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Recess isn’t just a fun break for grade schoolers. It’s crucial to good health and good grades for kids of all ages. That's the message from a leading pediatricians’ group, which just released the first new guidance in 13 years about this unstructured time at school and how it needs to be protected. The updated policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics comes after years of shrinking r...

A contemporary art fair has been held in the Ukrainian capital with an unusual premise: that art can help a society come to terms with what war has made normal. “Holding the event during wartime means not waiting for a better moment, but working with reality as it is,” said Anna Avetova, director of the Art Kyiv fair. “In this context, art does not stand apart from life—it helps make sense of the...

Over a thousand beehives in Australia's capital, Canberra, have been wiped out by the Varroa mite, according to local biosecurity officers. The parasite has now spread across the territory and is predicted to cut the local bee population by half, but the experts are hopeful the bees will recover. It’s an alarming trend for local beekeepers. The Varroa mite was first detected in the Australian Capi...

The Taiwanese town of Fenglin has grown a reputation as a place where life moves slowly, and people can catch their breath. Rather than push against this rhythm, the town of around 10,000 has chosen to embrace it and make it part of its identity. Enter the snails. Fenglin has been putting on snail races as a way to celebrate its focus on a slower, sustainable lifestyle that values healthcare, long...

When a heat wave hits, millions of air conditioners switch on at once, straining the electric grid and driving up the risk of outages—and residents' power bills. To ease that strain, power companies may ask customers to do something many probably won't: Set the air conditioner a few degrees higher. Now, a renter-friendly pilot program in New York City is testing a different approach: plug-in batte...

Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony Group Corp. reported a 3.4% drop in its annual profit but projected a comeback to record profits for the current fiscal year. Tokyo-based Sony’s net profit for the year through March totaled 1.03 trillion yen ($6.6 billion), down from 1.07 trillion yen in the previous fiscal year. Ending a plan to release an electric vehicle with Japanese automaker...

As global temperatures rise, extreme heat could threaten athletes, fans, workers, and officials during this year’s World Cup games. Exposure to extreme heat can lead to nausea, dehydration, headaches, stroke, and, in extreme cases, death. Worries from some that millions of people could be exposed during the tournament were amplified in March, when record-breaking temperatures hit large swaths of t...

Visually impaired runners are using AI-powered smart glasses as they prepare for the London Marathon. The glasses are not designed specifically for sight loss, but their cameras, microphones, speakers, and AI features are being used to provide spoken information about surroundings during training and daily life. Running past Buckingham Palace, Tilly Dowler is preparing for a marathon she once thou...

Two years ago, Josephine Timperman arrived at college with a plan. She declared a major in business analytics, figuring she'd learn niche skills that would stand out on a resume and help land a good job after college. But the rise of artificial intelligence has scrambled those calculations. The basic skills she was learning in things like statistical analysis and coding can now easily be automated...

Australia has proposed taxing digital giants Meta, Google, and TikTok on a part of their revenue to pay for news reporters. In April, the government released the draft legislation it intends to introduce to Parliament by July 2 that would create a financial incentive for social media companies to strike deals with news organizations to pay for journalism. The social media platforms’ criticisms inc...

Andrea Bunar had been waiting for months for the arrival of spring and the day she could finally deliver the mail by barge again through the narrow waterways of the Spreewald Forest delta southeast of Berlin. Several weeks ago, the 55-year-old German postal worker stood at the back of her boat again, using one long oar to row, steer, and navigate her boat through the shallow waters. "The start of...

Uber is expanding into a different side of the travel business: hotels. The ride-hailing and delivery company said that users of its app can now book hotel rooms. Uber is using hotel listings provided by Expedia Group, a booking service that works with 700,000 hotels and other properties globally. More than 1 million vacation rentals from Vrbo–which is owned by Seattle-based Expedia–will be added...

It’s not every day—or even every decade—that voters are presented a decision like this: Should the state's individual income tax be eliminated? When that question appears on a Missouri ballot later this year, it will mark the first time since the modern income tax began over a century ago that a U.S. state legislature has asked voters whether to eliminate the tax. If they say "yes," they will also...

Inside workshops, watchmakers assemble movements by hand, working with components often smaller than a millimeter, where tolerances are measured in microns. It's this level of skilled, painstaking craftsmanship that has defined Switzerland as a global hub for luxury watchmaking. Much of the value in high-end mechanical watches comes from what are known as complications, additional functions built...

Record growth in solar, especially in China and India, was a driving factor for clean energy sources surpassing the world’s strong demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new global power analysis. Clean power generation grew 887 terawatt hours last year, exceeding overall global electricity demand growth of 849 terawatt hours, according to a report by energy think tank Ember. Ember analyze...

It's always been challenging for Abbas Awad to find medicines in his village outside Sudan's capital. But since the war in Iran, it's become harder. Prices have spiked, and many pharmacies in the area are out of stock. The latest war in the Middle East has far-reaching effects, including on countries ravaged by conflicts of their own. After three years of war in Sudan, a public health clinic in Qo...

There’s a surprising amount of science in a bag of potato chips. Whether you call them chips, as in the U.S., or crisps, as in the UK, this fast food is a staple of grocery stores. Michigan is a leading producer. Around 70% of the state’s potato crop is destined for chip processing, according to the Michigan Ag Council, a trade group. It estimates that one of every four bags of potato chips produc...

Englishman Ollie Jenks remembers when his friend first pitched the idea to him. The proposal by his Canadian buddy Seth Scott, a fellow lover of cars and crazy adventures, was for them to drive a decades-old British-made Reliant Robin car from London to the southern tip of Africa—a 14,000-mile (22,500-kilometer) journey through 22 countries—to set a record for the longest trip in a three-wheeled v...

Opponents of smoking got a breath of fresh air as Parliament passed a bill that will put cigarettes out of reach for future generations. “The end of smoking, and the devastating harm it causes, is no longer uncertain—it’s inevitable,” Hazel Cheeseman, chief executive of Action on Smoking and Health, said after a decades-long campaign in favor of approved legislation. Children born after December 3...

Alva Palosaari Sundman scoured the racks of secondhand clothes in Stockholm for hours in search of the right pair of pre-owned jeans. The 24-year-old art student was among hundreds of people attending an annual clothing swap at a community center in Sweden's capital. They exchanged their own clothes to "shop" for others. Similar events drew thousands across the country to reduce the environmental...

It’s never been so expensive for Americans to buy a steak or hamburger, but cutting those costs requires ranchers like Stephanie Hatzenbuhler to raise more cattle—and that's not an easy ask. For a host of reasons, Hatzenbuhler and other ranchers across the country are reluctant to grow the national herd—now its smallest in more than 75 years—and until they do so, demand will outweigh supply, and b...

A new phrase is spreading across social media—“Londonmaxxing.” Part meme, part mindset, it describes a growing trend among influencers and young professionals who are rediscovering the city, leaning into its contrasts, and pushing back against more negative narratives about life in the British capital. For travel creator Candace Salters, an American who now lives in London, documenting her experie...

A humanoid robot that won a half-marathon race for robots in Beijing ran faster than the human world record in a show of China's technological leaps. The winner from Honor, a Chinese smartphone maker, completed the 21-kilometer (13-mile) race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds, according to a WeChat post by the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area, also known as Beijing E-Town, where the race...

Running the Boston Marathon is tough enough without having to jostle your way from Hopkinton to Copley Square. So this year, race organizers turned to an expert in crowd science to help them manage the field of more than 32,000 as it travels the 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) through eight Massachusetts cities and towns. “There are certain things that we can’t change—that we don’t want to change—b...

The government-owned corporation that delivers mail in Canada is taking steps to stop home delivery. Canada Post is initiating talks with 13 communities to begin converting about 136,000 addresses from door-to-door delivery to community mailboxes, a standalone unit with designated space for each of the multiple residences it serves. It is the first step in a move that will end home delivery for ab...