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Vatican Warns Environmental Harm Can Become A Sin Against Creation
The Vatican has given environmental damage a distinctly religious dimension, arguing that harming nature can amount to a “sin against creation and against the Creator.” The wording appears in a new 29,000-word document from the International Theological Commission, released in Italian on September 2. The document does not create a new binding rule for Catholics,…
The Surprising Way Children Picture Scientists Today
For years, researchers asked children to draw a scientist and received almost the same answer every time: a man in a lab coat, often wearing glasses and surrounded by beakers. Now, after decades of research, that picture is changing, with children drawing women scientists far more often than they once did. The shift offers a…
Study Finds Intelligence May Affect How Men Treat Their Partners
A small study of 202 men has produced a finding that sounds brutal when reduced to a headline: lower intelligence scores were linked to a greater likelihood of certain harmful behaviors toward romantic partners. Before anyone starts treating an IQ test as a dating app screening tool, however, the researchers have urged people to take…
California Schools Could Close for Eid Under New Bill
California could soon formally recognize two of Islam’s most important holy days, a move that would give state workers greater flexibility to observe them and allow public schools and community colleges to close. The proposal has already passed the state Assembly by a 64-1 vote and is now awaiting further action in the Senate before…
Ancient Tombs and Garden Found Beneath Jerusalem Church Linked to Jesus Burial
For nearly 2,000 years, Christians have travelled to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre believing it stands at one of the most sacred locations in their faith. The site has long been associated with the crucifixion, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, but proving that tradition through archaeology has remained a far more complicated challenge.…
Researchers Tested Cat Loyalty and The Results Were Hard to Ignore
Cats have a reputation for watching human chaos unfold without lifting a paw. Researchers decided to put that stereotype to the test by creating a situation where a person clearly needed help finding something. A dishwashing sponge goes into a hiding place, and the cat sees exactly where it went. Then the person that cat…
Man Says He Met Jesus During A Near Death Experience And Saw A City In Heaven
Mike McKinsey was determined to make it to his son’s wedding despite having a 104-degree fever and severe abdominal pain. He had already spent three days battling what he thought was an illness. Then doctors discovered his appendix had ruptured. What McKinsey says happened during emergency surgery would leave him convinced he had briefly entered…
Scientists Found The Mushroom Behind The Tiny People Hallucinations
A mushroom served across parts of southwest China comes with an unusually specific warning: wait before eating it, or you might start seeing tiny people. That strange effect has been documented in hospital records and firsthand accounts for decades. Now researchers have sequenced dozens of specimens and discovered something even more puzzling. The usual mushroom…
Woman Discovers Hundreds of Bluetooth Speakers Scattered Across Mount Shasta
A strange sound coming from the slopes of Mount Shasta had already been unsettling enough. Then Karrie Ann Snure and her daughter, Jordan, discovered where it was coming from: a hillside scattered with somewhere between 100 and 200 solar-powered Bluetooth speakers, many of them partially buried in the ground and all broadcasting at once. Some…
Woman Turns Workplace Hair Ban Into Viral Wig Protest
For plenty of people, changing your hair colour is no different from picking out an outfit. It is a form of self-expression that says something about your personality before you even speak. Yet in many workplaces, especially customer-facing roles, appearance policies continue to draw a line between what is considered “professional” and what is not.…