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Cautious Win for Indigenous Groups in Malaysia Indigenous activists in central Sarawak state, Malaysian Borneo, have declared a temporary victory after palm oil firm Urun Plantations agreed to a moratorium on clearing land in a disputed area. The...
Musician Teaches Octopus to Play Piano It's hard to imagine humans having much in common with an octopus. Yet, a Swedish musician named Mattias Krantz discovered a surprising shared trait - the ability to play the piano. Krantz rescued a live oc...
Exiting Boring Conversations with Ease You're at a party and find yourself trapped in a tedious conversation. The person has been ranting about their marathon for the past 10 minutes, and you need a polite way to exit without making them feel bad...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Names New President and CEO The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, named Allison Blais as its new president and CEO starting in January 2026. Blais, who will replace Jeffrey N. Brown after five ye...
Just like your body needs a bath now and then, so too does your brain – but instead of a tub filled with hot water, your brain has cerebrospinal fluid, which flows around inside the brain and helps clear away waste products, misplaced blood cells, an...
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Subtle Signs of Intelligence Despite stereotypes, highly intelligent people come in all types. Some openly showcase their smarts, while others remain more humble. However, certain hallmarks of intelligence are noticeable in how they approach peop...
"Soulful Duets" Playlist (LISTEN) Happy Music Monday! Your musical motorist Marlon West is back with a new collection of over ten hours of duets and collaborations between artists of many styles. From the rock and soul collabs of Mary J. Blige a...
Germany Launches 'Otus' Supercomputer Paderborn University has unveiled a powerful new supercomputer called 'Otus' that will enable scientists across Germany to tackle major research challenges through high-performance computing. Installed at th...
We often hear that some people are just born different. But Mother Nature has taken this idea to a whole new level. The result is a very unlikely gene combination that results in the most unusual human body traits. Bored Panda has curated a list of...
Woman Finds Unlikely Kidney Donor In Her Husband's Ex-Wife For more than a decade, Amanda McCowan has co-parented her children with her ex-husband Joshua Maples and his current wife, Angela Maples. In 2022, Angela began experiencing health proble...
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Gerrit Dou's Rare Masterpiece Leads Christie's Old Masters Sale Leading Christie's Old Masters Evening Sale on December 2 in London is Gerrit Dou's first depiction of a musician, The Flute Player (ca. 1636). The work, one of the few produced by...
Why 'Mob Grazing' May Help Protect Drought-Hit Senegal's Vast Grasslands Ibrahima Ka, the village chief of Thignol, is spearheading the first pilot of "mob grazing" in Senegal. This approach involves tightly packing a herd of 350 zebu cows and 2,...
Record-Breaking Qubits Are Stable for 15 Times Longer Than Google and IBM's Designs One of the biggest challenges for quantum computers is the incredibly short time that qubits can retain information. However, a new qubit from Princeton Universit...
Since 1975, Stanford's Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) has supported the university's educational mission by providing practical, evidence-based resources for faculty, instructors, and students. From the very beginning, the center played an i...
Trash that would otherwise rot in landfills could be converted into 62.5 billion liters of jet fuel per year, with a carbon footprint 80-90% smaller than that of fossil-based aviation fuel, according to a new study (1). Aviation represents 2-3% of g...
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Researchers have traced long-standing myths about the rapid spread of the Black Death across Asia to a single source from the fourteenth century. For centuries, depictions of the plague racing along the Silk Route, devastating cities and towns in it...
Keisha Gerber lives with her five children in Blackford County, Indiana. For 12 years, Keisha's next-door neighbor, Nina Osgood, has been a godsend for the busy mother. The children adore Nina, and they all care for each other like family. "She's am...
In October 2025, a 16-year-old student named Jared Lepora presented a robotic hand made entirely from LEGOs at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China. Jared co-authored research on the project that ...
Sarah Hoover's Memoir 'The Motherlode' Is Being Turned Into a Television Series Sarah Hoover's bestselling memoir The Motherload: Episodes From the Brink of Motherhood is in development as a drama series at 20th Television, sources tell Variety...
Hundreds of communities in Sierra Leone's Bonthe district have signed a benefit-sharing carbon agreement with the Africa Conservation Initiative (ACI) to protect mangroves in the Sherbro River Estuary. The agreement is based on "carbon justice princi...
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Running on Little Sleep? You're Twice as Likely to Get Hurt If you're one of the 620 million people who regularly go for a run, you probably like to get an early start. But if you haven't slept well the night before, you could be putting yourself...
Poo Bear's Live Songwriting Battle with AI: 'We're Always Going to Need Humans' At TEDNext in Atlanta, producer Poo Bear, known for hits like Justin Bieber's "Yummy," engaged in a live songwriting battle with an AI platform called Suno. The goal ...
Researchers at Osaka Metropolitan University have developed a promising new method to repair spinal fractures using stem cells extracted from adipose tissue, or body fat. In animal studies, the treatment successfully healed spinal injuries in rats th...
In Goats We Trust When Mount Etna in Sicily rumbled this spring, news outlets around the world flashed dramatic photos of lava and ash. But Martin Wikelski was skeptical. The biologist, who directs the Department of Migration at the Max Planck In...
Dogs Rescued from 'Squalid' House are Being Retrained as Police Sniffer K-9s Four springer spaniel dogs rescued from a 'squalid' and derelict house in South Yorkshire, England are being given a new purpose - they are being trained as police K-9s....
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Priceless Compassion Over Jade Loss In an expensive accident in Suzhou, China, a young store clerk accidentally dropped a box of jade bracelets while hastily moving a table. The act shattered thirty of the store's fifty jade bangles, all of which...
Prince George, the firstborn son of Prince William, the future king of England, is second in line for succession to the throne. He takes his royal heritage seriously and recently accompanied his mother, Kate Middleton, to the Royal British Legion Fes...
The Pacific Won a Landmark Climate Case at the World's Top Court. Now They Want Countries to Act. In January 2004, Cyclone Heta pummeled the shores of the island nation of Niue, uprooting trees and flooding homes with 184 mile-per-hour winds and ...
Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve Is Moving West In 1972, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve premiered. For more than 50 years, fans have tuned in to watch some of their favorite artists perform in anticipation of the ball drop at midnight. Di...
The first thing to understand about eating spicy food is that it really isn't a matter of taste. Capsaicin, the active chemical in capsicum plants that are a key ingredient in anything you'd think of as "spicy", evolved as an irritant to stop mammals...
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At CART High near Fresno, the traditional high school experience is nowhere to be found. Instead of bells, fights, and chaotic hallways, students carry laptops through bright, spacious corridors on their way to classes in biotechnology, forensics, an...
"Dance Jazz" (LISTEN) Happy Music Monday, everyone! It's your friend and selector, Marlon West, back again with a new collection of tasty jazz tracks to enjoy today and all week long. Not long ago, I was chatting with a pal who doesn't like jazz...
Native American Heritage Month and How to Be an Ally This Thanksgiving Native American Heritage Month begins in November, a month when many Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. While this cultural month has excellent intentions, it is significantly ...
Government Sets Out Plan to Phase Out Animal Experiments The UK government has detailed its plans to fulfill its manifesto pledge to work towards phasing out animal testing. The new proposals include: Replacing Animal Testing by 2025 - By t...
Building a Talking Robot Head Polish maker Nikodem Bartnik has created a robot head that can engage in lifelike conversations, answering questions like an ancient Greek philosopher. Lifelike Eyes and Custom Mask The robot's moving eyes were...
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Zinc-infused Gel Could Aid Soldier Recovery from Blast Injuries For soldiers caught in explosions, survival often comes at a steep physical cost. Blast injuries can tear through muscle and bone, leaving survivors with severe tissue loss and long,...
No one knows the answer, and that's the point A few weeks after their arrival at the College, 15 first-year students settled into chairs for an unusual class — one with no answers. The brainchild of Dean of Science Jeff Lichtman, "Genuinely Hard...
World's First Transatlantic Robotic Stroke Surgery Performed A robot has collapsed the Atlantic Ocean into a blink, bringing remote stroke treatment closer to reality than ever before. Hours after Professor Iris Grunwald of Dundee performed the w...
Neuroscientists from Columbia University and McGill University have identified a brain chemical that appears to drive depression and suicidal thinking in individuals who faced trauma or hardship during childhood. The researchers found that high leve...
Pop Artist Ed Ruscha Collaborating with andSons on $295 Holiday Chocolate Bar Ed Ruscha, the renowned pop artist, has teamed up with the Los Angeles-based boutique chocolatiers andSons to create a unique holiday chocolate bar. At first, this coll...