For the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI), Christmas came early in 2025. Zookeepers were ...

The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has welcomed two sloth bear cubs, marking the first time the zoo has had ...

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People who hug others daily are less depressed and anxious A large-scale hugging study with data of more than 3,200 volunteers from 2025 investigated the links between hugging and depression and ...

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In Beijing's central district, trees are everywhere: in parks, along roadsides and in courtyards inside people's houses. Many have only been planted in recent decades. Others—with wide trunks—have ...

Akanksha Awal receives funding from the ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, and St John's College. I would like to thank Hangzhang Ding, an undergraduate at Peking University at the time, who accompanied me in ...

"My mom wanted to make her presence known," bride Allyson Beedy tells PEOPLE Raven Berlin Photo Allyson Beedy's mother, Mary Tjaden, died in late May Tjaden made "her presence known" at her daughter's ...