The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce has spurred another debate on the worth of teaching cursive handwriting in the digital age by updating its five-year-old teaching guidance for ...

Is learning cursive writing essential for developing young minds, or is it an outdated skill being championed by nostalgic policymakers? The question sparked a lively and personal debate on a ...

Bird flu has spread widely in poultry, causing egg shortages. Virus spillover has occurred in various mammal species, including humans. H5N1 does not currently have the ability to spread human to ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of ...

Bird flu has ripped through the animal kingdom for the past few years now, killing countless birds and crossing into an alarming number of mammals. Yet people remain largely untouched. Even though ...

US bird populations continue alarming decline 2025 State of the Birds Report calls for urgent conservation action Date: March 13, 2025 Source: Cornell University Summary: The 2025 U. S. State of ...

Food and agriculture experts from the United Nations issued a warning about a growing bird flu crisis amid widespread poultry infections and spillover into people and animals worldwide.

Pitch determines how high or low a sound is — for example, the chirp of a bird versus the growl of a dog. Harmonic structure defines tonal quality, distinguishing a piano note from a frog’s croak.

Bird flu infections in domestic cats remain concerning, and there have been a few relevant new developments on the issue. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection ...

These are among 42 U.S. bird species that have been placed on “red alert” by the conservation initiative Road to Recovery—and included in State of the Birds 2025, a new report released by a ...

Also the red-winged blackbird and the common grackle. Cornell University's Bird lab hosts a BirdCast Migration Dashboard that gives daily summaries of radar-based nocturnal bird migration.