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Joey Lawrence and his wife, Samantha Cope, graced the red carpet for the 20th anniversary of Dancing with the Stars. Joey appeared on the show in 2006 and seemed thrilled to be part of the big night. He stopped by to talk with Entertainment Tonight and dropped a huge surprise. Samantha filed for div...
Olympic gold medalist and Chicago Bears safety Johnathan Owens married in 2023. The pair decided that Texas was the place to be. The pair built a custom home in Houston, and it’s an absolute stunner. Simone shared a few sneak peeks of the house in her Instagram stories on November 12. The pair chose...
Javier Téllez. Photo Till Schneider The Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has awarded its annual Pérez Prize to New York–based artist Javier Téllez. The award, which comes with an unrestricted grant of $50,000, was presented to the artist at the museum’s Art...
About In the plazas of Catalonia, a centuries-old tradition continues to defy gravity and unite communities: the castells, or human towers. These awe-inspiring structures—reaching up to ten levels high—are built not with scaffolding or steel, but with the synchronized stre...
A new research paper documents the outcomes of five volunteers who continued to receive 40Hz light and sound stimulation for around two years after participating in an MIT early-stage clinical study of the potential Alzheimer’s disease (AD) therapy. The results show that for the three participants w...
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An investigation into organic apple orchards in Australia has made a surprising discovery: their soils are remarkably similar to those of conventional orchards, where organic farming techniques aren’t used. This suggests that organic food labels don’t always indicate ecological conditions that are s...
Artist Alona Rodeh’s “Nightcaps” is a public art project featuring 15 sculptural additions placed directly on top of existing street lamps in Berlin’s Brunnenviertel (Wedding). In the 1960s, when the neighborhood was rebuilt by the social housing company degewo, large spherical street lamps were ins...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an 18th-century painting to a Korean temple that once housed a vast depiction of hell. The painting, titled The Tenth King of Hell, dates to 1798 and was made during the Joseon Dynasty. It s one panel of a 10-part piece known as Siwangdo formerly sited at ...
Informally known as Horse Shoe Block, Block 78 is one of Singapore's first public housing blocks with a built-in air-raid shelter. Although no bombs dropped, the shelter was essential during the Japanese occupation. Block 78 is situated between Moh Guan Terrace and Guan Chuan Street, and is the larg...
Suckerfish—also known as remoras—are harmless, but the whales didn't seem to be fans of their hitchhiking...
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Even in times of uncertainty, the holidays are a season of giving. According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, even though some donation amounts might decline, most Americans still intend to make holiday donations this year. One way this can be done is through a Light the World Giving Machine, giant...
A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite strike during the Holocene. Measuring 900 meters across, it dwarfs other known craters from the same era. Shock-damaged quartz confirms the intense forces involved. Its survival i...
The transatlantic procedure, carried out on a human cadaver in Scotland, suggests future stroke surgeries could be completed remotely. Robotic surgery has dramatically improved surgical precision, but it could also help surgeons treat people on the other side of the world. A surgeon in Florida has n...
Have you ever spent time in a backyard that felt like a natural oasis? An outdoor space that combines the wild beauty of the natural world with the aesthetic touch of human design? What if that space wasn't just beautiful, but also easy to maintain and helpful to the environment? In Southern Califor...
When you vouch for someone, whether a stranger or a loved one, you always hope they succeed. There are people we encounter who become a memorable part of our lives and when we think of them, we wish nothing but the best for them. Retired lieutenant Gene Eyster often found himself thinking about a ne...
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Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma wanted the jewel's location to be kept secret for 100 years after the death of her husband, Charles I, in 1922. Their descendants now plan to display it at a museum...
In the late 19th century, scientists, researchers, and ambitious adventurers were scrambling to fill in unexplored regions of the world, prize among them being the North Pole, with Norway's remote Spitsbergen region as its starting point. One of these adventurers was Salomon August Andrée, an accomp...
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a microscope that captures signals across an intensity range fourteen times wider than conventional systems. The device records both forward and backward scattered light without using dyes. It operates gently on living cells and supports long-ter...
We’re now accepting applications for the 2026 Meta Data Center Community Action Grants program, which provides direct funding to schools, nonprofits, and community organizations working on projects that benefit the communities where we build our data centers. These grants have been part of our commi...
Reba was a beloved family sitcom with memorable characters who felt like real people. Reba McEntire played Reba Hart, the ex-wife of Brock Hart, played by Christopher Rich. Melissa Peterman played Barbara Jean Hart, Brock’s new wife. Reba didn’t want anything to do with the woman who stole her husba...
