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The program roughly halved violent-crime arrests, likely by teaching boys to pause before reacting. But where it was checked, the drop lost statistical significance once sessions ended.
By Sanchana Charles · Oct 15, 2026
On the morning of 29 November 1944, in an operating theatre at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, a 15-month-old girl named Eileen Saxon lay waiting for an operation nobody had tried on a patient before.
By Daniel Moran · Oct 14, 2026
Data posted with a 2024 Nature study puts numbers on the change in 13 tidal creeks, though the 69 percent figure in a university press release is harder to pin down.
By Chris Jeremia · Oct 13, 2026
Sugar-rich foods and drinks may deepen the loss of gut bacterial diversity that broad-spectrum antibiotics cause, according to a…
By Chris Jeremia · Oct 13, 2026
A 1999 hunting season with no bag limit was meant to cut Tennessee’s wild hog numbers, but it made the hogs worth moving, and people released them where they wanted to hunt.
By Sanchana Charles · Oct 13, 2026
Every lobster trap set off the coast of Maine must carry a small plastic tag, usually stamped with a license number, a year and a fishing zone.
By Chris Jeremia · Oct 10, 2026
Palmer Luckey was asked on a podcast what he’d work on if he was starting from zero today, and his answer was divorce.
By Justin Brown · Oct 10, 2026
In the Survival gallery of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh lies a skeleton less than 20 centimetres long, preserved across the two halves of a split slab of limestone.
By Chris Jeremia · Oct 9, 2026
A long exhale is the one calming trick I reach for on purpose. In a German brain-scanner study, the same breath made people take more gambles: losing hurt just as much, but the possible win counted for more.
By Nato Lagidze · Oct 9, 2026
