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January 23, 2025
1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs
EDMONTON, Canada — It was a simple, sunny afternoon on Canada’s Prince Edward Island as Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set off to walk their dog. Noticing a stray leash lying in the yard, Velaidum briefly stopped to pick it up before setting off on a quick walk.Minutes later, a meteorite pummeled the walkway — exactly where Velaidum had been standing — and a Ring doorbell camera captured the entire incident on video.“I never stop on that spot — ever,” Velaidum told CNN about the incident, which occurred in July 2024. “And looking back on it now, we noticed, because of the video, if I had stayed on that very spot for just two minutes longer, I absolutely would have been struck and probably killed by this meteor.”Months later, after undergoing lab analysis that...
January 23, 2025
Doorbell camera catches rare footage of meteorite striking home’s front walkway
WASHINGTON — Every week, Rajesh PN Rao, a computer scientist, gets emails from people claiming they've cracked an ancient script that has stumped scholars for generations.These self-proclaimed codebreakers — ranging from engineers and IT workers to retirees and tax officers — are mostly from India or of Indian origin living abroad. All of them are convinced they've deciphered the script of the Indus Valley Civilisation, a blend of signs and symbols."They claim they've solved it and that the 'case is closed'," says Rao, Hwang Endowed Professor at the University of Washington and author of peer-reviewed studies on the Indus script.Adding fuel to the race, MK Stalin, the chief minister of southern India's Tamil Nadu state, recently upped the stakes,...
January 17, 2025
A million-dollar challenge to crack the script of early Indians
January 17, 2025
Nepal's leader says it has too many tigers
January 14, 2025
Rare comet may be visible for first time in 160,000 years
December 17, 2024
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again
December 11, 2024
Whale makes epic migration, astonishing scientists
December 06, 2024
Nasa delays astronaut flight around the Moon
November 15, 2024
NASA worries space station leaks in Russian module are potentially ‘catastrophic’
November 14, 2024
World’s largest coral found in the Pacific
