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In 1921, Texas oil geologist Wallace Pratt travelled into a remote, wind-swept oasis in West Texas and fell in love with its tall limestone walls and bright autumn colours. Thirty-eight years later, his long love for McKittrick Canyon helped change the future of Texas conservation. Pratt gave his home and thousands of acres to the…

Volunteers excavating outside one of the huts identified within the settlement (Image: Lake District National Park) A group of 25 dedicated volunteers has revealed a rare Iron Age settlement in the Deepdale valley of the Lake District National Park. The find, known as the Deepdale Bridge Settlement, emerged as part of a wider survey of…

Suhas Subramanyam addressed the latest NRI controversy going around him. Indian-origin Democrat Rep. Suhas Subramanyam directly addressed the viral claims against him doing the rounds on social media that he helped Tamil people who are not even in his district. An anti-H-1 B activist Nick Plumb shared some screenshots that he said he got from…

The seeds that NASA sent to space in 1984, returned to Earth six years later in 1990 and had to be distributed among students as plant kits. What lies behind this statement is a tale of space motion that many remain unaware of. The mission was to determine whether exposure to the space environment would…

During the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, Backshall began developing a railway in the garden of his home in Willingdon, East Sussex (Image Credit: George Carden/BBC) A former railway engineer has transformed his garden in East Sussex into an unusual working railway, complete with full-size track, a vintage-style carriage and railway memorabilia. Railway Magazine, which featured…

The stolen funds were used for a range of personal expenses, according to federal prosecutors. Some of the money financed Ream’s wedding, while additional funds went toward luxury international travel. For four years, a credit supervisor at a Long Island health care products company had access to a pool of money intended for customer refunds….

(Image credit: Masato Hattori) More than three decades after a partial ankylosaur skull was first discovered in a Hokkaido riverbank deposit, researchers have formally named it as a new genus and species, Nipponopelta yezoensis, the first ankylosaur ever formally named from Japan. The study, ‘A new nodosaurid ankylosaur (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Hikagenosawa…

A quarry in Florennes, Wallonia, is combining solar power with sheep farming in a 3.3-hectare agrivoltaic project. Calcaires Agri Énergie, in partnership with Ether Energy, developed the project, which places 3,240 photovoltaic panels above land used for sheep grazing. The panels have a total capacity of 2.27 MWc and are raised above the ground with…

Trump pays tribute as 2024 rally shooting victim James Copenhaver dies James Copenhaver, who was among those injured in the 2024 shooting at then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign rally, died, his family told CNN.Copenhaver was injured when a gunman opened fire at Trump’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania’s Butler, on July 13, 2024, during the…

Built in Glasgow in the 1860s, the City of Adelaide began life as an iron-hulled passenger and mail steamer before undergoing several transformations that eventually left it stranded off Magnetic Island in Queensland. After becoming a coal-storage hulk, the vessel was badly damaged by fire in 1912 and later bought with plans to give it…