Ukraine strikes Russian aerospace facility and MiG-31 base in overnight attacks

Ukraine strikes deep into Russia, rocket centre in Samara, airfield in Nizhny Novgorod hit (representative image) Ukraine said on Saturday that its forces carried out strikes on two Russian military-related targets, including a rocket and space centre in Samara and the Savasleyka military airfield in the Nizhny Novgorod region.In a post on X, Ukrainian President…

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38 killed, buildings collapse; 5 visuals of devastation

Devastation due to earthquake Devastation in Indonesia as powerful earthquake Devastation due to earthquake Devastation in Indonesia as powerful earthquake Devastation due to earthquake At least 38 people were killed after a magnitude-7.7 earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia early Saturday, collapsing buildings, triggering landslides and sending terrified residents fleeing for safety, officials said.Videos and images…

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Jellyfish turned into an unexpected threat to France’s Gravelines nuclear plant after a huge swarm clogged its cooling system

PC: Sameer Al-DOUMY / AFP via Getty  A huge swarm of jellyfish has forced France’s Gravelines nuclear power plant to shut three reactors and reduce output from a fourth, after the animals clogged parts of the seawater cooling system. EDF took reactors 2, 3 and 4 offline as a precaution, while reactor 1 was limited to…

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The Sahara once held a lake 48% larger than all five Great Lakes combined, but Mega-Chad vanished about 5,000 years ago

Representative Image of ancient Lake Mega-Chad contrasting with the dry deserts that now occupy the region (AI-generated image) Roughly 6,000 years ago, the middle of what is now the southern Sahara held a lake larger than all five North American Great Lakes combined, spread across about 361,000 square kilometres of open water. Today, only Lake…

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24-year-old archaeology enthusiast helps uncover a 3,700-year-old stone circle hidden in an English forest

​Representative Image of an ancient Bronze Age stone circle hidden within a dense forest (AI-generated image) For years, a lone stone standing in Farley Wood near the town of Matlock in Derbyshire was thought to be an isolated monument with nothing much around it. That changed after George Bird, a 24-year-old amateur archaeologist and student,…

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The ground beneath 394-foot wind turbines in Poland became unexpected nesting and feeding grounds for wild bees in farmland

At a wind farm in western Poland, the ground beneath the turbines has quietly turned into unexpected pollinator territory. A wind turbine standing 394 feet tall rises above sprayed grain fields near Gołańcz, and the unmown gravel patch encircling its base has been found to hold as many wild bees as the seminatural grasslands set…

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