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As large portions of the western and central United States along with regions across Western Europe and Central Asia face dangerous and record-breaking heatwaves, a 14-year-old Arizona teen’s quick thinking has created headlines and awareness. An Arizona fire department will be formally honouring Royal Cothrun who helped save an elderly woman with dementia after she…

For decades, marine scientists have watched whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), the world’s biggest fish, from boats and while snorkelling. They could only catch glimpses of the world’s largest fish gliding through tropical waters. It turns out that what they have observed until now was only the trailer. A new study published in the journal Marine…

For decades, solving the world’s hardest mathematical problems has been considered a uniquely human pursuit, requiring imagination, persistence and the ability to explore ideas beyond established methods. Artificial intelligence, meanwhile, has largely been viewed as a tool for computation and analysis. A Harvard mathematician’s collaboration with an experimental AI model has gained widespread interest after…

Kick Streamer Sweatergxd Gets Punched by Rampage Jackson After Crossing a Personal Boundary. (Image via X/@Kick_Champ) A tense moment involving MMA legend Rampage Jackson and Kick streamer Sweatergxd is making rounds after a party interaction turned physical within seconds. A video from the gathering shows the two meeting before things suddenly take a different direction….

In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of what is now Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Within a single human lifetime, most of it was gone. Soviet planners had redirected its two feeder rivers to irrigate cotton fields across Central Asia, and by the 1980s the lake…

A Michelin-starred restaurant in South Korea has found itself at the centre of an unusual legal battle after prosecutors sought a one-year prison sentence for its owner over the use of ants as a dessert garnish. Authorities allege the restaurant served around 49,000 imported ants over four years despite ants not being among the insect…

Feeding astronauts on long-duration missions remains one of the toughest problems in space exploration, since food cannot simply be grown the same way it is on Earth. A team of researchers at Japan’s Okayama University of Science has been investigating whether seafood, one of the oldest and most widely eaten foods on the planet, could…

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, cities around the world are searching for ways to stay cooler without relying solely on energy-intensive air conditioning. Medellín, Colombia, has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated examples of nature-based urban cooling. Through its Green Corridors programme, the city planted around 880,000 trees and more than…

Rows of identical Disney-style castles rise from the hills near the Turkish town of Mudurnu, creating a scene that looks more like a fantasy film set than a real housing development. Known as Burj Al Babas, the ambitious project was envisioned as a luxury village for wealthy international buyers, particularly from the Middle East. Around…

Coastal flooding that was once considered unusual is becoming a more familiar part of life in many parts of the world, and rising sea levels appear to be a major reason why. A new international study suggests that the gradual increase in ocean height has fundamentally changed how often exceptionally high sea levels occur, making…