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Twycross Zoo Holiday Lantern display – SWNS A stunning display illuminated by more than 2,000 lanterns spread over a mile is being called Britain’s largest Holiday lights display. Thousands of visitors have been flocking to Twycross Zoo, in Warwickshire, England, to see their dazzling spectacle call...
Martin Parr, a photographer known for pictures of tourists that were both genuinely curious explorations of their lifestyle and wry indictments of it, has died on December 6 at his home in Bristol, England. His death was announced on Sunday by the namesake foundation that he founded in Bristol in 20...
COMPUTING After Neuralink, Max Hodak Is Building Something Even WilderConnie Loizos | TechCrunch What makes this conversation remarkable is how concrete everything sounds. Hodak isn’t hand-waving about someday. He’s got timelines, patient numbers, and regulatory pathways. By 2035, [biohybrid neural ...
Founder s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Patricia Wright arrived in Madagascar nearly four decades ago to look for a lemur thought to be extinct. She found it, along with a new species, and then ran headlong i...
For the first time, researchers have observed live and in high resolution how influenza viruses infect living cells. Fever, aching limbs, and a runny nose—as winter returns, so too does the flu. The disease is triggered by influenza viruses, which enter our body through droplets and then infect cell...
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One of the most beloved Christmas movies is National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, starring actor Chevy Chase as the iconic Clark Griswold. With too many quotable lines and laughs, it's a movie that's played on repeat this time of year. A new 2025 poll by PixelParade of 2,000 Americans found that Na...
In 1983, the world met the Griswold family, and we’ve never been the same. Chevy Chase played Clark W. Griswold in the National Lampoon’s Vacation franchise. Beverly D’Angelo played his wife, Ellen Griswold. Together, the pair starred in Vacation, European Vacation, Christmas Vacation, and Vegas Vac...
About Billing itself as "the world's first and only museum dedicated to the wonder that is vinegar," the International Vinegar Museum first opened its doors in 1999 as a way to bring tourism to the tiny town of Roslyn, South Dakota. Located in the town's former auditorium,...
Poets and philosophers have been using metaphors and analogies to try to define love for millennia, so it seems like we would have heard them all by now. But Penn Badgley, whose role as serial killer Joe in the TV series You couldn't be further from his real-life persona, has shared a metaphor for r...
New research reveals that when a treatment is given may play a key role in how well brain cancer patients respond to their chemotherapy. Recently published in the Journal of Neuro-Oncology, the study centers around glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive and treatment-resistant brain cancer that affects o...
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In Rajasthan’s Sirohi district, mornings begin early. By the time the sun stretches across the rocky fields, women have already finished milking, tied up their cattle, and begun walking towards the nearest collection point with steel cans balanced on their hips. Among them is Gokri Devi, a resident ...
ALT HL: When mail addresses are too hard to read, they get sent to this strange and fascinating facility ALT HL: The crack team of 800 specialists that works around the clock to decipher sloppy handwriting on US mail Our handwriting is getting worse. More and more of our writing and communications a...
Some people are just born lucky. It seems like no matter where they go or what they do, good fortune seems to find them. A Rochelle, IL, man found himself in a very lucky spot not too long ago. But according to him, the luck came from an unexpected encounter with his grandmother. The unidentified ma...
The legendary Dick Van Dyke isn’t the only comedian in the family. His brother, the late Jerry Van Dyke also made millions laugh. He’s probably best known for his role as Luther Van Dam, the lovable assistant coach on the 1990s sitcom Coach, starring Craig T. Nelson. Jerry died in 2018 from congesti...
We all know teachers have one of the hardest jobs in America: Educating our country's children while often working without enough resources, institutional support, or even a livable salary. But a story from 2018, showcases one of the most egregious examples of unfair pay in the public school system....
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Meet the German hairy snail (Pseudotrichia rubiginosa): a tiny mollusk with a hairy shell that lives along the River Thames in England, among other places. Researchers believe that its signature hairs help the strange creature live in its damp, riverside environments by enabling it to sweat off mois...
Some outsider artists (untrained artists sometimes known as folk or visionary artists) create in obscurity, only to have their work discovered late in life or following their death. This however was not true of Gregory Warmack (1948-2012), who called himself Mr. Imagination. Gallerist Jeanine Taylor...
Researchers from the University of Vienna have observed what happens when ultra-thin materials melt in unprecedented detail. Their findings not only contradict existing beliefs about the process but could also help advance our understanding of phase transitions in materials. In everyday materials (l...
Scientists have discovered that complex life began evolving much earlier than traditional models suggested. Using an expanded molecular clock approach, the team showed that crucial cellular features emerged in ancient anoxic oceans long before oxygen became a major part of Earth’s atmosphere. Their ...
A jaguar that snuck up on a photographer trying to spot an armadillo, a polar bear sitting on a sperm whale, and more take center stage in this year’s Pictures of the Year from National Geographic. “Pictures of the Year is a project that is always inspiring and thought-provoking,” said Nathan Lump, ...
