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In today's edition: Uzbekistan has seen its poverty rate drop by a third in a single year, Norway opens its biggest-ever marine protected area, and an interactive map tracks almost 1,000,000 trees across Berlin and calculates the water needs of each so residents can intervene.
"These are good, hard-working kids that deserve some gratitude." The post 11-year-olds mowed 50 lawns for free, so the ‘Lawnmower Man’ donated gear to open a…
Firefighters, animal control officers and public works employees teamed up in North Carolina to rescue a fawn found trapped in a…
Raylene Jessup collects homeless animals inside the Cotton Mill, her antique store in Selma, which houses 30 felines at present
4,483 years ago today, or so it’s said, the sky above the Korean Peninsula opened and Hwanung, the mythical progenitor of Korean…
In the mid-19th century, some 400,000 people traversed the Oregon Trail to settle in the American west. Given that this migration…
With illegal logging and agricultural expansion closing in on their lands, four Indigenous Wounaan and Emberá-Wounaan villages in…
Ultrafast current pulses let scientists push superconductors beyond their usual experimental limits before vortices and heat could interfere. The method…
A new paper suggests that limiting protein intake triggers a coordinated response throughout the body that may help explain how…
Particle accelerators aren’t just for testing the Standard Model. They’re also used to diagnose and treat disease and study world…
Uneven supernova explosions may explain the unusual mix of elements in Milky Way stars once thought to be evidence of hypernovas.
Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked…
Scientists have directly observed a subtle geometric property of electrons in a three-dimensional topological insulator.…
This weekend, the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia is marking a big milestone.
Oslo city hall (Rådhuset) is one of the countries most visited tourist sites, famous for hosting the annual Nobel Peace Prize…
Meandering botanical forms, gestural dancing, and sweeping birds converge into fluid loops. Do stories and artists like this…
The works draw on motifs of migration, but the motifs themselves migrate across the gallery.
“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem — in my opinion — to characterize our age.”
A new archaeological discovery suggests that people in present-day Georgia have feasted with cacao for 1,000 years
Native wisdom and ancient rock paintings save the day. The post California brought back beavers for the first time in 70 years, and the results are already…
UNGUJA, Tanzania — Decades before they would partner to build a marine conservation organization together, Ali Thani and Lorna…
As they near the end of their productive lives, the 3 wind turbines spinning on Antarctica’s Ross Island have made an enormous…
Existing at the junction of land and sea, mangrove forests have long been heralded for their ecosystem services, including their…
Scientists suspect this musical trait arose independently in humans and indris, which split from a common ancestor some 74…
Just days after she was born, Twiggy was found hiding amongst a herd of zebras for protection.
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