Myanmar nationals who were sent back from Malaysia look from a bus as they leave a Myanmar Navy base. (AP Photo) Nearly 1,500 Myanmar nationals repatriated from Malaysia arrived in the country’s largest city, Yangon, on Sunday, despite warnings from the United Nations refugee agency and rights groups that conditions for their return remain unsafe.The…
Hamam al-Hammami, the accused co-pilot in the flydubai incident (Image source: LinkedIn) New reports suggest that the Omani co-pilot accused of attacking the captain and trying to seize control of a Flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv probably acted alone.An Israeli official told CNN that information gathered during the investigation so far suggested Hamam al-Hammami…
PewDiePie (Image via Getty) PewDiePie is stepping into the AI race with a project that is less about building the biggest model and more about making AI personal. Felix Kjellberg has introduced Ajax, a compact language model designed to run locally through his self-hosted Odysseus workspace. The project has also drawn attention because Kjellberg says…
Voters line up at a polling station during general elections in Brasilia, Brasilia (AP Photo) Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro, an ally of US President Donald Trump and the eldest son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, will face each other in a runoff election on October 25 after neither…
In 2021, Australian engineers mixed shredded single-use face masks with processed building rubble for road bases; the material met engineering standards, and 1 km of two-lane road could use about 3 million masks/Image: RMIT University About 3 million single-use face masks could be used to build the base of a one-kilometre, two-lane road, according to…
Hamam al-Hammami, the accused co-pilot in the flydubai incident (Image source: LinkedIn) The Omani co-pilot who attacked the captain of a flydubai flight bound for Tel Aviv may have tried to crash the aircraft in the Saudi desert after realising that passengers were about to thwart his attempt to seize control of the plane, according…
A $3 purchase at a South Carolina Goodwill store turned into one of the most remarkable thrift-store art discoveries in recent memory. The buyer, a former antiques dealer identified only by his middle name, Leroy, spotted an oil painting in an antique frame and assumed it might be worth a few hundred dollars. His daughter-in-law…
Since 1967, corn buntings have declined by 83% in the UK. But over the decade, the bird population around Martin Down, on the Hampshire-Dorset border, has risen by 346%.The red-listed bird is not the only one to benefit. Grey partridges in the same cluster are up 147%. Butterfly abundance has climbed 183%. Turtle doves, barn…
Nathan Gael Montelongo, the La Joya, Texas seventh-grader who turned restaurant shellfish shells into chitosan (Image Credit: Society for Science) A fishing trip along the Rio Grande led a La Joya, Texas, seventh-grader to investigate whether discarded shellfish shells could help remove pollution from water. Nathan Gael Montelongo became interested in the problem after a…
Ankith BurkiPhoto: Society for Science For Ankith Burki, the global water crisis was not an abstract classroom topic but a challenge worth trying to solve. The seventh-grader from BASIS Independent Silicon Valley in San Jose designed an atmospheric water generator that pulls moisture from humid air, then tested whether sound could make it more effective….
