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A new study suggests college students are getting better at asking for help when it comes to their mental health and well-being. For the third year in a row, the Healthy Minds Study—an annual nationwide effort co-led by a Boston University researcher—indicates that the mental health of college stude...
When it comes to mating, female mosquitoes call the shots, researchers report. A female mosquito only gets one shot to get reproduction right: She mates just a single time in her entire life. With the stakes so high, it would make sense for these insects to be quite choosey when it comes to selectin...
Scientists are uncovering how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy act on brain regions that control hunger, nausea, pleasure-based eating, and thirst. These discoveries may help create treatments that keep the benefits of weight loss while reducing unwanted side effects....
Nation & World Steven Pinker wants to hear your ideas – even the bad ones Steven Pinker.Photos by Michael DeStefano Christina Pazzanese Harvard Staff Writer November 18, 2025 4 min read Psychologist takes issue with cancel culture in ‘common knowledge’ conversation at the IOP Steven Pinker, Johnston...
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Gustav Klimt’s Blumenwiese (Blooming Meadow)—a jewel-like 1908 landscape painted during one of the artist’s summer retreats to Austria s Lake Attersee—sold for $86 million (inclusive of fees) tonight at Sotheby’s, landing a few million above its estimate of north of $80 million. The painting was off...
New research suggests the Band of Holes functioned as a barter marketplace before becoming an accounting system for the Inca...
There are so many conflicting ideas about building self-confidence in children. Is there a right way? Could praise be harmful? Should everyone receive a gold star? As with many things in life, sometimes the best solution is the simplest one—hiding in plain sight, or just out of it. Namwila Mulwanda ...
Nestled amid the verdant hills of Nantou County, Taiwan, the Songboling Visitor Center serves as a serene sanctuary for tea culture and wellness. As part of Taiwan’s commitment to preserving and celebrating its rich tea heritage, this center offers a distinctive "Tea Spa" experience, an immersive jo...
Kids will find any reason to bully one another on the playground. One of the easiest ways for kids to insult each other is by making fun of their names. That’s why parents have to be very careful when choosing their child’s name, because it could become a form of torture when they get to school age....
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The crow-sized, slate-blue-backed peregrine falcon, with its bright yellow feet, soars across the skies from Greenland’s Arctic tundra to the steppe plains of Patagonia in South America. Falco peregrinus is one of the most widespread birds on the planet, with 19 subspecies that call coasts, mountain...
California has rejoined the 20-year legal battle over a Camille Pissarro painting that was sold under duress during the Nazi regime. This week, California Attorney General Rob Bonta vowed once more to return the work, which has continually been the subject of legal actions in the US, where a struggl...
Patricia Wright, a pioneering primatologist who established the Centre ValBio research station in Madagascar, began her work there in 1986. As the person who first described the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) to Western science, her contributions led to the creation of Ranomafana National Pa...
We might not talk about public toilets enough. Most of us need them now and again, and sometimes finding one that's suitable can be a challenge—if one can be found at all. There have been jokes for decades about stumbling into the "right" coffee shop and learning their bathroom code. But for a lot o...
What if one of the most commanding performance art events of the 21st century had never happened? What if a naysaying curator had quashed a performance that drew some 1,500 people, some of whom spent hours with the piece? These are the questions raised by an interview with performance art legend Mar...
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Generative interfaces: Gemini 3 ditches plain-text defaults, instead choosing optimal formats autonomously—spinning up website-like interfaces, sketching diagrams, or generating animations based on what it deems most effective for each prompt.Gemini Agent: An experimental feature now handles complex...
Anchorage-dependent cells are cells that require physical attachment to a solid surface, such as a culture dish, to survive, grow, and reproduce. In the biomedical industry, and others, having the ability to culture these cells is crucial, but current techniques used to separate cells from surfaces ...
The Ryder Cup is an almost-century-old tournament pitting Europe against the United States in an elite showcase of golf skill and strategy. At the 2025 event, nearly a quarter of a million spectators gathered to watch three days of fierce competition on the fairways. From a technology and logistics ...
The term is used to describe "a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know," according to the dictionary...
A good song can easily get a listener nodding their head or tapping their foot along to the beat. While you may not initially realize you’re doing it, those physical responses to music are still conscious decisions that you can stop whenever you want. According to neuroscientists, however, music als...
