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Most adults retreat into a personal, quiet world inside their heads when they are reading, but we may be missing out on some vital benefits when we do this.
So many of us externalise the need for calm, peace and simplicity by romanticising about escaping to a “cabin in the woods” that even photographs of such idealised idylls have become big business....
By tracking amphibian songs, citizen scientists are helping us understand what's happening to our environment
Emma Pickles This young girl has found a novel way to eat more fruit while encouraging her creative side. Twelve-year-old Emma ...
A recent examination of media bias on Facebook caught our eye here at AllSides.
Had any other attorney general given the speech Barr gave this week, nobody would have noticed. In the context of his recent actions, Barr’s words amount to a defense of politicized justice.
How we perceive the senses changes in different historical, political, and cultural contexts. Sensory historians ask what people smelled, touched and tasted – all to learn more about the past.
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Pieter Kroonenberg, a Dutch statistician, discovered a nonexistent paper that had been cited more than 400 times.
A global hacking collective known as APT41 has been accused by US authorities of targeting company servers for ransom, compromising government networks and spying on Hong Kong activists. Seven...
You probably recognize these right off the bat: Andrew, Katrina, Sandy and Sally. But when and why did we start giving hurricanes names?
Once again, the Brazilian Amazon is in flames
You don’t have to sanitize your apples anymore, but you do have to wear a mask
In this set of 10 facts, Wendy Edelberg, Kristen Broady, Lauren Bauer, and Jimmy O’Donnell assess the extent of these economic damages and provide an overview of existing policy interventions.
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides
Our feline friends are killing billions of birds every year. A fan of both animals believes there are humane solutions.
Kodak detected the first atomic bomb before anyone else figured it out. Then they made a deal not to tell anyone. Thanks to HBO Max, and their new show raise...
Adding a few paragraphs and photos can boost revenue by £100,000 for small cities
Likely survival rates for these men were judged to be as low as 12 days, which may be why OBs were sometimes referred to as 'Suicide Bunkers'.
A VICE survey of 4,000 people around the world suggests that we may be having less sex, but we're more communicative—and falling more deeply in love.
When cybersecurity reporter Danny Palmer found his card was apparently used on another continent, he set out to discover more.
Experts have been warning for years that this would happen
*Filmed before the pandemic* VICE’s Carla Parmenter meets the Dutch Franquista, Tom De Groot who has turned his home in Amsterdam into a shrine to the Spanis...
In order to better understand the blast and thermal effects of a nuclear bomb, the US dropped a 16-kiloton bomb on a fake town in the middle...
Lockdown and remote work have meant hours of staring at our own faces on video calls – and prompted interest in going under the knife.
Metro centers in the Northwest and interior of the country have the greatest potential for localization.Large portions of the population along the Eastern Seaboard and the southwest corner of the...
On a bright, clear day in mid-June, Andry Kohut, director of the State Archive of the Ukrainian Security Service, stood in front of the sarcophagus of Chernobyl’s reactor Unit 4 wearing sneakers and…
The thief was someone he never expected.
As profound as the COVID-19 crisis seems to us now, it pales in comparison to what previous generations faced. Unlike in the past, however, today's biggest threats must be addressed at both the...
When Massa the gorilla died at age 49 in a tragic fire earlier this year at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany, he was one of the oldest gorillas in Europe. His offspring live in zoos across the continent.
A tragic error showed how complicated it can be to distribute vaccines on a mass scale.
The consequences of Baumol's Cost Disease
The global pandemic will have long-lasting effects on the form and function of future museums
Guille and Belinda are two cousins who spent their summers dreaming of becoming famous singers – then love and motherhood arrived
Rappahannock leans conservative. But transplants are changing the county’s politics, longtime residents say.
Animation is one of the only sectors in the entertainment industry that hasn’t been forced to shut down during the pandemic, leading to a boom for a format that was already on the upswing.