At the centre of Beijing sits a place that once functioned as a city within a city. From above, the Forbidden City appears orderly and measured, enclosed by walls and surrounded by water. On the ground, however, it reveals something more complicated: a carefully managed world designed to organise power, family life, ritual, and government […]
Australia does not simply have a large number of lizards. In many regions, they dominate the landscape almost quietly, moving through scrub, rocks, and dry grass in numbers that become obvious only after spending time there. The continent has an unusually high concentration of reptile species, particularly skinks, compared with much of the world. Scientists […]
Tulare Lake has made a surprising comeback, once known as Pa’ashi by the Tachi Yokut tribe. This rare event shows how a long-gone terminal lake can reclaim its original basin. It used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi until it was drained in the late 1800s for farming purposes. In 2023, […]
At least 191 people were killed in road accidents in Thailand in the first three days of the country’s annual Songkran festival, widely known as the “world’s largest water fight”, marking a grim start to the celebrations this year.According to the New York Post, the Thai New Year festival, typically marked by week-long water festivities […]
The Salar de Uyuni – the contiguous remnants of an ancient lake, covering more than 10,000 square kilometres in the Andes of Bolivia, South America – has now become a vast and flat white salt pan. In the rainy season, when water collects on the impervious crystalline crust of the salt pan and creates a […]
France has the highest number of time zones of any country in the world, with a total of 12 time zones. This includes both the mainland as well as the overseas French territories, which are located in different parts of the world.While the mainland of France uses Central European Time, which is equivalent to UTC+1, […]
. Iran struck Qatar’s Ras Laffan Industrial City, one of the world’s largest gas export hubs, on Wednesday, causing heavy damage to the key facility.QatarEnergy said in a statement early Thursday that “several of its Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facilities were the subject of missile attacks, causing sizeable fires and extensive further damage” after the […]
A remarkable geological feature was discovered beneath the Black Sea- an enormous underwater river complete with waterfalls, rapids, and floodplains. The river flows through the Bosphorus Strait and is fed by very salty and dense Mediterranean water. According to Professor Daniel Parsons, former Lecturer at the University of Leeds and one of the researchers who […]
Astronomers have created the largest-ever three-dimensional map of hydrogen emission from the early universe, offering a new view of cosmic structures formed billions of years ago. The map covers a period roughly 9 to 11 billion years in the past, during the universe’s “cosmic noon,” when star formation activity reached its peak. The map was […]
Iran Attack Sparks Jebel Ali Port Blaze in Dubai? Iran-US-Israel Conflict and DP World Epstein Files Collide Amid the escalating US–Israel war on Iran and its widening ripple effects across the Middle East, one of the UAE’s cornerstones of global trade, Jebel Ali Port in Dubai, has temporarily halted operations as a precautionary security measure. […]
