A routine excavation lead to a surprise when a team uncovered a mysterious medieval tunnel in Wales. Originally, it did not appear on any map, but when technicians in the Wye Valley were called to remove an electric pole, they found something they’d never have imagined. “I had a phone call about two hours into […]
SHARJAH: ‘A Window to the Soul: Gibran Khalil Gibran’, the exhibition turns the spotlight on the globally loved and respected Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931) and celebrates his life and invaluable contributions as a visual artist through a showcase of 34 of his original works, was inaugurated by H.H. Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad […]
DUBAI: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has inaugurated the world’s first mosque to receive the platinum rating for green buildings by the Leadership for Energy and Environmental Design (LEED v4) from the US Green Buildings Council (USGBC) with 83 points. The mosque in Hatta can accommodate more than 600 worshippers on an area of […]
It’s quite an exciting time for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Following the successful retrieval of a sample of rock from Mars, they’ve now begun testing eVTOL aircraft as part of its Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign. It will continue till September 10, 2021, at Joby’s Electric Flight Base in California. They […]
Meet Pauline “Granny” Kana, a 95-year-old who has been making people laugh online with her hilarious antics for years now. It all started in 2013 while her grandson Ross Smith was still at the University of Dayton. Smith was just playing basketball with his grandmother having fun that he recorded and realized that it would […]
A landlord recently got a shock of his life when he found some tarantulas and a python that had been left behind by a tenant in Auburn, Maine. The landlord had to arrange for a rescuer to take the creatures away. The rescuer Drew Desjardins found that four of 19 tarantulas had died and that […]
Monkeys in Bali have resorted to raiding villagers’ homes in search of food as they have been deprived of their stable source of food i.e. tourists. Residents of Sangeh village have said that the macaques have been venturing out of the sanctuary about 500 meters away to loom around on their roofs waiting for the […]
After last month’s empty attempt, NASA’s Mars rover may have successfully gathered its first rock sample. Adam Steltzner, the Mars rover Perseverance rover’s chief engineer, called it a perfect core sample. “I’ve never been happier to see a hole in a rock,” he tweeted on Thursday. However, NASA later stated that it was waiting for […]
The University of Utah Hospital was treated to quite a performance that has gone viral on social media recently. The caption with the tweet read, “A moment of pure joy at University of Utah.” In the video, the gentleman dressed in blue scrubs is seen giving a graceful ballet performance as another person played the […]
With more plastic than personal protective equipment (PPE), Thailand is turning discarded bottles into protective clothing to be used in the fight against COVID-19. They take millions of plastic bottles, shred them, and then turn them into threads used to weave into fabrics that are eventually used to create PPEs. As the pandemic continues to […]
Close encounters in the middle of the ocean aren’t new, but it is quite the visual. One such recent incident found a paddleboarder side by side a giant southern right whale in Argentina’s Golfo Nuevo. The encounter was caught on camera at Puerto Madryn when the curious whale lightly nudged the woman on the paddleboard […]
