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Today, we’re excited to announce SAM 3 and SAM 3D, the newest additions to our Segment Anything Collection. SAM 3 enables detection and tracking of objects in images and video using text and visual prompts, and SAM 3D enables 3D reconstruction of objects and people based on a single image. You can e...
"The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism," the first major U.S. exhibition of the artist in 40 years, is now open at the Denver Art Museum...
Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Tell us what you ve been reading at info@reasonstobecheerful.world and we just might feature it here. Tackling trash When Samuel Salamone set up his litter.per.follower social media account, he pledged to pick u...
Anonymous Was a Woman, a grant-making organization that provides funding to woman-identifying artists, has revealed 15 artists who will receive $50,000 grants this year. Those artists include Candida Alvarez, a painter who was recently the subject of an El Museo del Barrio retrospective in New York;...
Campus & Community An animal obsession, singing gadget, and secret accessory Photo illustration by Liz Zonarich/Harvard Staff November 18, 2025 2 min read Psychology professor defies the cold with cuddly, hearty, cozy things Part of the Favorite Things series Recommendations from Harvard faculty Eli...
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Drinking at least one cup of coffee per day may help protect against atrial fibrillation, a common irregular heartbeat, according to a new clinical trial. The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that people with heart rhythm disorders should avoid caffeine.
If you don’t remember Uncle Jesse singing his vows to Aunt Becky at their 1991 wedding, were you even alive? OK, maybe that’s a bit dramatic, but the Donaldson/Katsopolis wedding on Full House is one of those TV moments that millions remember. Particularly because Uncle Jesse performed Forever for t...
When Robert Therrien passed away in 2019 at 71, he left behind a series of small note cards, each bearing a labeled line drawing. To those closest to him, they felt like legends that, if decoded, might reveal something of the elusive artist’s practice. Many feature recurring forms in his work, like ...
David Diao, whose painting Bauhaus Still Looking to De Stijl (2018) appears on the cover of the Fall issue of Art in America, is profiled in the magazine. From his studio in New York, Diao told A.i.A. the backstory of the piece, shown below in full. You might say that what I do is image mongeri...
Many people have hit hard economic times in their lives, barely scraping by and making ends meet with nothing leftover once the bills were paid to buy something new. Financial struggle is tough, and unless someone has experienced it personally, they may not fully grasp how much every single cent cou...
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Catherine Contreras’s most precious childhood memories include making tamales with her family. As a self-proclaimed “autism mom” navigating the COVID-19 pandemic, she tried to bring those special moments to life with her own five children.Tamales made of Play-Dough. Photo courtesy of Fresh Masa“When...
Emotions ran high on a night of historic wins and last-gasp goals as the last eight of the 43 automatic qualification spots for the FIFA World Cup 2026 were sealed across Europe (UEFA), Central America and the Caribbean (CONCACAF).With less than seven months to go until the expanded 48-team......
Quantum-inspired compression Spanish firm Multiverse Computing has created DeepSeek R1 Slim, a version of the Chinese AI model that s 55% smaller but maintains similar performance. The technique uses tensor networks from quantum physics to represent complex data more efficiently.Chinese censorship r...
Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez announced their engagement in December 2024 with a series of photos showing off an impressive diamond ring. The couple seemed so happy to find true love and spent the next several months basking in that newly engaged glow. Benny even took Selena to take prom photos in A...
A community in Montclair, New Jersey has transformed a modest experiment among five families into a joyful ritual of hundreds of children biking to school together. This bike bus movement has spread to hundreds of similar routes across the United States and around the world.
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On one of the first chilly nights of fall, union members, Democratic Socialists, scientists, and teachers filed into the pews of a Brooklyn church for what they called the “People’s Hearing for Public Renewables.” Zohran Mamdani — fresh off winning his Democratic primary, and expected to become the ...
Robert Irwin is one special young man. Not only is he a wonderful ambassador for his home and conservation work, but he’s also one heck of a dancer. Robert gets his love of animals from his dad, the late Crocodile Hunter, Steve Irwin. Steve died in 2006, and while Robert was only a small child, his ...
One of the world’s rarest birds has rebounded from near extinction after Indigenous communities on the Indonesian island of Bali committed to protect it under traditional laws, Mongabay contributor Heather Physioc reported. The Bali starling (Leucopsar rothschildi) is a songbird with striking white plumage and a cob...
Health How habits in your 20s shape your heart for life Jacqueline Mitchell BIDMC Communications November 18, 2025 3 min read Young adulthood offers critical window to greatly reduce future risk of cardiovascular disease, according to new study Patterns of cardiovascular health during young adulthoo...
Assuming you don't get seasick, cruise ships are often the perfect family vacation. They allow you to go to multiple different locations on a tighter budget while also giving your family a resort experience with all the on ship entertainment and activities. But cruise ships are big. We're talking so...
