One day in August, 1875, a grayish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the last ...

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Researchers at the King Center on Global Development are addressing challenges such as gender-based violence and low labor ...

An international team of researchers led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst has tracked changes in more than 114,000 ...

Extreme rainfall in New Zealand from future cyclones could rise by up to 35%. New high-resolution modeling predicts that ...

The southwestern United States has been in a historic megadrought for much of the past two decades, with its reservoirs, ...

There's a moment in the American sitcom The Office when Michael Scott, the paper-company branch manager played by Steve ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank ...

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Writing, reading, math and mindfulness? That last subject is increasingly joining the three classic courses, as more young ...

Many of us would struggle to recall the last time we wrote anything substantial by hand. Digital devices often feel more ...

Remarkable new fossil discoveries in New Zealand are driving a significant reassessment of our understanding of the early ...