Tue 27 July 2021: A massive meteor was spotted in several parts of southern Scandinavia, and a bright flash of light illuminated skies in southeast Norway for a few seconds, Associated Press reported. Many observers also said they heard a roaring sound afterward. The Norwegian Meteor Network said that it had analyzed and reviewed several […]
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Tue 27 July 2021: COVID-19, the impeachment of former US President Donald Trump, Brexit and even Megxit – have all occurred in the last 12 months, but there has also been an explosion of new billionaires around the world. The number of billionaires on Forbes’ 35th annual list of the world’s wealthiest rose to an […]
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Mon 26 July 2021: Several photographs and videos of strange and alien-like creatures captured by a Russian fisherman recently have gone viral on social media. Roman Fedortsov, 39, from Russia, works on commercial trawlers. He usually catches cod, haddock and mackerel but there are times when he comes across unusual-looking creatures. Fedortsov sometimes fishes up 3,300 feet below the surface to catch fish and ends up reeling some bizarre deep-sea creatures such as one-eyed fish, […]
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Sun 25 July 2021: Fossils are important ancient artifacts that increase the knowledge we have of today’s world. In that vein, a 150-million-year-old fossilized skeleton that was discovered in the mountains of southern Chile has now been assessed to be the ancestor of the semiaquatic reptiles of the modern wild known as crocodiles, the Argentine […]
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Sat 24 July 2021: As manufacturers in Southeast Asia battling against one of the world’s fiercest Covid-19 resurgences, some of the world’s leading footwear and apparel firms are seeing production plummet, Bloomberg reported. Many companies that produce products for global giants such as Nike Inc. and Adidas AG have suspended factories in Vietnam over the […]
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Tue 20 July 2021: Archaeologists have found rare remains of a military vessel and a Greek funerary complex in an ancient sunken city that once served as Egypt’s main Mediterranean port, officials said Monday. The find was made during underwater excavations at Thonis-Heracleion, a one-time bustling metropolis that sat on the edge of the Nile […]
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Sat 17 July 2021: TOKYO – A cascading waterfall made entirely of light pours onto a rock while azalea trees are illuminated in a glowing ripple at a digital art show in a Japanese forest. Light installations featuring blooming flowers, giant koi carp and traditional calligraphy come to life after dark, creating an otherworldly ambiance […]
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Sat 17 July 2021: An international study of 55 countries has shown a marked increase in the number of overweight women globally, with wealthy, educated and urban women heavier than their counterparts. PhD candidate Md. Mehedi Hasan from The University of Queensland’s Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR) said the number of overweight women increased in 50 countries in 1990 […]
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Thu 15 July 2021: Camera traps used to monitor wildlife in Turkey are also being used to capture illegal poachers, according to a report yesterday by Daily Sabah. The General Directorate of Nature Protection and National Parks (DKMP), which coordinates the camera trap installation, currently operates 3,150 camera traps across the country. Primarily used for research, […]
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Wed 14 July 2021: A sealed, mint condition copy of the video game Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for more than $1.5m (£1.1m) If you bought video games when you were younger you might be sitting on a gold mine, if two recent auctions of mint-condition classic games in the U.S. are any indication. A […]
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