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Beyond historical fiction, Aryash has worked on scientific ideas involving gene editing and space research A 14-year-old Indian-American student from Pennsylvania has won a $1,000 national writing prize for a historical-fiction story set in a Philadelphia print shop on July 4, 1776. Aryash Shyam, a ninth-grade student at Lehigh Valley Academy, was named one of…

An Australian homeowner’s long-running dispute over invasive bamboo has ended with a court order for coordinated removal and a payment of A$6,253.50 toward treatment and likely repairs. In Wines v Homes NSW, the Land and Environment Court of New South Wales found that bamboo growing principally on a neighbouring property had spread beneath the boundary…

In the autumn of 1930, Leo Scanlon, a plumber from Pittsburgh, solved a problem in his backyard that would leave a lasting mark on amateur astronomy. Scanlon was building a private observatory behind his home in the Summer Hill neighbourhood on Pittsburgh’s North Side. He needed a lightweight, weather-resistant dome to protect a homemade telescope….

(Pic credit: WeBuyVintage) Only the right eyes can spot a hidden treasure. A UK woman discovered just how valuable her eye for a bargain was after a £5 car boot sale find turned out to be a diamond ring worth almost 3,000 times what she paid for it!The woman, whose name remains undisclosed, was browsing…

Redditor says she faces racism in her nurse job in Australia which is one of the reasons she wants to come back to India. A Redditor, claiming to be a 24-year-old woman with a secure nurse job in Australia and the prospect of getting permanent residency in two years, said she does not like life…

Pic credit: Savills/ On the market The Old Kirk has been a church, then a bistro, and now, if the sellers get their way, it could become a family home. The property sits in the village of Fordyce, a few miles from Banff in north-east Scotland. The five-bedroom detached house is now up for sale…

When severe glaucoma forced Reuben Aaron Miller to stop working as a farmer and preacher at the age of 65, he turned to scrap metal and wood to keep himself busy. At his home in Rabbittown, near Gainesville, Georgia, Miller began making wind-powered whirligigs, cut-out animal figures and hand-painted tin signs. Over the next 20…

Parts of Ontario to move to permanent daylight saving time on November 1. The Ontario government announced that it will be making daylight saving time permanent in parts of northwestern Ontario to keep in sync with Manitoba because Manitoba said they will switch to permanent daylight saving time on November 1. Ontario says the recently…

Deep in the Sahara Desert, where rain is rare and plants struggle to spread, an unlikely desert gardener may be at work. Researchers who sifted through hundreds of carnivore droppings found intact seeds from eight different plant species, suggesting that wolves and foxes may help desert vegetation spread across the landscape. If you have ever…

White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is in hot water as she claims to be a lawyer but there is no confirmation that she passed the bar exam. A major row erupted over White House’s new press secretary Katie Zacharia, calling herself a lawyer because experts said she is not. Zacharia has a law degree…