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A record number of female candidates stood in the 2024 Japanese election. Richard A. Brooks/AFP via Getty Images

Business

Japanese women have long sacrificed their surnames in marriage − politics...

Staff Writer - April 27, 2025

Linda E. White, Middlebury For centuries, women entering marriage in Japan have been bound by the Confucian notion of...

EXPLORING NATURE

Meditation can make us more aware of the miracle of existence of everything in this world. Anna Sunderland Engels

Art

Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided...

Staff Writer - December 4, 2025

Jeremy David Engels, Penn State The late Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh often emphasized the interconnectedness of everything...

Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M. Kornmesser, CC BY-SA

Most normal matter in the universe isn’t found in planets, stars...

December 4, 2025

Carbon capture and storage projects capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial facilities and power plants and pipe them underground to geological formations. Nopphinan/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Google plans to power a new data center with fossil fuels,...

December 2, 2025

Members of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas meet at Pink’s restaurant at Knott’s Berry Farm before the holiday rush in 2009. Business Wire via AP

What makes a true Santa is inside – and comes with...

November 29, 2025

A person sits in a field of crops after a raid by U.S. immigration agents. Blake Fagan/AFP via Getty Images

As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food waste

November 28, 2025