The North Atlantic right whale is highly endangered, its survival as a species in doubt. There are only about 370 of these dark, bulbous baleen whales remaining. No one knows exactly how large the population once was, but most estimates place it at almost 30 times that number. Those that remain migrate up and down […]

One day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery — and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century. Dart was examining a set of fossils that had been unearthed by miners near the town of Taung in South Africa when […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and I share the experience of recovering from heroin addiction. Like me, he started the process at a residential rehabilitation facility in the 1980s and participated in a 12-step program based on Alcoholics Anonymous, which promotes abstinence from substances. Unlike me, however, he seems to have remained wedded to this treatment […]

A judge on Sunday ordered a man suspected of killing five people by driving a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in Germany to remain in detention as the authorities worked to understand the motives behind an attack that has stunned the country. The victims in the assault on the market, which took […]

Alpha Genesis Incorporated (AGI), a South Carolina primate research and breeding facility 43 monkeys escaped from in November, is now under investigation for alleged violations of “abuse and neglect.” Alpha Genesis Incorporated has long been a prominent supplier of primates for biomedical research, holding $19 million in U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) contracts and […]

Jennifer Heath Box shivered on a mat on the floor, her back pressed against another inmate’s back, as they desperately tried to stay warm. The air conditioning blew a frigid breeze through the Broward County Jail in south Florida. Guards walked by wearing coats and beanies. It was Christmas Eve. Her son, a Marine, was […]

Ukraine attacked a major fuel facility in western Russia overnight as part of a “massive” drone attack over the border, a Russian official has said, targeting the same site Kyiv said supplies the Russian military for the second time in little over a week. Ukraine launched a “massive” drone attack on the Oryol region, north […]

People and companies are placing big bets on artificial intelligence. One of the safer ones is that demand for workers with AI skills will continue to grow. Labor market watchers told Business Insider that in 2025, as in 2024, many employers will likely be eager to hire people with skills in AI — like machine-learning […]

Christmas is often called the most wonderful time of the year, but gift-giving can become a source of stress for many, especially married couples. While giving gifts is intended as an act of kindness, it can easily lead to tension, as revealed in an October survey conducted by DatingNews.com. Over one-third (37 percent) of respondents […]

If you’ve been beating yourself up about what you and your kids have been eating (and not eating) over the past few days – stop.  If you haven’t wrung your hands a few times over the amount of sweet things your children have eaten over the Christmas period you won’t be the only one. My […]

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