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Education Dec 18, 2025

There's little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings

A group of college students braved the frigid New England weather on Dec. 13, 2025, to attend a late afternoon review session at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Eleven of those students were struck by gunfire ...

Plants & Animals Dec 11, 2025

Managing conflict between baboons and people: What's worked, and what hasn't

Conflict between humans and baboons can tear communities apart. Shirley C. Strum has studied wild olive baboons in Kenya for more than 50 years. In that time she's come to understand the species intimately. In this article ...

Plants & Animals Nov 24, 2025

How neighborhoods can work to address rise in black bear encounters

UCLA's famed campus Bruin statue doesn't have it all that different from his living, breathing cousins some 30 miles away in the San Gabriel Mountain communities. When encountered on Bruin Walk, people will instinctively ...

Optics & Photonics Nov 3, 2025

Global initiative advances next-generation light sensors based on emerging materials

A global team of experts from academia and industry has joined forces in a landmark Consensus Statement on next-generation photodetectors based on emerging light-responsive materials, which could accelerate innovative applications ...

Ecology Oct 31, 2025

Where Kentucky's hellbenders live and what they need to survive

A new University of Kentucky study used environmental DNA (eDNA) to search 90 sites across 73 rivers for Eastern hellbenders—large, secretive salamanders nicknamed "snot otters" and "lasagna lizards" for their mucus secretions ...

Environment Oct 27, 2025

When a hurricane threatens, these tips can help you prepare

Hurricane season can be stressful for anyone near the potential path of a storm, as powerful winds and heavy rain can cause widespread damage, cut power for days or weeks and otherwise upend people's lives.

Environment Oct 21, 2025

When coal smoke choked St. Louis, residents fought back, but it took time and money

It was a morning unlike anything St. Louis had ever seen. Automobile traffic crawled as drivers struggled to peer through murky air. Buses, streetcars and trains ran an hour behind schedule. Downtown parking attendants used ...

Nanomaterials Oct 2, 2025

Silver-nanoring coating points to 'self-regulating' smart windows—without power or tinting

A new Danish research breakthrough could make buildings far more energy-efficient in the future. Researchers from Aarhus University's Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) have developed a light-responsive hybrid material ...

Environment Sep 30, 2025

Our AI model can help improve indoor ventilation during wildfire season

A recent report from the University of Chicago's Air Quality Life Index found that wildfires are worsening air quality in Canada. The report found that in 2023, wildfires caused concentrations of particulate matter to rise ...

Social Sciences Sep 18, 2025

Children's best interests should anchor Canada's approach to their online privacy

In 2025, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence access for the public at large also means growing concern about the mental health impact of screen time on children and their AI engagement.

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