Park Geonroung older (left) and as Baby shark boy (right).(Picture Credit: X) Park Geonroung, the child star of Pinkfong’s “Baby Shark Dance”, has made his K-pop debut a decade after appearing in the viral video.The 2016 video, in which Park appeared at the age of 7, has more than 17.2 billion views and remains the…
Dubai is surrounded by dunes and for a country that has ample desert sand, one would think they would utilise it as a resource. However, the sand underfoot has long been a poor fit for ordinary concrete. Wind makes desert grains unusually fine, smooth, and rounded, so they do not interlock as easily as the…
An estimated 18 million people of all ages live with cerebral palsy across the globe. Within the United States, this number ranges from 764,000 to 1 million, with about 1 in every 345 children diagnosed, according to the Cerebral Palsy Guide. Most such kids are unable to entertain themselves with the toys and activities that…
The exotic mute swan has increased its population size in Chesapeake Bay to approximately 4,500 since 1962. In 1962, five mute swans escaped from an estate in Talbot County, Maryland. More than four decades later, their descendants had grown to nearly 4,000 in the Chesapeake Bay region. As their numbers rose across the Chesapeake Bay…
In a vineyard in Italy’s Puglia region, rows of grapevines grew beneath something more usually associated with power stations than agriculture: photovoltaic panels. The arrangement changed the amount of sunlight reaching the vines, but it also altered what was happening much closer to the ground. Soil stayed wetter, temperatures were less extreme and the air…
Australian teacher and kite enthusiast Angus Johnstone has turned an unusual hobby into a Guinness World Records achievement and a fundraising campaign for Myanmar. In March 2026, Johnstone kept a kite airborne for 26 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds in Killarney, Victoria, earning the Guinness title for the longest kite flight by an individual….
Representative Image of salmon-crested cockatoos in a lush forest on Seram Island (AI-generated image) On Indonesia’s Seram Island, the Huaulu Indigenous community has adapted a centuries-old coming-of-age ritual to reduce hunting pressure on the endangered salmon-crested cockatoo. The Cidaku ceremony marks young men’s transition to adulthood and traditionally involved hunting the cockatoo for its distinctive…
Image: The Des Moines Register When Sha’rel Moore and her husband, Brandon, bought three acres of abandoned land in northwest Iowa in 2024, they dreamed of creating a home where they could raise their growing family. The property already contained an old farmhouse, but the couple soon realised that restoring it would cost more than…
Representative Image of Neanderthals exploring a lush Arabian landscape with ancient lakes and wildlife (AI-generated image) A new study suggests Neanderthals may have trekked far deeper into the Arabian Peninsula than scientists previously thought possible, reaching a lakeside site in what is now Saudi Arabia around 55,000 years ago. Researchers examined stone tools from Jebel…
A $12 million research project at Penn State is trying to give drones a new way of making decisions, drawing inspiration from the small brains of insects and other animals. Funded by the US Army’s Army Research Laboratory, the project aims to develop an onboard sensing system that can pick out useful information without sending…