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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...
Boise's wave park is attracting outdoor adventurers—and the innovative public works project is inspiring other cities...
A cousin of one of the suspected robbers in the Louvre heist recently spoke out in an interview with ABC News. A man identified as Mehdy, who claims to be the cousin of one of the suspected Louvre robbers, told ABC News James Longman in an exclusive new interview for the television special Impact x ...
Excavations at the Overfield Tavern Museum revealed a treasure trove of objects, including jewelry, dishware, a bottle cork, a smoking pipe and early American currency...
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Lemon Henry Jefferson was born blind to African American sharecroppers in the Freestone County town of Coutchman in 1893 or 1894. Somewhere along the line, "Blind Lemon" took up the guitar, playing in brothels and on street corners around East Texas. In the early 1910s, he began performing with Lead...
Well-preserved oak and maple boats used for transport and fishing to be displayed in Peterborough After lying undisturbed in mud for more than 3,000 years, three rare bronze and iron age log boats have emerged to offer fresh insights into prehistoric life. The boats were among nine discovered in a C...
RNA molecules have the capacity to survive the test of time. For the first time, the oldest RNA molecules have been extracted from the 40,000-year-old remains of an Ice Age woolly mammoth. Researchers from Stockholm University extracted the RNA sequences from a juvenile mammoth (named Yuka) that die...
The winter Olympic viewership numbers don't lie: Honestly, is there anything more beautiful and graceful than ice skating? It's got the gorgeous aesthetics of gymnastics and dance combined with an almost other-worldliness as the skaters glide and fly around the ice. There's a reason people can't see...
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In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of Western Australia when a bee grabbed her attention. Prendergast and her colleague dug deeper and found that the native bee, now named Megachile lucifer, is a new-to-science species...
NASA’s ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) mission launched at 3:55 p.m. EST atop a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket at Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Credit: Blue Origin A pair of NASA spacecraft ultimately destined for Mars will study ho...
The DMA requires Meta to give people using WhatsApp in Europe the option to connect with people using third-party messaging services that have chosen to make their apps interoperable. We call this feature, third-party chats. Following successful small scale tests over the past months, the option for...
Founder s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Before dawn breaks over Surabaya, Indonesia’s “City of Heroes,” Akhyari Hananto is already at work. After morning prayers, he opens Google Analytics to watch the night’...
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Building new foundations Welcome to the third installment of The Optimist Daily’s Annual Local Changemakers series. Over five weeks, we’re celebrating ten extraordinary individuals and organizations transforming their communities through heart-led innovation. Thi...
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Built between 1972 and 1984, Fudai's floodgate was erected thanks to the insistence of longtime mayor Kotoku Wamura. A witness to the 1933 Sanriku tsunami that claimed 137 of Fudai's inhabitants, and aware that an even deadlier tsunami had struck the town in 1896, he vowed to ensure that such devast...
Showing kindness doesn't cost a thing, but it's impact is always worth its weight in gold. We typically experience kindness from other humans, but all living creatures are capable making a kindness connection—even across species. A sweet squirrel is certainly proof of that. Originally shared in a si...
It’s not unheard of for people to do nice things for their neighbors. This might mean borrowing a bag of rice to finish dinner or collecting the neighbor's mail while they're on vacation. All of these scenarios fall within the realm of normal, kind neighborly interactions. But while some neighbors m...
A nice, warm meal is one of the great unifiers. Food communicates everything from love and tradition like a home cooked dinner with all of the trimmings and even political stances. At a state dinner, food has the power to cultivate understanding across cultures–or potentially create tensions. How ex...
Far from hospitals, nomadic Gujjar women routinely go into labour – and die – on their herder communities’ long seasonal treks Dawn had just broken across the trail through the Pir Panjal mountains when Fatima Deader felt the first labour pains. She and her family had almost reached the midway point...
