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It was nighttime on Kooragang Island north of Sydney, Australia, when the high-pitched shrieking started. John Gould, an ecologist at the University of Newcastle conducting postdoctoral research on the declining population of green and golden bell f

“That’s where Hurt Village was.” Michael Oher was pointing to the site of a now-demolished housing project where he lived with his mother, who was addicted to drugs, and, at various times, as many as seven of his 11 siblings. It was an overcast Mond

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As printed textbooks increasingly gather dust in classroom bookshelves, a new and expansive survey published on Thursday finds that social studies teachers are turning to digital sources and primary documents from the nation’s past. While the most p

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In the 1960s, Mabel Addis was an elementary-school teacher in a small town in New York State when she w

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Hurricane Helene isn’t just a threat to the safety of the people in its path. Depending on how much damage the storm causes50jili, it could also threaten Florida’s insurance market — and recent research suggests that market is dangerously vulnerable

Mayor Eric Adams has been uniquely unpopular, with some of the lowest polling numbers for a New York City mayor ever recorded. So this week, when he became the first mayor in the city’s modern history to be indicted, people across the country and po