A seventh grader in Montana compared banana and plantain starch to develop a stronger bioplastic. Rye Lynn Rost, a student at Baker Junior High School in Baker, MT, wanted to create plastics from natural materials that could break down without losing their durability too quickly.For her project, she studied bioplastics made from plantains (Musa paradisiaca)…
File photo: Captain Smit Machchhar and Dr Shota Musaev An Israel-based dentist who was among the passengers on flydubai Flight FZ1073 has recalled the frantic 45-minute effort to save Captain Smit Machchhar after he was attacked in the cockpit during the Dubai-Tel Aviv flight.Dr Shota Musaev to ABC News that he rushed towards the cockpit…
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev addresses the media following the incident in Bulgaria’s Black Sea economic zone (Photo: Reuters). Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev on Tuesday said two commercial vessels were struck by drones inside the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone, marking the first attack on shipping in the exclusive waters of a Nato country.The ships…
It looked like an odd old Nintendo cartridge sitting among boxes of gaming memorabilia. But when video-game collector Rob Walters came across it at a New York garage sale in 2006, he had stumbled upon something that Nintendo had never intended to become a collector’s treasure.The cartridge was made specifically for Nintendo’s 1991 Campus Challenge,…
Andy Roddick and Brooklyn Decker Photo credit (L-R): Getty Images and Sotheby’s In 2013, tennis star Andy Roddick and his wife, model and actress Brooklyn Decker, paid about $3.7 million for a 15-acre estate in Austin, Texas. The couple spent years renovating the farmhouse-style home, adding their own design touches to create a sprawling, family-friendly…
A nearly century-old English Cotswold-style manor in Los Angeles, once owned by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz and actor Gene Hackman, is on the market. The cobblestone driveway stretching more than 200 feet leads to a manor straight out of the English countryside. Located at 4934 Queen Florence Lane in Woodland Hills, in the San Fernando…
National Award winner Abhay Jodhpurkar on being asked to sing like Arijit Singh (Image Credits Instagram) National Award-winning singer Abhay Jodhpurkar has opened up about being asked to emulate Arijit Singh‘s voice, revealing that he has even been shown digitally generated material in Singh’s voice as a reference for a song. The singer questioned the…
India’s Abhishek Sharma and Shafali Verma (Agency Images) India’s dominant run in international cricket has earned four of its stars a place on the ICC Player of the Month shortlists for September, with Shubman Gill and Abhishek Sharma nominated in the men’s category, while Shafali Verma and Shree Charani feature among the women’s nominees.Gill is…
South Indian cinema is offering multiple releases this week that you can sit back and watch at your comfort, whenever and wherever you want. Let’s take a look at some of the films that are releasing or have already been released on digital platforms, across multiple genres, from romance dramas in Telugu cinema to action…
Kenya on Tuesday confirmed its first case linked to the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa, the fastest-spreading in history, with a Kenyan citizen who arrived from Congo via Uganda testing positive for the infection.According to Kenyan health minister Aden Duale, the patient arrived in the country on October 3 and had been isolated and treated…