The music was loud, the streets were crowded and a troupe of glamorous dancers swayed through the festival in sparkling outfits and heavy makeup. To most people in the crowd, they looked like part of the entertainment. But hidden beneath the wigs, dresses and bright lipstick were undercover Thai police officers waiting for the right…
A quiet field can look completely ordinary until you notice the pattern. Many cows and deer seem to rest or graze with their bodies lined up roughly north-south. That odd detail first drew serious scientific attention in 2008, when Sabine Begall, Hynek Burda and colleagues reported that cattle and deer across many locations often followed…
Getting to the moon is expensive. Every kilogram of fuel that a spacecraft carries has to be lifted off Earth, which itself burns more fuel. This is why aerospace engineers and orbital mechanics researchers spend enormous amounts of time hunting for even the smallest efficiencies in how a spacecraft travels. A few meters per second…
For all the ambition packed into humanity’s plans for Mars colonies, lunar bases, and permanent off-world settlements, one fundamental question has quietly gone unanswered: can humans actually reproduce in space? Gravity, radiation, and microgravity-induced biological changes present obstacles that are significant and poorly understood by current science. China has now taken the most direct step…
PewDiePie has announced that his monthly YouTube vlogs will end in September 2026 after nearly four years. The decision is largely driven by his desire to let his son, Björn, grow up away from the internet and choose for himself whether he wants to appear online in the future. While the vlogs are ending, Felix…
Tim Hortons said it will hire 10,000 local people in Canada after facing backlash over the years for its dependence on foreign workers. After years of depending largely of the Temporary Foreign Worker program for which Tim Hortons was nicknamed as ‘Singh Hortons’, the restaurant chain announced on Monday that they decided to scale back…
Indian-origin investor says he waited eight years for his Green Card. An Indian-origin investor shared his Green Card journey but got slammed on social media as he was taking sides of those who wait decades for permanent residency in the US, yet do not get it. The post from Arnav Sahu, a Silicon Valley investor,…
A top neurosurgeon has been suspended after a medical tribunal found he had a sexual relationship with a vulnerable female patient and repeatedly prescribed her addictive painkillers without proper records or safeguards.Chirag Patel, a consultant at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, was handed an eight-month suspension after admitting to the relationship and sending…
Chien-Shiung Wu (Image: Wikipedia) This quote from Chien-Shiung Wu has been floating around science circles for years, sometimes posted with a bit of humour, sometimes with admiration, and sometimes just as a passing thought people save without really explaining why. On the surface, it sounds light, almost domestic in a way, like someone complaining about…
Laura Loomer (Left) Tulsi Gabbard (Right) A social media clash erupted between far-right activist Laura Loomer and former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard after Loomer accused Gabbard of “pretending to be a Christian” over a Bible verse shared online.The controversy began after Gabbard posted a verse from the Bible on X, writing: “But my eyes are toward…