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Goliath, a 135-year-old Galapagos tortoise at Zoo Miami, celebrated both his birthday and his first Father's Day after successfully siring his first offspring with female tortoise Sweet Pea

Friday the 13th is feared for its perceived bad luck, rooted in Norse mythology, Christian beliefs, and modern pop culture. The superstition grew after a 1907 novel and was cemented by the iconic Friday the 13th horror film franchise

Israel launched airstrikes on multiple Iranian nuclear and military sites. Key targeted sites likely included Natanz and Fordo enrichment facilities, Bushehr power plant, and others nuclear sites

This timeline outlines the most significant aviation disasters in India, spanning from 1978 to 2020—ranging from the Air India Flight 855 crash in the Arabian Sea to the Kozhikode runway overrun

AI chatbots may be a useful place to start when you're having a bad day and just need a chat. But when the bad days continue to happen, it's time to talk to a professional as well

Japanese walking is a simple workout that mixes fast and slow walking. It helps with weight loss, lowers blood pressure, and boosts fitness. Doing it regularly can improve health and may help you live longer

Dolphins are known for their impressive jumps and acrobatic displays, which may look like fun but also serve important purposes

Children are routinely given the measles-mumps- rubella (MMR) vaccine at 12 months and the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV, with “varicella” being chickenpox) vaccine at 18 months. Babies at higher risk of catching the disease can also be given an additional early dose

There is sufficient evidence that household mould is associated with respiratory issues attributable to their allergic effects. However, there is no strong evidence mycotoxins from household mould – and in particular black mould – are associated with substantial health issues

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