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By their eighth birthday, an estimated 9 in 10 New Zealand children will have experienced some form of serious adversity. They might have been neglected, grown up with family violence, lived through a separation or coped with a parent’s mental…
Archaeologists have long pictured prehistoric hunters taking down mammoths and other megafauna using the atlatl, a handheld spear-throwing device that uses leverage to achieve greater velocity and force when throwing darts. In particular, use of the atlatl was thought to…
ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Sarajedini, G. Piotto This image released on June 26, 2026, features the globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. Like its namesake, it sparkles with countless lights. However, each ‘lightbulb’ in this chandelier is…
Older people are defying stereotypes of aging by playing walking soccer, research from Cardiff University shows. Walking soccer is advertised as an accessible sport that provides a safe, sociable and inclusive physical activity. Rules vary depending on the respective club…
The past 250 years of optical telescopes have seen revolutionary discoveries and technology that the telescope’s inventor, a seventeenth century spectacle-maker by the name of Hans Lippershey, maybe wouldn’t have believed possible. When we look back through the annals of…
Fighting along key transport routes pushes up food prices in areas far from the conflict itself, according to a new study. Researchers examined the price of maize and other staples during the war in Somalia between government forces and Al-Shabaab,…
Outright smartphone bans in schools are likely to be ineffective and undermine students’ trust without addressing core issues like harmful online content, cyberbullying and addictive platform design, a new UCL report finds.
Working from home could improve family well-being, gender equality, fertility and staff retention, but only if fathers can use it without stigma or career penalties, new research from King’s College London finds. The researchers analyzed data from the Survey of…
Land surface temperature data captured by Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission on Wednesday, June 23, 2026. The data were captured in the late morning, local time. (Image credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA) Over 1,300 deaths have…
Women remain vastly underrepresented in tourism transport jobs worldwide, making up just 3% of land passenger transport workers (such as bus and train staff) in countries with available data, according to a University of Surrey-led report.