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To Teach Scientists About Chronic Feline Pain, Cats Wear Adorable Crocheted Hats

Google “cats in hats” and you’ll be met with a surfeit of long-suffering kitties donning baseball caps, bonnets, bowlers, tiaras, you name it. And now, adorable woolen beanies that can measure the animals’ brain waves are also in the mix.  A first-of-its-kind study out of the University of Montreal fitted cats with a specially crocheted, […]

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Groundbreaking Device Enables More Accurate Breast Cancer Detection — Minus the Discomfort of Mammograms

Amid updated guidelines and new requirements around breast cancer screenings, a groundbreaking imaging device is facilitating better detection of the disease in its early stages.  Developed by Georgia-based imaging technology company Koning Health, the Koning Vera Breast CT produces high-resolution, 3D photos in seven seconds and doesn’t compress the breasts the way a mammogram does

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Mentally Resilient People Live Longer, Study Suggests — Try These Tips to Boost Your Coping Skills

When faced with a challenging circumstance, there are two ways to respond: smile serenely and say, “bring it on,” or throw your hands up and yell, “I can’t cope!”  All right, so maybe a middle ground exists, but unless you’re a zen master, you’ve probably experienced that second reaction at some point in time. Thankfully,

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“Poetry in Motion”: Portrait Collection Highlights Nearly 100 of America’s Endangered Languages

In Koasati, which is spoken in Louisiana and parts of Texas, the word “ihoochastontihchotok” means “bringing time back from the past to now.” It’s one of nearly 100 terms from an equal number of languages represented in author and photographer B.A. Van Sise’s latest book.  On the National Language, out Sept. 28, features evocative portraits

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10 Inspiring Triathletes Breaking Barriers and Blazing Their Own Trails

Running a race is one thing; it’s another to add on swimming and cycling before lacing up one’s sneakers and hitting the pavement. Such is the challenge for triathletes, who pack three endurance sports into one exhilarating, all-consuming race.  “I look at triathlons as the fountain of youth,” 73-year-old Bob Babbitt, a legendary athlete who

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Through Pop-Up Sewing Lessons, UK Street Stitching Movement Tackles Fast Fashion

In this age of fast fashion, many people don’t give a second thought to tossing a torn shirt or ditching a pair of pants with a broken zipper. But go back in time a few decades, and simply mending what needed repairing would be far more commonplace. With her posse of street sewers who gather

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How a Simple DIY Rain Garden Can Benefit Your Backyard and the Environment

Heavy rains can leave gardens looking like the aquatic levels in a video game, unhappily turning terrestrial foliage into floating plants. And the runoff from these events can also do damage to the local water supply. There’s an easy, aesthetically pleasing way to harness that extra water, though, and it can benefit your backyard and

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Level Up Your Daily Walk With These 21 Essentials

Recommendations are independently selected by our team but may result in a commission to Nice News which helps keep our content free. There’s something soul-filling about a good old-fashioned walk, putting your feet to the pavement — or maybe dirt, grass, or sand (dreamy). But it’s far from purely a pleasure activity: Research has shown

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Teen Coder Is Building First-of-Its-Kind American Sign Language App

Talking with 17-year-old Dhanush Eashwar is a sure-fire way to feel confident about the future, as Nice News happily learned during a recent telephone interview with the inspiring computer science wiz.    Eashwar is one of the 2024 winners of Apple’s Swift Student Challenge, which tasks young creators with developing apps that solve real-world problems. His

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