A Minnesota elementary school teacher donates kidney to her school’s custodian
Third-grade teacher Erin Durga says chills ran through her body the moment she learned a school custodian needed a kidney donation. She had an...
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Chef José Andrés says US needs the ‘political will’ to end the hunger crisis
Chef José Andrés, who has spent much of 2020 feeding people on the frontlines of the Covid-19 pandemic, called the United States government’s inability...
Flying fish: Real fish, but not really flying 
Dolly Parton saved her 9-year-old costar from an oncoming car
When she’s not helping fund vaccine research or supporting the Black Lives Matter movement or inventing a successful meme, the monarch of country music...
Amazing images: The best science photos of the week
Here are the stories behind the most amazing images in the world of science this week. A recap of the coolest photos featured on...
Ancient Egyptian hoard of counterfeit ‘dirty money’ unearthed
A shortage of silver caused by the collapse of leading Bronze Age civilizations around the eastern Mediterranean about 1200 BC resulted in the original...
How long can human embryos stay frozen?
Hypothetically, an implanted embryo could be older than the woman who gives birth to it.
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Thousands of people are protesting with farmers in India. This is why you should care
Farmers in India have reached a stalemate with the government over its proposed amendments to laws the farmers feel will ravage their livelihoods and...
This river is legally a person. Here’s how it happened
As a child in the 1970s, Gerrard Albert played on the mud flats at the mouth of New Zealand’s Whanganui River where raw sewage...
A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond 
Could a new global panel defuse inequality’s ‘ticking time bomb’? 
Homicides fall as organised crime grows more profitable – and networked 
Somali families face renewed violence amid worsening hunger crisis