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. Daily Edition • July 3, 2025 SUPPORTED BY You might soon experience some of the shortest days of your life. That may sound scary, but it’s really just an oddity relating to Earth’s rotation. Over the past few years, our planet has been overall spinning faster on its axis, to the point that timekeeping experts have said our clocks might have to skip a second around 2029. In the shorter term, the quicker rotation means that there are a few days coming up that are expected to be shorter than…Read more
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Wake up to good news. Supported By Sunday • February 4, 2024 As a former school psychologist, Ernesto Rodriguez understands how important mental and emotional well-being are for a child’s education — and as a passionate landscape photographer, he understands even better the role greenery can play in improving that well-being. With his nonprofit, Nature in the Classroom, Rodriguez combines his areas of expertise, creating stunning ceiling murals of tree canopies for school classrooms that...
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Wake up to good news. Supported By Saturday • February 3, 2024 The Cambridge University Botanic Garden is expecting a rare event soon: Its Amazonian cactus seems poised to produce not one but four blooms. The moonflower, or Strophocactus wittii, has a fleeting bloom period — its flowers come in just once a year and last only 12 hours before dying. When Cambridge’s plant bloomed in February 2021, it was thought to be the first time one had ever flowered in the U.K., as the species is abundant...
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Wake up to good news. Supported By Friday • February 2, 2024 It’s here again: Groundhog Day! The unofficial holiday, which has its roots in the Christian celebration of Candlemas, stipulates that if famed groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, we’ll have six more weeks of winter. If he didn’t, an early spring is in our future. The tradition as we know it was first recorded in a Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, newspaper in 1886, though it was likely going on in some form long...