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Venice announced on Thursday that it would introduce a fee for day tourists to enter the city’s overcrowded historic center on 29 days next year as it seeks to come to grips with overtourism.This article […]

A seasoned deer hunter is shocked when his hound dog trots up with a human femur clenched between its teeth. A woman veers off her normal urban walking path and happens upon a human skull. […]

Newly published research reexamines the evaluation of scientific findings, proposing a network-based methodology for contextualizing a publication’s impact.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

A bottle of The Macallan 1926, described by Sotheby’s auction house as the “most valuable whisky in the world”, on Saturday went under the hammer for a record £2.1 million.This article is brought to you […]

This week’s news roundup includes a Bronze Age discovery that calls into question existing ideas of gender representation from the period. More research confirms that bonobos are actually nice. Plus: Actual good climate news?This article […]

Jennifer L. Mnookin, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and one of the most cited evidence law scholars in the nation, this week authored an editorial in the journal Science calling for a national commission […]

More than 1,000 state scientists in California took to the picket line Thursday on day two of a three-day strike, calling for higher wages for work they say often goes unrecognized in a state that […]

On a summer’s day in July 1943, a U.S. B-25 Mitchell bomber left Tunisia in North Africa on a mission to attack the Sciacca Aerodrome in Sicily, Italy.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

Thousands of scientists who work for California began a rolling three-day strike Wednesday—the first walkout by a state civil service union.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.

This week, we covered developments about a record-breaking black hole, the continued plight of polar bears, ChatGPT trying to learn intuition and more. Don’t worry if you missed those stories. We’ve got you covered here.This […]