As the world's population becomes more and more urban, cities are emerging as key components of the Anthropocene—both as major contributors to climate change and as potential trendsetters for innovation and action. But in order to understand the role of cities in the Earth system and chart sustainable pathways to the future, researchers face a daunting challenge: integrating diverse interdisciplinary data and translating the findings into effective, equitable policy.
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Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try to treat the disease—which can cause vision loss—by regenerating healthy nerves in the eye. But…
The U.S. is opening its 2026 World Cup on Friday evening against Paraguay. For the 26 Americans on the team, this match is the culmination of years of hard work and training.
Friday's game, the first of three group stage matches for the U.S., has been eight years in the making as a generation of players has reached their prime just in time for a World Cup on home soil.
Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since the iPhone was introduced nearly two decades ago.
Boston Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, will be hopping on Saturday night for the first local match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — Haiti vs. Scotland. And Thursday night, the teams arrived to the region to a ton of very excited fans. Team Scotland was all business as they arrived in Boston and made their way into the Westin Hotel. Their fans, though, have been having a great time. We caught up with some nearby in Boston who were already enjoying a pint or two. The Scots have been waiting since 1998 to see their team back in the World Cup. “This team? They’ll fight for the country. Theya re very passionate, the same as the fans,” one fan said. “They’ll leave everything on the pitch,” said another. “We don’t always win, but at the end of the day, they would have played their heart out,” the first fan said. In Quincy, Haitian players graciously signed autographs for people waiting to great them at the hote
Across the state, nuclear is getting a warm welcome in communities that typically oppose large-scale clean energy projects.
Some of the top high school baseball talent from the Capital Region descended upon Joseph L. Bruno Stadium Thursday night for the sixth annual 518 Futures High School Baseball Classic.
Thornton says the show's mix of emotion, drama, humor, absurdity and danger appeals to audiences everywhere.
Researchers in South Korea have recreated the legendary “sea silk” once prized by emperors, using fibers from a clam cultivated in Korean coastal waters. They discovered that its famous golden shine comes from tiny protein structures that reflect light rather than from pigments or dyes. Because the color is built into the fiber’s structure, it can remain vibrant for centuries.
This reader asks Dear Abby what he should do about his sister's affair with an older, wealthy man.
250 years ago today, Virginia’s colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of Rights. Known as the “Virginia Declaration of Rights,” it formed the basis and foundation of government in Virginia at the time, and a slightly updated version may still be seen in Virginia’s Constitution, making it legally in effect to this […] The post Good News in History, June 12 appeared first on Good News Network.