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Are Rage Rooms Good Mental Health Treatment? The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:07:51 0:00 After nearly a year in pandemic lockdowns, many people have experienced stress. There are many different ways to reduce stress. Some people might choose to walk in nature or do another kind of exercise. Others may try some deep breathing or spend time doing an activity that makes them happy. But some people have found a much different way to beat stress – by breaking things into a million...

It’s one thing to see news about a painting by a famous artist selling for millions of dollars. But how do you sell a computer file for that much?

Humans Are Making Oceans Too Noisy February 28, 2021 In this Oct. 15, 2014 file photo, dolphins swim along the side of a boat off the coast of San Pedro, Calif. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:44 0:00 Pop-out player Human activity is changing the surface and temperature of the planet. But new research shows it is also changing the sound of the Earth’s oceans and seas. Scientists say the changes in the sounds of our oceans, seas, and oth...

Edvard Munch’s famous modern painting “The Scream” has a mysterious sentence written in pencil on it. Experts at Norway’s National Museum say they know who put it there and why.

Why Do People Embrace Conspiracy Theories? The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:00 0:00 Pop-out player American officials are still working to find out the identities of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6. It appears that many were believers in a conspiracy theory. It said that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, but was cheated because of widespread election wrongdoing. Conspiracy theories often depend on seeing things only in terms of right and ...

Cyprus Activists Say Hunters Lead Pellets Threaten Flamingos February 28, 2021 Flamingos walk at a salt lake in the southern coastal city of Larnaca, in the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021.(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:04:56 0:00 Pop-out player Animal activists in Cyprus are asking officials to expand a hunting ban throughout a group of salt lakes near the coast. They are worried that migrating flamingos co...

In a Greek Detention Center, an Official Uses TV to Teach Prisoners February 28, 2021 Prisoners sitting in a room while they watch a recorded music lesson in Avlona prison, north of Athens, Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:00 0:00 Pop-out player The director of a detention center in Greece is using television to teach the young men there who have no other way to get an education. Petros Damianos is the director of the school ...

NASA Releases First Video and Color Photos from Mars Explorer February 25, 2021 A portion of a panorama made up of individual images taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, aboard NASAs Perseverance Mars rover shows the Martian landscape, Feb. 20, 2021. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via Reuters) Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:04:26 0:00 Pop-out player The U.S. space agency NASA has released the first video, pictures and sound captured by its Mars explorer Persever...

Sheep with 35 Kilograms of Wool Finally Gets a Haircut February 25, 2021 width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:04 0:00 Share share The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:02:21 0:00 Pop-out player Sheep do not normally make news, but video of a sheep with a huge amount of hair in Australia has been popular on social media. The sheep had gone wild years ago. A member of the public found him 60 kilometers north of Melbourne. The person contacted Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanct...

How Will We Know When We Reach Herd Immunity? The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:06:56 0:00 How will we know when we reach herd immunity? That is the question people are asking as governments race to vaccinate people around the world to stop the spread of COVID-19. Herd immunity is when a large number of people in a community will either have recovered from infection or been vaccinated. Herd immunity does not mean everyone is protected from the virus. It means that the coronavirus...