A Southern California climate-tech start-up says it has produced an estimated 19 million gallons of additional precipitation over Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula in just three hours, using drones to seed clouds with silver iodide. The striking claim comes from a research operation conducted by an Alaska based company on 23rd August 2026. The company says its…
Iranian operatives reportedly conducted surveillance on PM Netanyahu’s son Yair in Florida as part of an assassination plot, prompting him to flee back to Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair Netanyahu, was the target of an alleged Iranian assassination plot while he was living in South Florida, according to a Newsmax report.The…
In Houston, the heat is part of the setting. During the FIFA Fan Festival, though, some of the infrastructure around the event had a rather different experience of the Texas summer. Roofs treated with a thin cooling film stayed dramatically cooler than nearby untreated metal surfaces, even while sitting beneath direct sunlight.The material was not…
In the 1970s, British aquaculture businesses imported North American signal crayfish to stock farms, hoping to build a profitable new freshwater fishery. But the plan backfired: the hardy invaders escaped into rivers, multiplied rapidly and spread across England, Wales and Scotland. Today they dominate many waterways and carry crayfish plague, a disease that is usually…
Cerio began planning a bird sanctuary soon after buying Paradise Farm. (Newport History Society photo) Mabel Norman Cerio spent much of her life between art and nature at Paradise Farm in Middletown, Rhode Island. In 1908, she bought the coastal property from the estate of her brother after the death of her father. Decades later,…
Ratcliffe’s “emergency” visit to Moscow comes amid concerns over a possible escalation of the Ukraine war Russia may be considering a dramatic escalation of the Ukraine war with CIA Director John Ratcliffe reportedly travelling to Moscow for an “emergency” meeting amid fears that the Kremlin could resort to nuclear weapons or target Ukraine’s Western allies,…
AI-generated image for representation purpose Thousands of honeybees travelled into space aboard NASA‘s Space Shuttle Discovery in 1984 for an experiment that sounds unusual even today. The space agency sent 3,301 bees into microgravity to see whether they could survive and, more importantly, build their famous honeycomb without the pull of gravity. The 7-day mission…
Karan Gupta former Optum director jailed to 3 years in prison over $950,000 fraud scheme/Image: Getty Images An Indian-origin former director at healthcare company Optum has been sentenced to three years in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded the company of more than $950,000.Karan Gupta, 48, based in California, was sentenced on…
Cash purchases have also declined faster than the overall housing market (representative image) Cash is losing some of its advantage in the US housing market as home sales slow, inventory increases and price growth moderates, giving buyers relying on mortgages a better chance of competing.The share of homes bought with cash fell to 31.4% in…
AI generated image used for representational purpose NEW DELHI: The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) has directed a Mumbai builder to pay Rs 6 crore to a cooperative housing society after finding that its members had been living under the continuing risk of demolition for more than 20 years because the developer failed to…