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It's OK to love all the bees (the honey bees, too)

North America's bee populations are in trouble, but don't blame the honey bees. While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees—those raised to help pollinate crops and produce honey—is causing native bees to disappear, the evidence doesn't support the claim.

With Middle East in flames, Trump eyes ‘next conquest’

US President Donald Trump said in a late-night boast that the American military is already looking ahead to its “next conquest” as the Middle East remains embroiled in a deadly military conflict that Trump and his ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, unleashed six

Kelsey Lu – “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire”

Portrait Of A Lady On Fire — excellent movie! That’s also the title of the also-excellent new single from Kelsey Lu, whose new album So Help Me God is coming out this June (we really liked its lead single “Running To Pain“). “Portrait Of A Lady On Fire” is a cello-embellished

Study rethinks the dropout-crime connection

Dropping out of high school has been linked to higher rates of delinquency and lower socioeconomic status, but thinking of high school dropouts collectively, as one group, is a flawed belief that could be affecting interventions. The paper is published in the journal Emerging

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This week: Compton’s forthcoming art center, a Lebanese artist’s workshops for displaced children, dog sledding in Yukon, the NGA goes viral on TikTok, stop-motion versus AI, and more.

This giant virus just gave up its atomic blueprint

A research group has successfully determined, for the first time in the world, the capsid (outer shell) structure of Melbournevirus—a member of the giant virus family—at a resolution of 4.4 Å using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). The work is published in the journal

Andy Kim: Trump 'should be removed from office'

Sen. Andy Kim (D-N.J.) said Wednesday that President Trump “should be removed from office” amid the president's threats toward Iran. “I think he is unfit to be commander-in-chief. I think he should be removed from office,” Kim told CNN's John King on "The Source." Kim is not