Singapore has brought the memory of a vanished 1920s landmark into one of its newest housing estates, but the new Alkaff Lake is doing much more than recreating a piece of the past. Built inside Bidadari Park, the 1.8-hectare lake was inspired by the former Alkaff Gardens, which opened to the public in 1929. Today,…
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…
Nitro_Camden’s Twitch stream took an unexpected turn after popular streamer StableRonaldo raided his channel and sent around 15,000 viewers his way. The 18-year-old streamer was celebrating the huge jump in viewers when the situation suddenly became serious. His mother entered the room after reportedly getting upset about the noise. What started as a big moment…
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…
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…
Two Belgian mountaineers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have finally been identified after their remains emerged from a retreating glacier 34 years later. The men, who were 39 and 41 when they vanished, had set out in the Weissmies region but never reached their planned destination. Despite searches at the time, only…
PC: 3M Young Scientist Lab Dry air is not completely without water. There is moisture suspended in the atmosphere even when rainfall is scarce, and 13-year-old Aniket Sarkar wanted to find out whether some of it could be recovered for agriculture. His idea led to a low-cost atmospheric water capture system built with ordinary materials,…
A plane carrying deportees from the United States arrives at Roberts International Airport, Harbel, near Monrovia, Liberia (Picture credit: Reuters) The United States on Thursday carried out its first deportation under an agreement allowing Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not Liberian nationals, marking one of the Trump administration’s largest efforts yet…
Meliza Campos-Sanchez has suddenly become the focus of widespread attention after disturbing videos allegedly posted to her social media account became part of a police investigation in Miami-Dade. The 26-year-old influencer and realtor, who built an online audience around lifestyle, family and real estate content, was arrested after authorities investigated a kitchen fire and alleged…
Sonia Bellina’s sudden death has left her family and more than 260,000 TikTok followers searching for answers after her body was discovered burned in a French vineyard. The 29-year-old creator had built a following through lip-sync videos and personal content, but her final days have now become the focus of a murder investigation. Two men…
