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Forget clunky bike trailers. The Veolo Bike Trailer 2.0 redefines cargo hauling, offering an ultra-light, smooth-running, and well-appointed experience unlike any other.
Harvard University celebrated its 375th Commencement, awarding 10,143 degrees for the 2025-26 academic year. See the full breakdown of programs and graduates.
Sodium-ion batteries are rapidly catching lithium in consistency and fast charging. With EV and grid storage demand surging, cheaper, easier-to-source alternatives are critical.
South African radar data, bursting with color, maps crop types and their seasonal changes. See how agriculture transforms during the Southern Hemisphere's growing season.
Washington Union Station is getting a $466 million facelift! Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the massive investment to modernize the historic DC hub.
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Meet the Great Salt Lake's newest resident: a tiny worm unlocking secrets to life in extreme environments. Its origins? Still a mystery.
Fog isn't just mist! Scientists found fog droplets host living bacteria that grow, removing harmful pollutants. It's a surprisingly active microbial world.
UCSD engineers created a humidity-based image encoder straight from James Bond's Q-Lab. This postage stamp-sized chip hides messages, revealed only when humidity exceeds 60%—just breathe on it!
Your brain's sensory systems are secretly speech-learning powerhouses. Scientists just uncovered their massive, underestimated role.
Wearable electronics could soon run on sweat! Chinese researchers developed a stretchable, moisture-powered generator that withstands repeated bending, solving a key hydrogel adhesion problem.
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Sarah Kamen rescues sea turtles, but "Chlorophyllis," a loggerhead hooked at a fishing pier, was different. This late March case at Florida's Gulfarium C.A.R.E. Center was uniquely tough.
Strange sounds from a Gatlinburg, TN hotel bathroom led staff to call 911, fearing a guest was trapped. Police heard noises too, but what they found inside wasn't human.
1980s West Coast punk and skinhead scenes weren't just music; they were battlegrounds. Neo-Nazis targeted alienated youth, forcing anti-racist punks to organize grassroots defense against white supremacy.
Dutch authorities just crippled a botnet controlling 17 million devices—one of the largest cybercrime takedowns ever. The Dutch National Police and NCSC led the operation, seizing 200 servers.
Rural, low-income kids thrive on routine. Strong family habits slash behavior problems and ADHD symptoms, a new study reveals.
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Barry Manilow's bronchitis was actually stage 1 lung cancer. The diagnosis shocked him and fans alike in December 2025, right in the middle of his farewell tour and Las Vegas residency.
From a deep-sea robot's protest to AI solving an 80-year-old math problem, this week showed how science, nature, and human effort are quietly reshaping our world for the better. Plus: aged garlic.
Jelly Roll's early life was a cycle of drugs and prison, even missing his daughter Bailee's 2008 birth from a cell. Now, his Christian faith is paramount.
A Leonora Carrington painting unseen for 80+ years debuts July 1 at London's Freud Museum. "Villa Pillar" (1940) anchors "The Symptomatic Surreal," tracing her 1938-1941 development.
New Zealand's bird history is a saga of repeated arrivals, extinctions, and rapid island evolution, revealed by a newly described fossil goose.
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Forget Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Meet Miffy with a Pearl Earring! This new art history sensation reimagines the classic, complete with turban and glowing bauble.
African cities face climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality. A new book argues urban trees are no longer a luxury, but a critical solution.
Saturn's rotation mystery, solved! Webb telescope data reveals powerful atmospheric winds, not planetary speed changes, caused its apparent "wobble.
Papua New Guinea just created a marine protected area the size of the UK! On May 13, it banned all fishing and extraction in 214,000 sq km of the Bismarck Sea.
Drag queen Jessica L'Whor usually entertains adult crowds. But sometimes, she offers passersby a dollar at Denver's Union Station to "Ask A Queen Anything," sparking viral TikToks and Instagrams.
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Aged garlic extract could fight muscle decline! A compound activates anti-aging pathways linking fat, brain, and muscles, potentially preserving strength.
Uncover Hubble's universe-changing legacy. Explore its history, groundbreaking science, cultural impact, and technological benefits—from human spaceflight to AI partnerships.
Camden, NJ, a city of 72,000, achieved its first homicide-free summer in nearly 50 years in 2025. This dramatic drop from 67 homicides in 2012 to just 12 marks a stunning turnaround.
Birth and death certificates are vital, yet millions lack them. Photographer Juan Arredondo captures the global struggle for these basic records, revealing how they're created and who's left out.
Curator Beata America's 2023 research trip to Ghana led her to Zohra Opoku's Accra studio. Despite never meeting, America "fell in love with her studio practice immediately.
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From Maryland's dumping ground to a vibrant community hub: Wild Kid Acres now draws tens of thousands annually. Founder Gerardo Martinez transformed neglected land, proving farming's impact goes beyond food.
AI connects far-flung ideas, but conceptual leaps are human. Last week, OpenAI shocked mathematicians: their AI found a counterexample to a famous 1946 conjecture by Paul Erdős.
Spurs dominate OKC 118-91, forcing Game 7! Wembanyama's 28 points keep their NBA Finals hopes alive against the Knicks.
Shrey Parikh, 2026 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion, hoists his trophy with E.W. Scripps CEO Adam Symson at DAR Constitution Hall.
Just minutes of exercise weekly could dramatically boost your health. It's a bigger impact than most realize.
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Forget lazy Sundays. Join 100 ravers in Hackney Wick for an ecstatic dance craze blending spirituality, physicality, and pure fun. It's a mindful workout to sweat out your week!
Radar data from a South African farm, shown in vivid color, reveals crop types and how they changed during the Southern Hemisphere's growing season.
Spin waves can now turn sharp corners with minimal loss! This breakthrough guides them 5,000x more efficiently than conventional methods, promising a revolution in energy-efficient computing.
Explore Landsat: From its first mission to Landsat 10, discover how this satellite program provides critical open data for agriculture, disaster management, urban development, and more.
Retailers, stop violence now. The Thomas Ashton Institute's VARN helped create new, evidence-based guidance to prevent and manage work-related aggression.