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Electronic music pioneer Moby created his latest album as musical therapy for his lifelong anxiety and insomnia. The result is a collection of quiet, beautiful tracks designed to bring calm in troubled times.
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More than 3,100 literature lovers flocked to New Bedford, Massachusetts, to hear Herman Melville's classic novel read aloud for 25 straight hours. The 30-year tradition celebrates America's greatest novel in the city where Melville himself once set sail.
Santa Clara University's business school just made career advancement accessible to everyone with a brand new leadership certificate course that costs zero dollars. The program joins expanded free business education reaching learners worldwide.
Santa Clara University's free online business school just launched professional development courses anyone can take. The program now teaches leadership, project management, and career skills alongside entrepreneurship basics.
Hyundai is pioneering new technology in South Korea that could detect electric vehicle battery problems up to 30 minutes before they catch fire. The innovation could make EVs significantly safer while extending battery life.
A termite with a head shaped like a sperm whale has stunned researchers exploring South American rainforests. The discovery reveals there's still so much life on Earth waiting to be found.
Scientists finally captured video proof of sperm whales headbutting each other, confirming legends told by 19th-century sailors. The surprising footage reveals younger whales, not adults, engage in this powerful behavior.
After centuries of sailors' stories about whales ramming each other, scientists finally caught the behavior on camera using drones. The footage reveals playful young male sperm whales bumping heads, possibly as a way to learn and grow before leaving their family groups.
In the shadow of Mount Fuji, Toyota is building a real city where residents live alongside autonomous vehicles and robots, testing tomorrow's technology today. The ambitious Woven City opened last fall with 50 households already calling this living laboratory home.
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Researchers captured the first-ever video of sperm whales working together like midwives to deliver a calf and teach it to breathe. The footage reveals a type of cooperation never seen before outside of primates.
After 200 years of speculation, scientists finally filmed sperm whales doing what their massive heads seemed designed for: ramming each other head-on. Drone footage from the Azores solved one of marine biology's longest-standing mysteries.
Researchers captured the first detailed footage of a sperm whale birth and discovered something remarkable: 11 whales worked together to help deliver and support the newborn, including half who weren't even related to the mother. This rare glimpse into whale society suggests humans aren't the only species where mothers receive help during childbirth.
A squid from a whale's stomach in 1955 sat in museum collections for nearly seven decades before scientists realized it represents an entirely new family of ocean life. The discovery proves our oceans still hold major surprises hiding in plain sight.