Despite Their Successes, Some Mobile Crisis Response Teams Are in Crisis
It was a snowy afternoon in Bozeman, a city of nearly 60,000 nestled among the mountains of southern Montana. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s. The...
Month : March 2026
Lawmakers, Health Groups Resist Their States’ Rural Health Fund Plans
In the final days of 2025, governors around the country trumpeted the hundreds of millions of federal dollars they won from a new, $50 billion...
Prehistoric water-dwelling weirdo with sideways teeth and a twisted jaw was already a ‘living fossil’ 275 million years ago
Paleontologists have revealed a bizarre prehistoric creature with a twisted jaw and sideways-facing teeth, and the water-dwelling weirdo was already a “living fossil” when it...
Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
A typical male burial from the Stone Age cemetery of Csőszhalom in Hungary. He is buried on his right side, with a polished stone tool...
JWST’s ‘little red dots’ could be the ‘parents’ of the universe’s first supermassive black holes
Astronomers may have found evidence that some of the mysterious “little red dots” discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are not black holes,...
Gold coin discovered by a metal detectorist in the UK may have been dropped by a Viking invader from the Great Heathen Army
A gold coin minted more than 1,000 years ago as an imitation of a more famous coin may be a relic of the “Great Heathen...
‘An entirely new tool for cosmology’: The gravitational wave background could mend our broken understanding of the universe
Physicists may have a brand-new way to measure the expansion rate of the universe — one of the biggest outstanding mysteries in cosmology — using...
March 3 ‘blood moon’ total lunar eclipse dazzles millions around the world (photos)
As the full moon started to set over North America in the early hours of March 3, it briefly plunged into the darkest part of...
Vanuatu’s ‘barefoot volcanologist’ stands at ash- and sulfur-spewing Mount Yasur in award-winning photograph
A photograph of an amateur volcanologist standing barefoot on the lava fields of Vanuatu’s Mount Yasur has won the Portraiture category of the Open competition...
Readers Lean On Congress To Solve Crises in Research and Rehab
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