On Tuesday (Jan. 19), one of the world’s driest places awoke to an otherworldly dusting of frost. In the Sahara Desert of northwestern Algeria, just outside the town of Ain Sefra, sand dunes were streaked with ice crystals as far as the eye could see. Local photographer Karim Bouchetata captured the unusual weather in pictures […]
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Preservation of figure carved from single piece of wood is incredible, say archaeologists An extremely rare, carved wooden figure from the early Roman era has been unearthed in a waterlogged ditch in Buckinghamshire, the latest extraordinary find in the UK’s biggest ever archaeological dig along the 150-mile HS2 rail route. The 67cm-tall figure is carved […]
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Mission is step closer to exploring most energetic and exotic celestial objects in universe Nasa’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) has successfully extended its 4-metre boom arm to assume its operational configuration. Launched on 9 December atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, IXPE is a space observatory designed […]
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They’re difficult to find, a pain to grow and lose their sexy aroma within a week Truffles — the non-chocolate kind, sorry — are edible fungi, like mushrooms. Unlike mushrooms, they grow underground near tree roots and the best truffles are wildly, insanely, wait-how-much? expensive, sometimes as much as thousands of dollars per pound. Truffles are […]
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China’s ‘artificial sun’ set a new world record on Thursday by running for 1,056 seconds at high plasma temperature, the longest duration for an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) fusion energy reactor, Xinhua News Agency reported. EAST already scored a previous record in May, running for 101 seconds at a temperature of 120 million degrees […]
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A tiger was found dead in Chhindwara of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, taking this year’s toll in the state to 44. According to reports, two days ago, a tigress died in the state’s Dindori area allegedly due to poisoning. As many as 126 tigers died in India in 2021, the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) […]
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