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By Mitch Toda, Head Archivist National Postal Museum Archives Mission Statement NPM Archives collects materials that strengthen and support the Museum's goal to be a global leader and advocate for the research, study, and…

Dennis Francis was speaking at an event  to mark the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo.The landmark conference concluded with a Programme of Action, adopted by 179 governments,…

Rafael Grossi told ambassadors that the first direct attacks since the Russian invasion began. earlier this month, on what is Europe’s largest nuclear facility, constituted a “step change increase in risk to nuclear safety and…

Bioluminescence first evolved in animals at least 540 million years ago in a group of marine invertebrates called octocorals, according to the results of a new study from scientists with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural…

It’s 30 years since a genocide ripped through Rwandan society, leaving up to a million Tutsi and non-extremist Hutu dead. Every year in early April, the country enters a 100-day period of commemoration during which Rwandans are…

Ethiopia and Turkey, which have had cordial ties since the early 20th century, have drawn even closer in recent years as both battle criticism from the west over domestic policies. But new developments are putting the relationship…

HUYE, Rwanda (AP) — The diggers’ hoes scrape the brown soil, looking for — and often finding — human bone fragments. The women then wipe the bone pieces with their hands as others watch in solemn silence. The digging…

For each bad night of sleep in a one-month period, participants reported feeling three months older, on average, than they really are. Mavocado…

Examples of pointed split woods and close-up images of the worked point. Photos: Matthias Vogel, Jens Lehmann, Dirk Leder, NLD. Credit: Proceedings of the National…

Judy Zhang, left, and Rita Parai in Parai's laboratory. Credit: Sean Garcia/Washington University in St. Louis In Earth science, small…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The number of suicides among US college student athletes has doubled over the past 20 years, finds an…

“Who are the Spaniards?” This is the tricky, somewhat perplexing title of a culture module I inherited upon arrival at the University of Limerick. Initially, I turned the question on its head to ask “Who are the Irish?”. I then…

The Nyamwamba River in Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains faces an environmental crisis as devastating floods and toxic mining pollution threaten the health of the region’s population and the surrounding ecosystem.  What’s happening?  In…

The Nyamwamba River in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains faces an environmental crisis as devastating floods and toxic mining pollution threaten the health of the region's population and the surrounding ecosystem.  What's…

Mike Werner: We had no conception at all that we'd be doing this for 15 years as successfully as we have been. Lisa Storrie-Lombardi: We are beyond where we thought we would be, beyond the engineering limits that this was planned…

This morning, breakfast television shows will be reporting obscure, although mildly believable, announcements from organisations and brands about new products, services or discoveries. Social media platforms will also be awash with…

San Francisco —  Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so they began rolling out outlandish ideas every April Fool's Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One year,…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter century ago. One…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin loved pulling pranks, so much so they began rolling outlandish ideas every April Fool’s Day not long after starting their company more than a quarter…

The SPEI-12 values of 2254 meteorological stations in China were interpolated by inverse distance weight space in ArcGIS 10.8.1 software, and the spatial distribution (Figure 5a–f) and average SPEI spatial distribution (Figure 5g) of…

The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com Bruce Wexler is a book ghostwriter and editor in…

DALLAS — Tyler Kolek did everything in his power to keep his head held high. He walked off the court, his face beet red and his jersey torn in half. Tears streamed from his eyes. The pain was overwhelming. Too much so to…

Aerial view of a fissure after two earthquakes hit Turkey on February 22, 2023.VCG via Getty Images The world's most powerful earthquakes happen in subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath the other. When these plates…

The second instalment of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune has dominated most conversations about cinema in the first few months of 2024. Adapted from Frank Herbert’s classic novel, the two-part epic has been credited with reviving the…

1. IntroductionIn this piece, we discuss an exciting full-year undergraduate research course which provided students an opportunity to conduct archival research on six decades of queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans, while Democrats…

The UK will be increasingly tested by more droughts like 2022, emphasising the importance of being prepared for similar extreme weather in future, say scientists who have analysed that summer’s events.The newly published study by the UK…

Family members, friends, and shipmates attended the ceremony to honor and bid fair winds and following seas to Haeuptle, who served 26 years in the Marine Corps and another 18 years as a civil servant.  …

One of the multiple factors that propelled the then relatively unknown apparatchik Vladimir Putin to the pinnacle of power in Russia in late 1999/early 2000, was his ability to convince many members of the Russian elite and the public…

This Town, the new BBC drama from Peaky Blinders creator Stephen Knight, revisits the Midlands setting, also doubling as a somewhat backhanded tribute to the region and a paean to the two-tone music – an amalgam of ska, punk and…

A former school bus driver who stalked and threatened an 8-year-old boy in New Hampshire was sentenced on Thursday to nine years in prison. Michael Chick, 40, of Eliot, Maine, who pleaded guilty in federal court last month to…

Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Southern District of New York (SDNY) Judge Lewis Kaplan, about five months after he…

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — With vigils outside clinics, marches drawing thousands and groups of men kneeling to pray in public squares, religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions…

SPU is celebrating accomplishments in affordability, environmental justice, and waste reduction after the state legislative session concluded on March 7. Our Government Relations staff worked with lawmakers to advance legislative and…

SPU is celebrating accomplishments in affordability, environmental justice, and waste reduction after the state legislative session concluded on March 7. Our Government Relations staff worked with lawmakers to advance legislative and…

An extremely accurate optical clockNIST/R. Jacobson The most accurate clock in the world will lose less than 1 second every 40 billion years, or around three times the current age of the universe. While we have no…

by Peter Veth, David W. Zeanah, Fiona Hook, Kane Ditchfield and Peter Kendrick, The Conversation Barrow Island…

Rodents Stop takes the Lead in Innovative Rodent Clean-Up and Control Services, Bringing Relief to Countless Satisfied Customers! They say the rats will inherit the earth, but I say we will fight to the end.”— BookeyLOS ANGELES…

Prioritising sleep could make you feel youngerUwe Krejci/Getty Images Sleep deprivation could make you feel several years older than you really are. How old someone feels, or their subjective age, has been associated…

Spatial distribution of isoprene emission trends from 2001 to 2020. Credit: Wang Hao et al. Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs)…

Things that take a lifetime to build can be destroyed in mere moments. Case in point: March 28, 1984, when a line of tornadoes carved a path like a buzzsaw across eastern North Carolina. Faye Watson, a resident of Red…

The Luna structure, a 1.8-kilometre-wide depression in north-west India, may have been caused by the largest meteorite to strike Earth in the past 50,000 years

March 25, 2024 | Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador | Health Canada Canadians want and deserve a health care system that provides timely access to health services whenever and wherever they are needed. That is why the…

SeaWorld is an entertainment company that confines animals to cramped concrete tanks at its marine parks across the U.S. Its business is built on the suffering of sensitive, social animals. This week, the business is celebrating its 60th…

Barrow Island, located 60 kilometres off the Pilbara in Western Australia, was once a hill overlooking an expansive coast. This was the northwestern shelf of the Australian continent, now permanently submerged by the ocean. Our new…

Download Presentation A staggering BDT 820 billion shortfall looms over the 2023–24 fiscal year, as revenue collection continues to fall short of targets – following the trend of the past decade. Despite budget…

Ketan Karkhanis’ face still lights up when he talks about sales. An engineer by trade and a sales enthusiast by choice, Karkhanis, Salesforce’s EVP & General Manager of Sales Cloud, is just as fired up about his team’s…

As of March 8th, 2024, the General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) reports that more than JPY 61 billion (USD 414m as of March 8th or USD 403m at today’s exchange rate) in payments from over 67,000 claims from the New Year’s Day…

As of March 8th, 2024, the General Insurance Association of Japan (GIAJ) reports that more than JPY 61 billion (USD 414m as of March 8th or USD 403m at today’s exchange rate) in payments from over 67,000 claims from the New Year’s Day…

Daniel J Stein and Andrew McCarthy THIS captivating shot, showing the sun and full moon perfectly aligned over the Valley of the Gods in Utah last October, amps up anticipation for next month’s total solar eclipse in…