About 1,000 people in Japan joined forces on Sunday to help pull the roughly 400-ton keep of Hirosaki Castle back toward its original position, more than a decade after the historic structure was moved nearly 78 meters for repairs. Participants in Aomori Prefecture were divided into groups and used ropes to pull a cart carrying…
Old Faithful Geyser EruptionPhoto: Canva Old Faithful may be the world’s most famous geyser, but until recently, no one had a clear picture of the “plumbing” that powers its eruptions. In a landmark 2017 studytitled ‘Anatomy of Old Faithful From Subsurface Seismic Imaging of the Yellowstone Upper Geyser Basin’, University of Utah scientists deployed 133…
US to restore staffing at Middle East embassies after Iran war evacuations, NYT report The United States is preparing to return diplomats to several Middle Eastern embassies that were evacuated during the war with Iran, according to a report by the New York Times. The move suggests Washington does not expect a return to full-scale…
The property was more than a place connected to Johnson’s presidency. It was also a home for the Johnson family. (LBJ library photo) In 1972, former US President Lyndon B Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, gave their ranch house and about 600 acres of land to the National Park Service for use as…
On 15 January 2022, an underwater volcano in the South Pacific sent an extraordinary amount of water vapour into a part of the atmosphere that is normally very dry. The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption pushed the moisture high into the stratosphere, with the plume reaching as far as about 53 kilometres above Earth. Scientists estimated…
HRW report shows that drug gangs and rebel groups in Colombia are increasingly recruiting children Colombian drug gangs and rebel groups are increasingly recruiting children and training them for dangerous roles, including piloting drones loaded with explosives, Human Rights Watch said in a report published Monday.The rights watchdog said armed groups were using social media…
With support from the Trust for Public Land, the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department plans to secure the timber rights covering 949 acres of the Snake Mountain Wildlife Management Area (WMA). A conservation story that began nearly seven decades ago is entering a new chapter in Vermont. What was once a complicated split between land…
Solar Neutrino Experiment 1 used a tank filled with chlorine-based perchloroethylene to detect neutrinos from the Sun. A gold mine in South Dakota once produced millions of ounces of precious metal. Today, the same site is being used to study some of the biggest mysteries in the universe.The Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota,…
Representative Image (AI-generated) For more than three decades, a collection of animal bones from Ireland’s Ferriter’s Cove was considered some of the earliest evidence that farming had reached the island. But new research has now overturned that interpretation. According to University College Dublin (UCD), bones once identified as cattle have instead been identified as belonging…
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in a video message that Syria is ‘shaking off a dark burden’ (File photo) The United States on Monday removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, ending a designation that had been in place since 1979 and imposing significant restrictions on trade, investment and financial transactions with…