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Men who are more romantically or sexually interested in their female friends tend to pay more for shared expenses, and women interpret this behavior as a sign of interest in marriage, according to a study published in 2016. evolution and human behavior. Heterosexual friendships are often described as “just friends” relationships, but they can include attraction, romantic potential, or sexual interest. Many people report feeling attraction within a heterosexual friendship, and many romantic relationships begin as friendships. This raises an important question. If interest in marriage is sometimes present in friendships, how is that interest expressed or detected? Ryan T.…
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie has supported President Donald Trump’s quest to give the United States an edge in artificial intelligence, but local officials in Guthrie’s deep-red Kentucky district have opposed building the data centers needed to make the AI work. The issue is emblematic of the pressure many lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are under regarding data centers, but Guthrie’s comments are particularly noteworthy because he holds a lot of power on the issue. “I hear that from people, and I think that’s what I think. I think it’s legitimate to be concerned,” Guthrie said…
In a recent conversation, someone told me that they have stopped checking their phones in the morning. Not because nothing was happening, but because everything was happening. They described the feeling as standing under a constant waterfall of bad news. This experience is by no means isolated. According to the Reuters Institute’s 2025 Digital News Report, 69 per cent of Canadians now avoid the news at least occasionally. Globally, 40% say they do the same thing at least sometimes or often, an all-time high. People shared consistent reasons for this. The news made you feel bad, overwhelmed, and powerless to…
Investigating cancer risk at Green Bay PCB cleanup siteThe Milwaukee Journal Sentinel spent two years investigating worker safety concerns at Green Bay’s Lower Fox River PCB Remediation Project.Local officials and environmental groups say stronger oversight of toxic waste cleanup projects is needed after a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigation revealed lax protections for workers at the world’s largest polychlorinated biphenyl cleanup site.At the Lower Fox River cleanup site where Scott Meisenheimer, 66, worked in 2013, an investigation found that contractor Tetra Tech failed to equip employees with minimum levels of personal protective equipment and enforce decontamination standards.After working in the field,…
Ben Fertig of the Severn River Association stands along the Severn River at Wardall Community Beach in Annapolis. dave harp Editor’s note: This article is part of a series. our waterwaysexamines the health of some of the small streams and rivers in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. To suggest a waterway, please contact Jeremy Cox. jcox@bayjournal.com. Despite more than 40 years of cleanup efforts, the Chesapeake Bay still suffers from ecological problems, including massive algae blooms, oxygen-depleted waters, and oyster populations that are a fraction of their historic size.Perhaps the efforts were too ad hoc?U.S. Rep. Sarah Elfreth, a Maryland Democrat…
New research from the SETI Institute suggests that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence may be facing unexpected challenges. The same stellar activity that shapes the environment around distant planets could also make it much more difficult to detect alien radio signals. Many of SETI’s efforts are looking for very narrow radio signals because they are unlikely to be produced by natural cosmic processes. However, researchers have discovered that these signals can become distorted before leaving their home star system. How stellar activity distorts radio signals For decades, SETI scientists have been looking for narrow spikes in radio frequencies that could…
In the five months since jet fuel began leaking into Piscataway Creek from Joint Base Andrews, no agency has tested the water or sediment about 20 miles downstream, where the creek empties into the Potomac River and shoreline communities and where anglers flock to fish and boat along its banks. The leak was discovered on Dec. 11 at Joint Base Andrews in Prince George’s County. Of the estimated 32,000 gallons that spilled into the headwaters of the creek, only 10,000 gallons were recovered, with the remaining 22,000 gallons spilling into the environment. Environmental leaders and activists have criticized the base…
By Will Atwater, North Carolina Health News June 16, 2026 Written by Will Atwater Two years ago, Emily Donovan took to the stage in Fayetteville to introduce then-Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Michael Regan. Regan, who was director of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality before being tapped by the Biden administration to lead the EPA, returned to the region in 2017 where the public first learned that the Cape Fear River was contaminated with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and issued the first-ever national drinking water standards for six of the rivers. This 2024 rule established legally enforceable limits…
Women are more likely than men to report poor sleep, even though objective measurements show that women sleep better in some ways, according to a new study from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute. “This is a paradox, but we have found a possible explanation why men and women perceive sleep quality so differently,” says Thorbjörn Åkerstedt, professor emeritus at the Karolinska Institute’s Department of Clinical Neuroscience.Researchers investigated the differences in sleep between men and women, both in terms of objective measures and perceived sleep quality. 238 women and 238 men in Sweden, aged 29 to 85, recorded their sleep at home over…
Researchers at Monash University have identified a promising new approach to tackling Alzheimer’s disease. Laboratory studies have found that copper-based drugs not only reduce the accumulation of toxic proteins associated with the disease, but also improve long-term spatial memory. The survey results are ACS Chemical Neurosciencesuggesting that the compound Cu(ATSM) may help restore important functions of the blood-brain barrier. By restoring a key waste removal system, this treatment could open the door to new treatments targeting neurovascular dysfunction, a key driver of Alzheimer’s disease. Repairing the brain’s waste removal system Alzheimer’s disease is associated with the accumulation of amyloid beta,…