The Ross Fire burns in Palo Pinto County, Texas. (Photo: AP) A fast-moving wildfire in north-central Texas has destroyed a family home and business property, burned buildings at a youth camp and forced evacuations across sparsely populated ranch country west of Fort Worth, while local ranchers opened barns for animals needing evacuation.The Ross Fire began…
The remarks came after a division bench of Justices JJ Munir and Indrajit Shukla dismissed the student’s petition challenging the school’s refusal to allow her to wear a scarf over her uniform. NEW DELHI: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday criticised the Allahabad High Court’s dismissal of a minor student’s petition seeking permission to wear…
Representative Image of the Grand Canyon revealing two billion years of geological history and missing rock layers (AI-generated image) The Grand Canyon exposes roughly 2 billion years of Earth’s geological history, but more than half of that record is missing. Geologists call the enormous gap the Great Unconformity, a boundary where rocks representing more than…
CJP leaders; AISA president Neha Bora NEW DELHI: The All India Students’ Association (AISA) on Wednesday announced its support for the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) proposed September 5 protest march in Delhi, demanding the withdrawal of FIRs against students and an inquiry into alleged pellet and bullet firing during an earlier march to Parliament on…
Kevin Liu showcases a geometry-powered robot that moves without motors or controls, PC: Aaron Nathans At Princeton Engineering, a team led by Glaucio Paulino has answered a question few people ever think to ask: what makes a ketchup bottle cap snap open and stay open rather than flopping shut? The hinge on a typical flip-top…
A San Francisco woman has given a glimpse of what home cleaning could look like in the age of humanoid robots after hiring one for $30 an hour to work inside her apartment. Gianna Capezio booked a one-hour cleaning visit from San Francisco startup Tau Robotics, with the humanoid robot vacuuming, making her bed and…
Riya Velhal, Founder & President of StratScholar (Image Credit: StratScholar) For many high-school students, becoming interested in research is easier than figuring out how to actually begin. Finding a mentor, understanding research methods, and knowing how to publish or share completed work can be difficult without the right guidance. Riya Velhal, an Oregon high-school junior,…
SpaceX has officially announced Starbase, a new $100+ billion spaceport in South Louisiana near Pecan Island. (Photo: @SawyerMerritt) SpaceX plans to build a $100 billion, 125,000-acre (50,585-hectare) Starship launch complex on Pecan Island in US’ southern Louisiana, an area that serves as protected habitat for dozens of migratory bird species and whose receding wetlands help…
The incident occurred at a gas chemical complex in the Amur region (representative image) Six Chinese nationals were killed and nine others remain missing after a fire broke out at a gas chemical complex in Russia’s far eastern Amur region, according to the plant.The fire broke out on Tuesday at the Amur Gas Chemical Complex…
When people in the small Scottish town of Langholm set out to raise £6 million, they were not simply trying to buy a piece of countryside. Their campaign secured 10,500 acres and helped create the community-owned Tarras Valley Nature Reserve, turning an ambitious local vision into one of the region’s largest community-led conservation efforts. Now,…