Australia could be sitting on a hidden stockpile of hundreds of tonnes of silver as millions of solar panels approach the end of their working lives. More than one million tonnes of waste solar panels are expected across the country by 2050, containing an estimated 300–500 tonnes of silver. Much of that valuable metal is…
Chicago’s founding problem had always been plumbing. The city drew its drinking water from Lake Michigan and emptied sewers into the Chicago River, which flowed straight into Lake Michigan. But every rainstorm flushed the stockyards and slaughterhouses and a million people’s waste out toward the water intakes. This is why the nineteenth-century city was periodically…
Saudi Arabia shut down its major East-West oil pipeline after drone attacks struck pumping stations in the Riyadh and Madinah regions. US President Donald Trump on Saturday said Iran was probably responsible for an aerial attack on Saudi Arabia that forced the shutdown of the kingdom’s East-West oil pipeline, a key route for exporting crude…
PC: Study: A vast 4,000-year-old spatial pattern of termite mounds Across northeastern Brazil, an extraordinary landscape hides a secret beneath its surface. Around 200 million earthen mounds stretch across roughly 230,000 square kilometres, an area about the size of Great Britain. Some of these structures are almost 4,000 years old, yet they are not termite…
For years, a 160-year-old church in St. Louis stood as a reminder of a neighbourhood’s past while steadily becoming one of its most troubled properties. The vacant structure had endured a fire, repeated complaints and two structural condemnations. City records showed 37 service requests connected to the property, as concerns about its condition continued to…
Pichai completed his BTech at IIT Kharagpur in 1993. He later moved to the US for higher studies. One went on to lead Google. The other chose a life of spirituality. Both were IIT graduates from the same year, but their careers took them in entirely different directions. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and ISKCON monk…
Investigators said Rohit (L) had been stalking and harassing Thakur (R) for months. A 38-year-old Indian-origin woman was shot dead outside a restaurant in California’s Sacramento after allegedly being stalked and harassed for months by a 22-year-old man, who later died by suicide during a police standoff on a busy highway.Shalini Thakur was being dropped…
Robin Robin/Image: Jay Kogler/AAP PHOTOS A 30-year-old Indian-origin man has been jailed for 27 years in Australia for fatally stabbing a fellow international student and attempting to kill another after a drunken argument in Melbourne.Robin Robin was sentenced in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday for murdering 22-year-old Navjeet Singh Sandhu and attempting to murder…
After $100M cut, Naples estate returns at $195 million (Image Credit: Realtor.com) A home once listed for a staggering $295 million is back on the market in Naples, Florida, but at a dramatically lower price. Gordon Pointe, the sprawling waterfront estate in the exclusive Port Royal neighbourhood, is now asking $195 million after being reduced…
Legendary 1894-S Barber Dime (Image Credit: Stack Bowers Galleries) A 10-cent coin minted in San Francisco more than a century ago has just sold for about $1.25 million, turning one of the smallest denominations in US currency into a million-dollar collector’s prize. The 1894-S Barber dime is one of the most famous rarities in American…