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In a somewhat unusual move, artist Sung Tieu has agreed to sell the 2025 work Declaration of Donation for €25,000 with proceeds from the sale going to the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin to cover a five-year term for a new board member, curator Mi You, who was nominated by Tieu. Created f...
Getty Images for Unsplash+ Persistent hormone disruption during pregnancy trimesters appears to increase the likelihood of autism in children, shows a new large cohort study. Women who experience continuing thyroid hormone irregularities throughout pregnancy may face a higher chance of having a chil...
MIT engineers have pushed biohybrid robotics into a new era with lab-grown muscles that don’t just twitch robotic parts but amplify them with serious power. In a breakthrough that reimagines how living tissue can drive machines, researchers at MIT have developed artificial tendons made from tough, f...
There is black, and then there is ultrablack. The shade defined as a black that reflects less than 0.5 percent of the light that hits it, is used on everything from telescopes to cameras. This uniquely dark color is not easy to produce and may appear less black when it is viewed at an angle. To find...
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After centuries at the bottom of the English Channel, remnants from one of England’s oldest surviving shipwrecks are finally back on shore. Yet the reason it took maritime archaeologists this long to retrieve items from the 13th century Mortar Wreck was not because of its depth or the ravages of tim...
Writing a letter is truly a lost art form, and many young people will never know the joy of it. You had to choose your words carefully and say everything you wanted to say. Once you sent it off, there was no way to be sure it was delivered. No way to know if it had been opened or read. You couldn't ...
A large study of brain scans shows that our neural wiring evolves through five major stages from birth to late old age. These phases are separated by sudden turning points that mark big shifts in how the brain is organized. The most surprising discovery is that adolescent-style development lasts int...
High Art, a taste-making Paris gallery that brought artists ranging from Lucy Bull to Julien Creuzet into the eye of the broader art world, will close its physical space after 12 years in operation. Its last exhibition closed in July. Entering a new chapter, we will reform and transition toward coll...
Huellelhue means “place for swimming” in Mapudungun. It’s also the name of one of the rivers that flow through the Lafken Mapu Lahual Multiple-Use Conservation Area, established in 2005 in southern Chile’s Los Lagos region. The name of this area is more than just a grouping of words, says Eduardo Va...
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Nestled in a churchyard in the small Pennsylvanian town of Mohnton, a peculiar gravestone stands out among the sturdy and square monuments of modern times. The black slate stone is an uncanny homage to the early grave markers of Puritan New England. It even includes a death's head motif, but with a ...
Back in April, scientists read the tea leaves — or, more accurately, heaps of data — and predicted an above-average hurricane season over the summer and autumn, with nine or 10 named storms, four of which could grow to major strength. Yet hurricane season ended Sunday without even one of them making...
The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian scientists thought...
Wat Maniwong (also romanised as Wat Maneewong) is located in Nakhon Nayok, around two hours’ drive from Bangkok. Alongside its gigantic Buddhist statues and intricate buildings lies its highlight, the "world nāga". The serpents, known in Thai as nāk or phayā nāk (from Indian 'nāga'), are believed to...
From the beginning of life on Earth, microbes, small but influential single-celled organisms, have shaped the environment that animals must adapt to in order to survive. Distinct microbial populations, known as microbiomes, inhabit nearly every surface on Earth. Now scientists have found that octopu...
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Michael Werner, the founder of his eponymous gallery, and Gordon VeneKlasen, a longtime partner of that gallery, will dissolve their partnership at the beginning of next year. “After 35 years of collaboration, Michael Werner and Gordon VeneKlasen announce their separation as partners in Michael Wern...
We have some exciting news: Nominations are now open for MIT Technology Review’s 2026 Innovators Under 35 competition. This annual list recognizes 35 of the world’s best young scientists and inventors, and our newsroom has produced it for more than two decades. It’s free to nominate yourself or some...
Founder s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Paul Barnes, who leads the Zoological Society of London’s EDGE of Existence program, has spent the past few years listening to the frustrations of early-career conserva...
For more than 25 years, Mark Elder has helped make human spaceflight safe and possible. As the International Space Station EVA hardware manager in the Extravehicular Activity (EVA) Office within the EVA and Human Surface Mobility Program, he leads the team responsible for the spacesuits, tools, and ...
Experts say it's not rude to ask if someone is feeling unwell before a holiday gathering, as mild symptoms can be serious for vulnerable individuals. Normalizing this conversation helps protect those at higher risk of severe illness from respiratory viruses like the flu, RSV, and common colds.
