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A couple holds a large check with a leader of Alzheimer Scotland

For their 50th wedding anniversary, this couple asked for one gift: Donations to their local dementia charity

In lieu of gifts, the couple asked their loved ones to make a donation for their special celebration.

This cookbook is all about the climate impact of the foods you love: 'Serving up science on a plate'

Author Mark Easter has written more than 50 scientific papers and reports related to carbon cycling and the carbon footprint of agriculture, forestry, and other land uses.

Three highly artistic and colorful chairs, one with overhanging cords, another with colorful carpetlike padding, and the other shaped like a stool with lava spilling over the sides.

These artists transformed their mental health issues into chairs. When guests sit in them, the gallery takes on a whole new meaning

Art curator Sandra Davis set 14 chairs on display in the Arts Barn’s professional art gallery in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in the hopes of creating a new kind of conversation on mental health struggles.

Conservationists delighted by jaguar sighting in Arizona: 'They’re finding what they need'

A rare jaguar sighting is giving conservationists hope in the Grand Canyon State.

Composite panels made with Australian reishi fungi and biomass waste. Kumar Biswajit Debnath/UTS

These fire-resistant 'mushroom blocks' could be the construction material of the future

Because mycelium grows by binding itself to whatever it feeds on, it naturally forms a kind of living glue.

A man laying down on a couch holds his head as a therapist sits just out of frame

Digital avatars are helping psychosis patients confront the voices in their heads

New technology from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London is helping patients confront auditory hallucinations.

A child sits at a desk, bored, resting his head on his hand

Screens have made it easier than ever for kids to avoid boredom. But here's why it's good for them to have nothing to do

Boredom serves a useful purpose, scientists say. It motivates people to pursue new goals and challenges.

From left to right: pangolin, telescope octopus, and kultarr

16,000 new species are discovered every year. Experts say discovery 'far outpaces the rate of species extinctions'

Professor John Wiens from the University of Arizona has shed new light on the pace of new species discoveries — and how it compares to extinction rates.

A photo collage of a girl lying down in a hospital bed, a housing project with a car parked in front, and a man with his head bowed down as he sits at the dining table

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On the left, a young woman stands beside two cartoon creations she's made with an update reading that she donated $40,000 to mental health aid this year. On the right, a close-up of the front cover of "It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth."

This book has been hailed as one of the best graphic novels of the decade. Now it’s helped raise over $40K for mental health services

British artist Zoe Thorogood was just 23 when she penned “It’s Lonely at the Centre of the Earth.”

A group of students raising hands in class as a teacher leads.

8 real college classes that seem too strange to be true — and remind us that learning should be fun

From the world of Taylor Swift to surviving zombie apocalypses, these are some of the most bizarre college courses in the country.

From left to right: a poison dart frog, a pika, a dumbo flapjack octopus

Scientists discovered thousands of new species in 2025. See 9 that wowed them, from the 'curiously isolated' butterfly to the screaming pika

From a butterfly shaped by 40,000 years of isolation to creatures 1,400 feet below the sea, scientists uncovered thousands of new species in 2025 — and these nine discoveries stood out amongst the rest.