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PC: Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, Julia-Marlen Schiefelbein Construction work in historic city centres often reveals traces of earlier lives, though only occasionally do archaeologists encounter objects that shed light on the personal beliefs of medieval communities. That has happened at Berlin’s Molkenmarkt, where excavations by the Berlin State Office for the Preservation of Historical Monuments have produced…

Photo by: Taronga Conservation Society Australia A tiny snail once feared lost forever has just reached a major conservation milestone. More than 1,000 critically endangered Campbell’s keeled glass snails (Advena campbellii) have now been released onto Norfolk Island, marking the latest phase of a recovery program that has turned a presumed extinction story into one…

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage unveiled ‘Operation Fortress’. Britain’s right-wing Reform UK party has unveiled ‘Operation Fortress’, a military-led plan that it says would end illegal migrant crossings across the English Channel if it comes to power.Party leader Nigel Farage described it as the “largest military operation in the Channel since World War II,” promising…

​US Army has used up most of its long-range precision missile stockpiles in the Iran war, raising concerns over readiness for potential conflicts with China, Reuters report. The US Army has used up most of its stockpile of long-range precision missiles as per an exclusive report by Reuters citing three people familiar with the data….

Darshan Magdum announces to his band members in the US that he got his O-1 visa. Darshan Magdum, an Indian vocalist, called his band members in the US on FaceTime to announce that his visa has been approved. “We did it, guys,” Magdum told his bandmates Zachary Sobania, Evan Papier and Anthony Key. Four of…

Image credits: Wikimedia Commons A campaign to protect one of the world’s most important rainforests took an unexpected turn when conservationist Paul Rosolie revealed that his organisation, Junglekeepers, had difficulty using the word “Amazon” in Google Ads while promoting its work. Frustrated by what he described as an automated trademark-related obstacle, Rosolie turned to Amazon…

For thousands of years, the burial chambers beneath Egypt’s Nile Delta remained closed, preserving more than just human remains. Every object placed beside the dead reflected ideas about protection, status and the journey into the afterlife. That quiet record has grown richer following fresh excavations at Tell Quesna, where archaeologists uncovered a funerary complex containing…

Barring only 4 companies from hiring H-1B visa holders for one to two years is not enough, H-1B critics said. The US Department of Labor recently barred four employers from hiring H-1Bs for 2027 and 2028 after they were found as wilful violators. Labor Department’s inspector general Anthony D’Esposito announced the measure and issued a…

Polynesian sailors/ Image: Wikipedia Centuries before GPS satellites, magnetic compasses or detailed nautical charts existed, Polynesian voyagers were crossing one of Earth’s most challenging landscapes: the vast Pacific Ocean. Setting out in double-hulled canoes, they travelled thousands of kilometres between tiny islands scattered across an ocean that covers nearly a third of the planet. Remarkably,…

PC: Science Advances (2026). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aeh1266​ Amber is usually associated with dinosaurs, prehistoric insects and forests that flourished long after life had become well established on land. The oldest confirmed pieces of fossilised tree resin, until now, came from rocks dating to roughly 320 million years ago. That picture has changed with a discovery from…