Doing almost anything is better with friends, research finds

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Social interactions are essential for our well-being and happiness, research has shown. And now a large study supports that finding and suggests there are many ways ...

Dogs, bunnies and an 8-legged pet at blessing event

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The event honors the feast of St. Francis, the patron saint of animals. Hundreds of people have flocked to the cathedral on the first Sunday of October for decades, ...

Origins of hallucinations traced to specialized brain cells

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Science appears to be a step closer to understanding how the brain generates hallucinations, raising hopes that someday they might be preventable.

The trendiest TVs are tiny, old and in your kitchen

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Television trends have hustled in one direction: toward ever bigger and flatter screens with the highest possible resolution. Bonus points if the TV camouflages ...

Dog’s hilarious thieving habit stumps experts

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Duke the golden retriever was getting settled in his new adopted home when one day he grabbed a pair of reading glasses and pranced off with them. Then Duke moved ...

We tried ‘sunscreen’ ice cream — and kind of liked it

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“Right off the bat, it’s a tsunami of coconut,” wrote one taster. Another described “toasted coconut overkill. ” Some detected banana (and some didn’t but wished ...

A boxing match decides fight over birthplace of bratwurst

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Two boxers stepped into the ring in the small Thuringian city of Mühlhausen to settle a centuries-old debate: Who can claim title to the world’s oldest bratwurst? ...

What can happen if you let people wear their germy shoes in your house

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The question: Is it true that your shoes can spread germs to the floors in your home and make you sick?

What sound does a fish make? The answer is weirder than you think

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So far, scientists have captured a cacophony of thumps, honks, burps and grunts. And they hope that deciphering these sounds will improve our understanding of aquatic ...

A dog helped an injured wild crow. Now they’re best friends.

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Border collie, Meeko, recently took a liking to an injured wild crow that showed up in the yard in Portland, Oregon. Now they’re “thick as thieves".

Finding the next great runners . . . is this trafficking athletes or a passport out of poverty?

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The runners came from across Kenya, lured by the top prize in the 3 000 meters: the chance to move to the United States and compete for a leading American college. ...

Once the world's top cops, today all the pomp and circumstance hides their irrelevance

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Through two world wars, from Yalta to East Berlin to the Balkans, the sight of American and British leaders together signaled that a predictable order governed the ...

Chianti Classico deserves more respect

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This new attention to terroir is one reason undervalued Chianti Classicos belong on your bucket list of Tuscany’s collectible reds. After all, the wines aren’t the ...

On the runway, Vivian Wilson is more than just Elon Musk’s daughter

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Perhaps no one is having a better New York Fashion Week than Vivian Jenna Wilson. The emerging model and her waist-length strawberry blond hair have walked in four ...

I was a political columnist. Here’s why I’m now searching for hidden beauty

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I spent a recent morning immersed shoulder-deep in that humble hayfield with a team of Smithsonian scientists, and they introduced me to a garden of treasures.

Stone Age wellness therapy is making a comeback

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Just a few steps away from the golden sands that form one of Ireland’s most popular Victorian-era seaside resorts is Kilcullen Seaweed Baths. Vacationers and weary ...

Is it bad to let my pet sleep in my bed?

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Sleeping with pets isn’t new; people have been doing it for thousands of years for warmth and protection from predators.

Anger as Banksy mural of judge beating protester removed

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A mural by the anonymous street artist Banksy portraying a judge beating a protester with a gavel will be removed from the wall outside a London court, according ...

ICE raid threatens to unravel South Korea’s wins with Trump

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The detention of hundreds of South Koreans in a US immigration raid sent shock waves through the Asian nation and plunged Lee Jae Myung into the biggest diplomatic ...

Pope Leo canonizes ‘God’s Influencer’ St Carlo

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Tens of thousands of worshipers filled St. Peter’s Square on Sunday for the canonization of the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint, a London-born computer ...

Every family has a secret language. . . when the 'moot' is full and the cheese is 'flat'

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Most families have their own version of this, an intimate, group-specific dialect known among linguistic experts as “familylect” or “familect. ”

Chef wants you to try his gourmet bugs

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Back in the kitchen, as onions, garlic and tomatillos sizzled in a mix of oil and mezcal, chef Christian Irabién sprinkled in a handful of nubby, black abdomens, ...

Kentucky nurse rescues drunk raccoon, revives it with CPR

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Misty Combs and her colleagues knew something was wrong when they saw a large raccoon pacing in a parking lot near their office one morning. They looked into a dumpster ...

Going people-watching at the zoo with primatologists. Here’s what they saw.

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The zoo is the perfect place to observe primates in the wild: pushing their offspring in strollers. Eating pizza. Cooling off on a bench in the shade. Buying souvenirs. ...

Husband scours 18 tons of rotten food to find wife’s wedding rings

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Jeannine glanced at her left hand and froze. Her two wedding rings - a one-carat diamond solitaire and a slim white gold band with small diamonds - were missing. ...