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Iceland is renowned for its stunning landscapes and rich history. A short drive from the famous Skógafoss waterfall is a lesser-known museum offering insights into how Icelanders lived in years gone by and how technology helped them survive in one of the world's most rugged and inhospitable landscap...
A pair of snowy owls spotted along a Lake Michigan beach has drawn curious crowds and sparked happy speculation about how long the Arctic birds of prey will call Chicago home....
Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social bonds over time. The results show a clear pattern of cautious exploration echoing similar studies in o...
AutoFlight’s new system combines a “zero-carbon water vertiport” with eVTOL aircraft to expand air mobility across large water areas. By tackling challenges like limited site options, slow infrastructure deployment, and complex take-off and landing processes, the solution makes low-altitude transpor...
Goldie Hawn is a national treasure. With more than 60 years in Hollywood, she’s done it all. Goldie’s mast has made us laugh, and she’s made us cry. While Goldie entertained us on screen, at home she raised a family. She shares Oliver Hudson and Kate Hudson with her ex-husband, Bill Hudson, and son ...
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Supernovas are the largest explosions humans have ever observed. They can occur when massive stars run out of fuel and die, shining extremely bright and sometimes leaving behind a mysterious black hole. Nowadays, scientists armed with sophisticated telescopes witness many supernovas every year, but ...
Hosting Thanksgiving is not an easy task. When the cooking giant Allrecipes asked its readers how many hours on average it takes to prepare for the holiday, they said that cooking the meal itself takes around seven hours! So, it s understandable why someone wouldn t want the burden of hosting. Howev...
There is an informal, yet sacred social contract many women follow instinctively. You won’t find a manual on it, per se, but it lives in bathrooms, parking lots, parties, doctors' offices, group chats, and chance encounters with strangers, known to women as “girl code.” This solidarity takes on many...
Dalby Forest, the North York Moors: It was a misty morning in the forest, and everything was damp – that’s when I saw one for the first time If you ask someone to draw a mushroom, chances are they will draw a red cap with white dots and a stalk, but they have probably never seen one like this outsid...
A tender and poetic moment unfolds as a butterfly flutters gracefully beside a gorilla s face, its golden hues mirroring the warmth in the animal s eyes. That s how Nature Photographer of the Year Chairman Tin Man Lee artfully described the Animal Portrait category winner (seen above). The contrast ...
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MIT has discovered a new way to penetrate the layers of time using CT scans to uncover how the earliest civilizations of the past worked with metals. Metallurgy, or the use of metals, revolutionized the world as a practice when human beings began extracting and processing metals. Gaining deeper insi...
Most people believe that both parents have an equal right to choose their baby’s name and that this decision should be reached through agreement between both parties. That doesn't mean it’s always easy for both people to agree on the same name, but look, if you’re going to be a successful parent, yo...
Leah Montayes Macias came into the world tiny but mighty. Her mother delivered her at 24 weeks gestation in May 2024, weighing just 1 lb. 3 oz. She had multiple complications from being born so early, but her parents and the medical team at Blytheville Children’s Hospital in Valhalla, New York, didn...
Indonesia’s environmental issues often feel too vast to take in at once. A nation said to have more than 17,000 islands, it contains the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and one of its busiest commodity frontiers. For many Indonesians, the story of modern development is told not in charts b...
Being a parent isn't easy, but it's infinitely harder if you didn't have a good parenting example yourself to follow. Some may have had abusive or neglectful parents, and some may have grown up in a household where one or both parents were so busy trying to make ends meet that they didn't have the o...
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Making mistakes is a big part of being human. No one is perfect, and even those with the best intentions sometimes swing and miss. Cracker Barrel CEO Julie Masino had big visions for the brand. She began store remodels and logo changes, but the people spoke up and did not like it. At first, it seeme...
Little kids are the most honest people on the planet. They tell it like it is, and sometimes their reactions are pretty darn funny. Teenagers, on the other hand, are stone-cold critics, particularly of their parents. If you want to be emotionally eviscerated, make a change to your appearance and the...
A time traveler visiting from an earlier era might reasonably conclude that humanity has entered the age of cyborgs and cybernetics. Pedestrians regularly walk down city streets with tiny computers in their hands and even smaller digital devices shoved in their ear canals. Virtual reality headsets, ...
Our elected officials have a choice: be complicit in our displacement or successfully fight for these anti-displacement measures. A South West view of the Fulton Street and Van Sinderen Avenue intersection from one of Broadway Junction s elevated platforms, pictured here in 2019. The Broadway Juncti...
Nation & World Our self-evident truths Courtesy of Tulane University Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer November 21, 2025 8 min read New book takes as focus ‘greatest sentence ever written,’ how it may help a riven nation recall common values On July 4, 1776, a band of revolutionaries that inc...
