Fri 08 October 2021: Representatives of the City of London municipal authority on Thursday voted in favour of retaining in their Guildhall ceremonial home two statues linked to the transatlantic slave trade. To clarify how they benefitted from the slave trade, councillors decided to place plaques to the statues of William Beckford, a former lord […]
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Fri 08 October 2021: According to a research released Thursday, images from Mars illustrate how water helped form the Red Planet’s landscape billions of years ago, and provide clues that will lead the search for ancient life. The Perseverance rover from NASA landed at Jezero crater in February, where scientists believe a long-gone river once […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: Ndakasi, a mountain gorilla from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park, has reappeared in the news. The update will break your heart this time. Due to a long illness, the 14-year-old gorilla died. Ndakasi became famous in 2019 because she photobombed a snapshot of her forest ranger. Back then, […]
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Thu 07 October 2021: On Wednesday, more than two dozen artworks of renowned boxer Muhammad Ali were auctioned off at Bonhams in New York for about $1 million. According to the BBC, the champion boxer auctioned a total of 26 artworks, including a rare collection of drawings, sketches, and paintings. Sting Like a Bee, one […]
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Wed 06 October 2021: The discovery of genetic traces in the body of a 7,000-year-old teenager provides the first evidence that early people in Indonesia mixed with individuals from far away Siberia much earlier than previously assumed. According to the Reuters news agency, the findings of a study published in the scientific journal Nature in […]
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Mon 04 October 2021: According to Artprice’s annual report released on Monday, contemporary art auctions rebounded to an all-time high of $2.7 billion last year, bolstered by internet sales and the emergence of digital art in the form of “NFTs.” Sales increased between June 2020 and June 2021, after falling by a third the previous […]
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Sat 02 October 2021: Doctors in Lithuania removed over a kilogram of nails and screws from the stomach of a man who began ingesting metal objects after quitting drinking. The man, who was not identified for patient privacy reasons, was brought to a hospital in Klaipeda, a Baltic port city, with acute abdominal pain. Metal […]
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Sat 02 October 2021: According to Anatoly Kochnev, a biologist at the Magadan Institute for Biological Problems of the North under the Russian Academy of Sciences, the number of conflicts between polar bears and people has increased in recent years as climate change forces the animals to move closer to human settlements in search of […]
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Fri 01 October 2021: ‘Rani’ is the world’s shortest cow, according to Guinness World Records. The cow was only 26 pounds and stood 50.8 centimetres (20 inches) tall. Rani died on August 19, 2021, from stomach edema. Rani became famous in July of this year when its videos and photographs went viral online. After the […]
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Thu 30 September 2021: It has been more than 800 years since the birth of Islam’s great Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet, philosopher and theologian who was born on Sept. 30, 1207, but Rumi’s influence has never lost its touch with the lands that he blessed. As such a special ceremony was […]
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