In a decision that one advocacy group said would “make dignity non-negotiable,” Philadelphia schools have adopted a new wellness program that will guarantee recess and bathroom breaks. The program also prevents teachers from withdrawing acc…
These stunning photos show the moment a huge murmuration of starlings flew in unison across March’s full moon. Remarkable pictures show a flock of thousands of starlings as they swooped across the skyline as the Moon reached its peak. March’…
Last year, a broad network of camera traps in western Turkmenistan was broadened in the hopes of better understanding the populations of an Endangered leopard subspecies. Powered by a Washington, DC conservation financier, from a country whose citizens…
Creators of the original “party game for horrible people” are proving themselves to be anything but horrible, as they offer customers a formal refund equal to the additional cost they paid for Cards Against Humanity under U.S. President Trump’s t…
A research team led by scientists at the University of Waterloo, Ontario is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumors from the inside out. Key to the approach is a bacterium called Clostridium sporog…
In an incredible, bittersweet success story, Croatia has announced it has freed itself from the scourge of landmines, 31 years after the country’s civil war. During the breakup of Yugoslavia, 1.5 million landmines were estimated to have been used…
