mission is targeting a launch date of December 18. It will send six people to the edge of space and back, including the first-ever wheelchair user to fly to space, a...
Amid rounds of court hearings and the decision pending on a 2024 writ petition, Indigenous Singsa-Bhote community leaders of the Lungbasamba region in northeastern Nepal have filed another writ petition at the country’s Supreme Court. Community members from Ridak, one of the affected villages, say t...
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Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint flashes of light separated by several minutes, researchers confirmed one of the lowest-energy neutrino ...
Toward the Light: Artists for the Ali Forney Center,” an exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in New York, was only on view at the gallery for four days, but during that short time, it raised $950,000 for the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit that runs a 24-hour drop-in center for queer youth and offers...
TONO, the time-based art festival, has announced the lineup for its 2026 edition, returning March 6–22 with a slate of new and existing video installations, performance commissions, music events, and screenings across Mexico City and Puebla. Programming will span major institutions including Laborat...
For decades, the United States Postal Service has unofficially used the motto “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” Of course, in extreme weather, mail carriers have to use their best judgment to stay safe. The m...
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Once you reach a certain age, you resign yourself to the fact that young people will no longer think you're cool. And that's OK. But sometimes it's nice to remind them how awesome you are (were?) when the opportunity presents itself. And that was exactly the feat achieved by Gen Xers during a wholes...
A performance artist from Luxembourg managed to turn a few scrawled lines of washable spray chalk into a night in jail during Art Basel Miami Beach—an outcome he claims was both unexpected and meaningful. Thomas Iser was arrested last week after spray-painting the words “Sorry to disturb, art in pro...
Growing up in Charleston, West Virginia, Jennifer Garner spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her mom and sisters. Some of her favorite memories involve home-cooked meals and time sitting around the family table. Jennifer and her mom, Pat Garner, had a unique opportunity to visit and cook in the ...
Kids have been walking to school for as long as there have been schools to attend, but it's less common nowadays. It's especially uncommon to see a small child walking to school alone without older siblings or an adult. Joshua Threatt, a young father, found himself witnessing a six-year-old girl pas...
This statue starred in the opening credits of “Parks and Recreation.” The show takes place in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana, and the statue perhaps serves to represent the fictional Wamapoke Indian tribe. But the real story of the statue is far more interesting than a television brief glimps...
