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Miranda Zamarelli and Dick Holmes of Dartmouth College review one of the early paper maps used to chart songbird territories in a patch of woods in central New Hampshire. Ari Daniel/For NPR hide caption toggle caption Ari Daniel/For NPR Miranda Zammarelli hikes into the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in central New Hampshire, pausing when she sees a tree with a pink ribbon wrapped around its trunk. Zammarelli, a behavioral ecologist and PhD candidate at Dartmouth College, knows that ribbon well. It marks the corner of a 25-acre field site first established in 1969 to map the territories of the songbirds…

A complicated stain on Pope Francis’s legacy is further explored in Nuns vs the Vatican, a sensitive and unsettling documentary following women whose sexual abuse allegations were long ignored by the Catholic church, and the broader system that protects and enables predators within.Nuns, which is directed by the Emmy winner Lorena Luciano and executive-produced by the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit star Mariska Hargitay and premiered at the Toronto film festival on Saturday, largely centres around Gloria Branciani and Mirjam Kovac, who are among dozens allegedly victimized by Marko Rupnik, a former Jesuit priest currently awaiting canonical trial for…

Bradford DoolittleSep 10, 2025, 07:00 AM ETCloseMLB writer and analyst for ESPN.com Former NBA writer and analyst for ESPN.com Been with ESPN since 2013Just as baseball’s postseason chase has entered the stretch run, those vying for individual honors are running out of time to make their cases.This is our fourth and final Awards Watch of the regular season, and with that in mind, we’ve changed up our usual format to narrow the focus of each race to the leading contenders in each category.What races are all but decided? Which ones remain very much up in the air? Let’s dig in.Most…

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he and his colleagues proposed a simple explanation for its cause: mothers’ “lack of genuine warmth” toward their children. Being raised by “refrigerator mothers,” the researchers explained, was what caused autistic people’s difficulties with social communication and sensory processing and their repetitive behaviors and interests.But in the 1970s studies of twins revealed that autism is highly heritable, not something that develops after birth. Thus began the search for the genes responsible. “We had rather simple views about what it might be” that caused autism, says Helen Tager-Flusberg, a professor…

Kitty O’Brien, an Irish protester, fears lasting injuries after being assaulted by German police at a Gaza rally.

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.ZDNET’s key takeawaysLossless audio is coming to Spotify.Lossless audio offers a more accurate and dynamic sound.The feature is slowly rolling out to all users with a paid plan.In 2021, Spotify teased the idea of a high-fidelity tier (hi-fi tier) that would offer lossless audio quality. Unfortunately, licensing issues caused the plan to be put on the back burner.Also: This new Spotify feature almost made me ditch Apple Music – but iOS 26 changed my mindHowever, there have been hints of the plan actually coming to fruition, thanks to…

About 18 months back, British youth were in the midst of a Prime craze. Pushed by YouTube influencers Logan Paul and KSI, this brightly coloured energy drink sparked a buying frenzy that left parents puzzled. Not only by the high price, or the resale sites that took advantage of scarcity and acted as a kind of ticket tout for the beverages, but also the desperation that children and teens apparently felt to consume this product. It’s not just Prime. Shops are full of energy drinks, often marketed at young people.In response to growing health concerns over their consumption, the UK…

Gene Gallagher’s rock band Villanelle has been drawing large crowds all across Europe ever since playing their first gigs in early 2024, and they’ve finally dropped their debut single, “Hinge.” It’s a blistering Nineties throwback that fuses together elements of Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, My Bloody Valentine, and Dinosaur Jr. “That’s my favorite sort of music, so there’s some of that in everything I write,” Gene Gallagher says in a statement. “‘Hinge’ is about paranoia derived from sleepless nights. I was probably hungover when I wrote it.” The trio is rounded out by guitarist Ben Taylor and bassist Jack Schiavo. “Gene…

And hopefully, one with a hopeful ending.I should have known something was amiss by how easy it was to get in. No crowds, no lines, no tickets at will call—no tickets at all, tickets not being necessary. But I didn’t realize just how amiss things were until I arrived at an empty sanctuary.An empty sanctuary in an empty synagogue. On Rosh Hashanah. Though I may not be the best Jew, I know this much: Synagogues ought to be packed on Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It’s when all we not-the-best Jews actually don our kippahs and show up to shul. On…

Lady Gaga’s Mayhem reenters five U.K. charts after the addition of new tracks, led by “The Dead Dance,” which also debuts top 10 on singles sales rankings. NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 8: Lady Gaga is seen on September 8, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Patricia Schlein/Star Max/GC Images)GC Images On Wednesday (September 3), Lady Gaga dropped three new tunes. The focus was “The Dead Dance,” which she wrote and recorded for Netflix’s hit show Wednesday, as she’s a part of season two. That tune was added to something of a deluxe edition of Gaga’s latest album Mayhem,…