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Grace Richardson, a 20-year-old performing arts student, made history as the first openly gay woman to win the Miss England title. Her victory is a testament to her resilience and self-acceptance after years of being bullied for her identity.
Three years ago, Celine Dion shared a very shocking and emotional post on Instagram. She told fans she had a rare neurological disorder called stiff person syndrome. The condition affected her life so greatly that she canceled the remaining dates of her Courage World Tour. She made her triumphant re...
The first painting in the Guggenheim’s survey of German Expressionist painter Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) extends hospitality—an apt introduction that sets the tone for the rest of the show as one of welcome. From the Griesbräu Window (1908) depicts a town in the Bavarian Alps, Murnau am Staffelsee,...
Australian eco community is a sanctuary for native animals and a showcase of sustainable living Bill Smart has never heard the word “solarpunk”. But the softly spoken 77-year-old lights up when given the definition from Wikipedia: a literary, artistic and social movement that envisions and works tow...
A brand new elephant calf made his grand entrance into the world at the Columbus Zoo on October 21. This baby elephant was a big boy, and the zoo couldn’t wait to show him off. They shared the first peek on October 23. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Columbus Zoo and Aquarium (@columbus...
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Vanessa, a TikTok user who goes by (@soberspouse), is an inspiration to many because of the way she handled an incredibly uncomfortable situation on a flight from Tampa, Florida, to New York on Delta Airlines. It all started when she sat down beside a man, who immediately rolled his eyes at her. Whe...
Glitter, glowing lights, and the smell of evergreen make this time of year feel so magical. Between holiday parties, shopping, wrapping, and binge-watching all of the Christmas movies, it’s hard to find time to even bake cookies. Of course, that’s for us regular folks. Imagine adding on the duties o...
Sometimes geothermal hot spots are obvious, marked by geysers and hot springs on the planet’s surface. But in other places, they’re obscured thousands of feet underground. Now AI could help uncover these hidden pockets of potential power. A startup company called Zanskar announced today that it’s us...
We all know Simone Biles is the GOAT. She’s the most decorated Olympic gymnast of all time, with 11 medals, including 7 golds. She has 23 world championship titles and is the only gymnast to win a world medal in every event. Simone and her husband, Chicago Bears safety Johnathan Owens, recently buil...
Around 25 million Americans have rare genetic diseases, and many of them struggle with not only a lack of effective treatments, but also a lack of good information about their disease. Clinicians may not know what causes a patient’s symptoms, know how their disease will progress, or even have a clea...
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Populations of northern bottlenose whales (Hyperoodon ampullatus), playful animals that resemble large dolphins, stretch across the Atlantic Ocean, with each group of whales living year-round in a particular deep ocean canyon. Historically, commercial whaling targeted these animals, causing their nu...
When it comes to golf courses, people are more likely to think of environmental waste — not solutions. For example, in California, the average 18-hole golf course guzzles up 90 million gallons of water per year — the equivalent of 136 Olympic-sized swimming pools. But for the past 12 years, the Wa...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s. Towards the end of its life — which can span between 40 and 80 years — the palm tree sends...
Founded by MIT alumni, the Pickle Robot Company has developed machines that can autonomously load and unload trucks inside warehouses and logistic centers. Watch Video Zach Winn | MIT News Pub...
Comptroller Brad Lander has proposed moving some of the city’s enormous pension fund business from dirtier to cleaner money managers, the authors write. If he gets the pension fund trustees to enact his late-game proposal, it’ll be a major boost in the global fight against climate change. Climate ac...
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NASA’s next big eye on the cosmos is now fully assembled. On Nov. 25, technicians joined the inner and outer portions of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope in the largest clean room at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now...
If you close one eye or put a finger to your ear, there’s an immediate sense of loss. Two eyes help us see the world while two ears enable us to locate sounds. But there’s not the same dramatic sense of loss if you block one nostril. Unlike the eyes or ears, they’re in almost the exact same position...
When you see someone jump out of their car at a red light to talk with another motorist, usually it's bad news. Most of the time, it's the moment when road rage gets personal. However, 26-year-old Celina Romera caught a video of probably one of the most adorable red-light interactions between motori...
Scientists have captured a never-before-seen, high-resolution look at influenza’s stealthy invasion of human cells, revealing that the cells aren’t just helpless victims. Using a groundbreaking imaging technique, researchers discovered that our cells actually reach out and “grab” the virus as it sea...
Astronomers have identified one of the largest rotating structures ever observed, located 140 million light-years from Earth. It is a massive, spinning cosmic filament containing an incredibly razor-thin string of 14 galaxies rich in hydrogen. The filament is about 5.5 million light-years long and 1...
