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The cloud extended some 3,200 km from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean and some 1,200 km from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago

Smartphones have radically changed our lives. So much so that most of us are rarely without them. Yet, despite their benefits, many of us are hostage to our phones and slaves to the endless scroll, unable to fully disconnect. Phone users are paying the price with a lack of sleep, weaker offline relationships and mood disorders

Understanding how animals respond to ecologically irrelevant tasks sheds light on how our own intelligence has evolved

A new study eveals how this hidden mountain chain emerged more than 500 million years ago when the supercontinent Gondwana formed from colliding tectonic plates. The findings offered fresh insight into how mountains and continents evolved over geological time

The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 and taking 251 hostages. Israel's massive retaliation has killed over 52,000 people in Gaza

iNaturalist, a citizen science app, database holds more than 240 million observations of nature worldwide. All of this data is extremely important for scientists to understand the ecology of different species. iNaturalist has played a key role in the discovery of new species as well as sightings of species that have previously not been seen for decades

The deal covers minerals, including rare earth elements, but also other valuable resources including oil and natural gas. It does not include resources that are already a source of revenue for the Ukrainian State

NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers are the two female astronauts among seven living on the international space station at present. Also, they are the fifth pair to do all-female spacewalk in 60 years of spacewalking

US Customs and Border Protection is revoking two-year permits of people who used an online appointment app at US border crossings with Mexico called CBP One, which brought in more than 9,00,000 people since 2023. With the immigrants, the Trump administration seems to be targeting their immigration attorneys, who are US citizens

Any baptized Roman Catholic male is eligible to be pope, but since 1378, only cardinals have been selected

The exceptional pear-shaped blue diamond, estimated to fetch between US$ 35-50 million, is associated with Yeshwant Rao Holkar, the Maharaja of Indore and a member of the Holkar dynasty, who along with his wife was known for a grand lifestyle in the 1920s and 1930s

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found fingerprints of 'dimethyl sulphide' and 'dimethyl disulphide' on distant exoplanet named K2-18 b -- known to be produced on Earth by microbes. The molecules provide the strongest evidence yet that life may exist on a planet outside our solar system, even as how they formed on that exoplanet remain unknown

Every tree, though young, still provides valuable habitat for many species – as long as they're not bulldozed

The heat insects need for metabolism and growth comes from the environment. This is partly how they are so abundant around the world

The reason Earth’s oceans may have looked different in the ancient past is to do with their chemistry and the evolution of photosynthesis

Dire wolves went extinct more than 10,000 years old and are much larger than gray wolves, their closest living relatives today

A vast tropical archipelago stretching across the equator, Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest rainforest, home to many endangered species of wildlife and plants, including orangutans, elephants and giant forest flowers. Some live nowhere else

Researchers tried to learn what really drives intense feelings of FOMO – which explains why a run-of-the-mill meeting might feel more crucial than an over-the-top vacation

New habitat, environs, and food sources made some of the dinosaurs to start using their arms for a whole new purpose

A new research analysed the frequency signatures of starquakes across a broad range of giant stars in the M67 star cluster, almost 3,000 light years from Earth

The short answer to “Why are there ants everywhere?” is simply this: We live on a planet where ants outnumber us by an almost unimaginable margin

The base was built following a 1951 defence agreement between Denmark and the United States. It supports missile warning, missile defence and space surveillance operations for the US and NATO

President Donald Trump's administration says no classified material was leaked when senior officials used Signal to discuss upcoming attack plans against the Houthi rebels in Yemen -- even though a journalist was on the chat

Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden are among the nations the US Department of Agriculture approached to address the shortage brought on by a bird flu outbreak. But supplying Americans with eggs would be complicated for these foreign producers