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Meet Kanav Jain, the Scottish student who built a low-cost autonomous aircraft to deliver medicines to remote communities; it made him UK Young Engineer of the Year

Kanav Jain, a student from Broxburn, Scotland has been crowned UK Young Engineer of the Year for building a low-cost autonomous aircraft to deliver medicines to remote communities. His project titled ‘AeroAid: autonomous VTOL quadplane’ won at The Big Bang UK Young Scientists & Engineers Competition held at The Big Bang Fair.According to a report […]

In 1953, a California family bought a 58-acre berry farm for $3,500; decades later they reportedly refused a $90 million offer from Disney and kept farming beside Disneyland

The Fujishiges watched the area around their farm change as Disneyland took shape nearby. For decades, a small family farm stood next to Disneyland in Anaheim, California. While the theme park expanded around it, the Fujishige family continued to grow strawberries, vegetables and herbs on their land.The farm had become an unusual sight in an […]

Benjamin Netanyahu: ‘Don’t let them win’: Netanyahu’s party puts Zohran Mamdani alongside Iran, Hezbollah leaders on billboard

The billboard is the latest escalation in an increasingly bitter public feud between Netanyahu and Mamdani Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has stepped up its attack on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, placing his image alongside Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on […]

An unstable rock formation threatens the existence of an entire Swiss village of 1,300 residents as thawing glaciers destabilise the Alps

The Swiss village of Kandersteg could be destroyed by a landslide due to an unstable mountain rock formation, and scientists are linking the threat to thawing permafrost and glacier dynamics. The 1,300 residents of the village in Switzerland’s Bern canton live in the midst of a charming landscape including sharp peaks, white glaciers, steep green […]

In 1993, an art historian spotted a forgotten painting in a museum storeroom; 33 years later, its female creator was rediscovered in London | World News

In 1993, an art historian walked into a museum storeroom in Vienna and came across a large painting that had slipped almost entirely from view. The picture was not recognised as an important work by a woman artist. Instead, it became the first clue in a search that would stretch across more than three decades. […]

A rotating ‘garbage island’ spreads over 1.6 million sq km in the Pacific: Plastic averages 50 kilograms per square kilometre, and 75 to 86% of the debris comes from fishing gear

A floating and rotating ‘garbage island’ of an estimated area of 1.6 million square kilometres lies between Hawaii and California, according to a scientific estimate published in 2018. The area of the island is said to be larger than Para and nearly three times the size of metropolitan France. What exists here is a plastic […]

Meet Tina Jin, the 15-year-old Massachusetts student who turned animal bones into a new material for cleaning polluted water |

A 15-year-old Massachusetts student is exploring an unusual way to make polluted water cleaner: using discarded animal bones. Tina Jin, a student at Phillips Academy in Andover, developed a filtration system that uses ground cow, lamb or pig bones arranged in multiple layers to target different contaminants in water. Her research focuses on places where […]

Ancient humans in Israel ate snakes and lizards 15,000 years ago; 3,000 bones reveal what was on the menu | World News

At a cave on the slopes of Mount Carmel, thousands of small reptile bones accumulated alongside the remains of animals hunted and gathered by people more than 11,000 years ago. For years, their presence raised a straightforward but difficult question: were the snakes and lizards food, or had they ended up there through the activity […]

Imran Khan’s sister meets him after 9 months as Pakistan SC orders hospital transfer for jailed ex-PM

Former Pak PM is set to be shifted to a hospital after top court’s order over health concerns Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s sister Noreen Niazi met him at Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Tuesday after a gap of around nine months, following a Supreme Court order allowing weekly meetings between the former prime minister […]