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SARLAHI, Nepal — Nepali social media influencer Ishtu Karki recently posted photos and videos enjoying a motorboat ride on the Bagmati Lake, popularly known as Bharat Taal, in Sarlahi district in the country’s southern plains. “We have such a wonderful pond here in Sarlahi … You don’t need to go to ...
A new film that can be made from widely-available food waste is as effective as conventional plastics at shielding food from moisture and oxygen, its inventors say. The novel material was made by combining cellulose from wood pulp and chitin from crustacean shells or mushrooms, and builds on the tea...
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Researchers have directly observed Floquet effects in graphene for the first time, settling a long-running scientific debate. Their ultrafast light-based technique demonstrates that graphene’s electronic properties can be tuned almost instantaneously. This paves the way for custom-engineered quantum...
We all have our morning routines. For some, it might be a nice glass of water or a cup of coffee. Others like to get their bodies moving with a bit of exercise. Others opt for prayer and meditation. No matter what kind of morning person you are, having a routine brings a bit of comfort. Pope Leo XIV...
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On the second day of his inaugural overseas trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the ancient site of the First Council of Nicaea, in Turkey, urging Christians — and all faiths — to reject the use of religion to justify violence....
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How are we already at the end of 2025, talking about New Year’s Eve? It sounds so cliché, but life really goes quickly the older you get. Some of us can’t believe it’s been more than two decades since Dick Clark stopped hosting New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Ryan Seacrest took over the reins in 2005 and ne...
Service dogs are professionals who are trained to be attentive, helpful and extremely well-behaved for their owners who rely on them for everyday living. They aren't easily distracted and have solid control over their impulses because their job performance is vital to humans who need them. No one wa...
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In 1608, a group of English Brownists and Separatists decided to leave England for the Netherlands in order to escape conflict with the Church of England. The congregation, which numbered just over 100 people, settled in Leiden, a vibrant university town between Amsterdam and Rotterdam. After spendi...
Founder s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands rise from the Indian Ocean in a patchwork of forests and rivers where macaques, gibbons and hornbills ...
Today’s IT leaders face competing mandates to do more (“make us an ‘AI-first’ enterprise—yesterday”) with less (“no new hires for at least the next six months”). VMware has become a focal point of these dueling directives. It remains central to enterprise IT, with 80% of organizations using VMware i...
COLOMBO — From time to time, curious tales of “fish rain” grab media attention: fish seemingly fall from the sky, far from any bodies of water, following heavy downpours. The most recent incident occurred in northern Sri Lanka in October, after a thunderstorm, when residents discovered snakehead fis...
Researchers studying Yellowstone’s depths discovered that small earthquakes can recharge underground microbial life. The quakes exposed new rock and fluids, creating bursts of chemical energy that microbes can use. Both the water chemistry and the microbial communities shifted dramatically in respon...
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Making sure teens have access to age-appropriate experiences online is a top priority at Meta, and understanding the age of users is an industry-wide problem and remains a concern for most Canadians. We asked Counsel Public Affairs to conduct polling on the policies Canadians would like to see imple...
The New York–based Keith Haring Foundation announced Tuesday that it has named Simon Castets as its next executive director. Castets, a French American curator who previously held prominent roles at Luma Arles and the Swiss Institute in New York, will start at the foundation on January 12. At the Ke...
From obesity in cats and dogs and osteoarthritis in pigs, to cancer in whales and high blood glucose in racoons, chronic diseases are increasingly becoming a concern across the animal world, a recent study finds. Most of these ailments can be traced back to human-driven changes, the author says. Ant...
When the Portland Art Museum presented the city’s first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mark Rothko in 2012, many local viewers were unaware that the artist grew up in Portland, where he attended the Portland Art Museum School and was awarded his first museum exhibition. With Rothko now off...
A team of neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom identified five broad phases of brain structure over the course of an average human life. These eras occur as the human brain rewires to support the different ways of thinking while we grow, mature, and eventually decline...
