In a historic event blending centuries-old tradition, Pope Francis will open five Holy Doors on Christmas Eve. This event marks the beginning of the 2025 Jubilee Year. These doors are sacred symbols in the Catholic Church. The door at St. Peter’s was sealed shut by a wall of bricks since the Jubilee Year of Divine Mercy. However,…
Imagine tasting history in every spoonful of soup. In Bangkok, Thailand, there’s a small restaurant called Wattana Panich. It serves beef noodle soup simmering with flavors developed over the past 45 years. This isn’t just any soup — it’s a culinary tradition that has become a piece of living history. Locals and tourists alike flock…
In 2011, scientists made a groundbreaking discovery. It was a remarkably well-preserved 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth, nicknamed Yuka, unearthed from the Siberian permafrost. Fast forward to recent research, and Yuka’s ancient cells have done the unthinkable. They’ve shown “signs of biological activity” after being implanted into mouse cells. While the idea of bringing mammoths back to…
When the wildfire alert pierced the quiet night at Pepperdine University. Many students were cramming for their final exams and others were sound asleep in their dorms. The Franklin fire was intensifying around the campus and alerts were issued to evacuate. But instead of evacuating, about 3,000 students headed toward two central buildings on the…
Imagine an underwater volcano erupting with sharks thriving in its hostile waters. It sounds like something out of science fiction, yes. But NASA has captured this reality in the Pacific Ocean. The Kavachi volcano, often nicknamed “Sharkcano,” erupted in 2015, and NASA’s Operational Land Imager-2 aboard the Landsat 9 satellite provided some incredible images. On…
Since mid-November, New Jersey has been at the center of a peculiar mystery: clusters of drones hovering in the night skies. These sightings have sparked confusion and concern among residents and government officials alike. The situation escalated as Jon Bramnick, a Republican state senator, called for a “limited state of emergency” and demanded a temporary…
In a shocking revelation, Australian authorities discovered that over 300 potentially deadly virus samples disappeared from Queensland’s Public Health Virology Laboratory. This major breach of biosecurity protocols occurred in 2021 but was only brought to light in August 2023. The authorities are now carrying out the investigations. Among the missing samples are some of the…
The U.S. East Coast is preparing for a dramatic shift in weather that combines heavy rain, strong winds, freezing conditions, and flooding risks. This volatile system is fueled by a combination of an atmospheric river and a rapidly intensifying storm phenomenon known as a “bomb cyclone.” From Tuesday night through Wednesday night, residents in several…
Launched on September 5, 1977, NASA’s Voyager 1 is the most distant human-made object from Earth. It is currently over 15.5 billion miles from Earth. It’s a pioneering probe that has explored planets, and even crossed into interstellar space. Voyager carries a special message: the “Golden Record.” The record is a time capsule of Earth’s…
On a freezing night in the Carpathian Mountains, a 28-year-old Ukrainian man named Vladislav Duda faced a life-threatening blizzard with his kitten Peach. Duda got trapped in a 1312-foot-deep ravine amidst subzero temperatures while fleeing from the war. He survived not only thanks to a massive rescue operation but also to the warmth and companionship…
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