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Historic photo of the completed B&O freight warehouse, now Longworth Hall Longworth Hall, a historic railroad freight warehouse in Cincinnati, is now shorter than it was for most of its history. About 210 feet of the world’s longest buildings has been removed to make way for a new bridge over the Ohio River.The demolition is…

​RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s event organiser’s X account has been suspended two days before the Madison Square Garden programme. The X ( formerly Twitter) account of the organisation hosting Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan Bhagwat‘s event at Madison Square Garden has been suspended days before the event.The American Hindus for Engagement and Dialogue (AHEAD)…

A worker prepares the well on a Boston-area horse farm to lower Eden’s electrode (Image Credit: Bob O’Connor via IEE Spectrum) What if the rocks beneath our feet could one day be turned into a giant hydrogen factory, not by drilling up an existing fuel reserve, but by sending controlled bursts of electricity deep underground?…

Pilot whales stranded around Hawaii Massive tangles of discarded fishing lines, ropes and plastic bags are harming marine life in the Pacific, with deep-diving whales swallowing thousands of plastic pieces in Hawaiian waters. A 13-year study of stranded short-finned pilot whales around the main Hawaiian Islands found that nearly 23 per cent of the animals…

In 1966, visitors arriving at the Venice Biennale were confronted by an unusual sight. Spread across the lawn outside the Italian Pavilion were 1,500 shimmering silver spheres, each catching fragments of the surrounding architecture, the sky and anyone who stopped to look.Reportedly, among them stood Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, dressed in a gold kimono. She…

Mt Cathalia rises above downtown Ellenvill (Picture: Chonogram magazine) In the 1950s, Chinese American Army veteran Joseph Tso bought a 440-acre mountain property in Ellenville, New York, renamed it Mt Cathalia and developed a hotel and ski resort there. The property is now set to become part of Minnewaska State Park Preserve. According to Open…

Image(s): Left/Wikipedia/Right/Fandom Humanity has never had access to information on the scale available today. With a few taps, we can find scientific discoveries, historical records, news and opinions from almost anywhere in the world. Yet having more information does not necessarily mean becoming wiser about how to use it. Isaac Asimov captured this tension in…

In Kyoto’s Arashiyama area, bamboo groves are frequently damaged by graffiti. Kyoto’s famous Arashiyama Bamboo Grove is facing growing damage from tourists carving names and other writing into its bamboo stalks. A city investigation found that around 350 bamboo plants along the popular walking path had been damaged since spring 2025.The damage has prompted Kyoto…

Ramesh Sharma, 65, and Neelam Sharma, 64/Image: X An Indo-American doctor has made an urgent appeal for information about her parents after the couple went missing during catastrophic flash floods and landslides near the Nepal-China border while travelling on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash.Radhika Sharma said her parents, Ramesh Sharma, 65, and Neelam Sharma, 64,…

The blast took place at around 10 am local time near a supermarket in the Shushary neighbourhood. A Russian military lieutenant colonel was killed after a car exploded in St Petersburg on Thursday, while his wife, who was also in the vehicle, was seriously injured, Russian media reported.The blast took place at around 10 am…