Items recovered include fossils, paintings, ancient coins, ceramics and jewelry

When this publication first appeared five decades ago, it was happy to join the fray

From doodle sessions to zoo tours, here's a week of online activities to keep your kids learning during the school shutdown

The 72-year-old animal was the third oldest in the North American population

Learn hip-hop dance or do citizen science without leaving home this week, thanks to the internet's many intrepid artists and educators

Schools are shuttered, but kids can dance with New York's Ballet Hispánico and listen to a story from a certain former First Lady

Why not use quarantine as an opportunity to have your homeschoolers master woodworking or engine repair?

The projects are helping Australia's drought-stricken rural towns find new life as outdoor art galleries

Stanley Lake with McGown Peak in the background.

Morning Routines at the bund. At the bund in shanghai every morning a group of old people practice Tai Chi, an ancient marital arts form in china.

This photo was taken from the Tunnel View at Yosemite National Park. The photo is of Bridalveil Fall consumed by smoke due to controlled burning on the Yosemite Valley floor.

Historian Ellen Carol DuBois chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women in her new book

In 1799, Alexander von Humboldt set foot in the jungles of Cumana, in present-day Venezuela. What ensued was a detailed scientific mission to learn more about the natural world.

The Chicago White Sox were heavy favorites going into the 1919 World Series. But they were defeated by the Cincinnati Reds - and it soon became clear that the game was rigged

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In a written decision released Thursday, a panel of three appeal court judges said the judge who granted the award to McCaw North Drilling and Blasting Ltd. misinterpreted a clause in the contract for the cleanup.

The Nunavut government says there is no set limit on how much money it is prepared to spend on hotels for residents required to isolate before they return home.

A trio of young northern violinists recently joined their contemporaries across Canada for a project that aims to bring people together through music — while being apart.

Alcohol industry groups were successful in getting the Yukon government to pull labels warning of the connection between alcohol and cancer from liquor store shelves, but the strategy may have ultimately backfired, researchers suggest.

New Brunswickers needn't worry about all the buzz around 'murder hornets' because they wouldn't survive the cold winters, says biologist.

Seven people were displaced by a fire early Saturday on the north end of Saint John.

The premier’s office confirmed the news in an email statement, blaming visibility issues under "very specific lighting conditions."

Parents-to-be who will have their new child delivered at the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre have to follow a different set of guidelines than found at many other hospitals across Ontario.

It's been more than a week since there were any new or active cases of COVID-19 in the catchment area for the Northwestern Health Unit (NWHU), and staff can not focus increasing testing.

An industrial building in Thunder Bay was slightly damaged in a fire late Thursday afternoon.

Safer Internet Day (SID) is an international education and awareness-raising effort spanning more than 100 countries around the globe to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young people across the world.

Mauritius is among one of the very first countries where government has taken keen interest to protect children and youngsters on the Internet.  In this context, a Child Online Safety Action Plan was developed by the National Computer Board (NCB) and endorsed by the cabinet in 2009.  Following the aproval of the action plan, number of activities have been started on Child Online Safety since 2009 including organisation of the Safer Internet Day. 

This year is the 6th edition of Safer Internet Day which will be celebrated in Mauritius. On this occasion, CERT-MU, a division of the National Computer Board is organising several activities.  The activities are as follows:

• A half day workshop with theme "Let's create a better Internet together" in collaboration with the Ministry of Technology, Communication and Innovation and the Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research.  The proposed workshop is targeted towards State and Private secondary school students to sensitise them on the impact of threats and consequences that improper use of the Internet may have on the youth.

• Awareness sessions on “Internet Safety” will be carried out for secondary school students (State and Private) in all four school zones of the country.  These sessions will highlight issues like sexting, sextortion, cyber bullying, online predators and identity theft etc. 

• Organisation of awareness sessions on “Dangers of the Internet” for secondary school teachers (State and Private) in all four school zones during the school holidays. Trainings on the Dangers of the Internet and how to help youngsters choose a better way of socialising in the virtual world will be organised for the teachers of  secondary schools.

• Awareness sessions for Parents, Senior Citizens and House Wives on "Secure Usage of Internet".  Parents, Grandparents and House Wives need to be aware of the dangers on the Internet and how to protect their kids online.  An awareness session will be organised to address this issue with parents, in collaboration with the PTA of secondary schools.  The Senior Citizens and House Wives sessions will take place in NCB cyber caravans and community welfare centres. 

• Dissemination of brochures on "Child Online Protection" to the students and teachers.

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Long-term care homes in Eastern Health's jurisdiction are allowing for people to again visit their relatives by windows, just in time for Mother's Day. 

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There are now 176 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in northeastern Ontario, and seven deaths.

Visitors to the 1900 Paris Exposition would have had the opportunity to view an extraordinary display of photographs, charts, publications and other items meant to demonstrate the progress and resilience of African Americans in the United States, only a few decades after the abolition of slavery. The materials were assembled by African American intellectuals Thomas J. […]

Purified RNA may need to be concentrated by precipitation for downstream applications. Precipitation of RNA with ethanol (or isopropanol) is the standard method to recover RNA from aqueous solutions.

Using a cross-country sample of bank-dependent public fi rms we study the international spillovers of a change in banking regulation on corporate borrowing. For identi cation we examine how US rms' liabilities vis-a-vis banks, non-bank lenders and bond markets evolve after an increase in capital requirements implemented by the European Banking Authority (EBA) in 2011. We find that US firms experience a reduction in credit lines but not in term loans from EU banks.

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Recent literature has highlighted that international trade is mostly priced in a few key vehicle currencies, and is increasingly dominated by intermediate goods and global value chains (GVCs). Taking these features into account, this paper reexamines the business cycle dynamics of international trade and its relationship with monetary policy and exchange rates.

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A prototype deployed in San Francisco Bay imagines the underside of a floating building as an upside-down artificial reef

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