For many families, trying to find fun activities during quarantine has been challenging. One Canadian father found the perfect project for his son to work on that will keep the neighborhood dogs entertained, too.
University of Michigan says it shut down a campus library for two days after discovering venomous spiders
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It's like something straight out of a nightmare -- venomous spiders were found inside a University of Michigan library, causing the building to be shut down for two days last month. The "small number" of venomous Me...
Atlanta creates the nation’s largest free food forest with hopes of addressing food insecurity
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When a dormant pecan farm in the neighborhoods of south Atlanta closed, the land was soon rezoned and earmarked to become townhouses. But when the townhouses never came to fruition and with the lot remaining in for...
A 10-year-old boy and family friend cleaned snow off 80 hospital workers’ cars during storm
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Just call them snow angels. A Rhode Island fifth-grader and a family friend swept snow off dozens of hospital workers' cars during Monday's nor'easter to thank them for all their hard work during the coronavirus pan...
Biden tells House Democrats to ‘stick together’ in Covid-19 relief push, signals willingness to narrow stimulus checks
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President Joe Biden told House Democrats on a conference call Wednesday he is open to narrowing the distribution of $ 1,400 stimulus checks in his Covid-19 relief proposal to focus on poor and middle-class people, ...
Following controversial remarks by Tanzania’s president, WHO urges country to stick to science in fight against Covid-19
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging officials in Tanzania to follow science in the fight against the coronavirus, after the country's president said the approved vaccines are "dangerous" and that "not all ...
Some dogs can learn new words after hearing them only four times
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Some talented dogs can learn new words after hearing them only four times, according to a new study. Most dogs do not learn words unless they are extensively trained -- but a team of researchers has found that some ...
Dogs likely migrated to the Americas with humans over 15,000 years ago, study says
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Dogs have been following humans for thousands of years. Archaeological and genetic data has revealed that dogs accompanied humans when they were migrating to the Americas from East Asia, according to a study publis...
Two dogs from California just set the world record for most tricks performed in a minute
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Can you do 28 tricks in a minute? Two border collies named Wish and Halo can, and they have set the world record. Guinness World Records announced Thursday that the border collies performed the most tricks by two do...
The science of how to stick to New Year’s resolutions and truly change your habits
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Next year will be a crucial year for Erika Kirgios as she works to complete her doctorate, publish academic papers and try to land a faculty job at a university. Not surprisingly, one of her New Year's resolutions i...
FDA issues pet food alert after 28 dogs are reported dead from toxin
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The Food and Drug Administration is alerting pet owners about high levels of aflatoxin in some pet foods after 28 dogs reportedly died and 8 others were sickened. The pet food containing the toxin has been identifie...
Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 by sniffing human sweat, study suggests
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Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 by sniffing human sweat, according to a proof-of-concept study published on Thursday. Detection dogs are already a common sight in airports and some other public places -- usu...