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Ever wondered how astronauts enjoy their morning coffee while floating around in the vastness of space? Well, it's not as simple as brewing a cup in your kitchen and sipping it from your favourite mug. Astronauts have a pretty cool and unique way of enjoying their coffee while they're out there in the space. Why you can't use a regular cup in space? Imagine you're in a spaceship, and you're about...

Shi Hailin, an athlete from China, must have felt on top of the world, quite literally as he claimed the Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 m slackline walk. But the impressive part about this walk is that he did it in just 1 minute 14.198 seconds. The Guinness World Record said Hailin did the bold stunt 1,600 m above sea level at the Guanyindang camp in Mount Wugong in Pingxiang province o...

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said that the Trump Campaign sent her a birdcage and bird food in the aftermath of her impressive performance on the debate stage last week. Haley has been polling second after Trump in some of the key early primary and caucus states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. In the immediate aftermath of last week’s GOP primary debate, the Trum...

The US government has issued its first fine to a company that violated its anti-space debris rule. The US Federal Communications Commission has asked Dish Network to pay $150,000 over its failure to de-orbit its EchoStar-7 satellite which has been in space since 2002. Dish Network in 2012 had agreed to an orbital debris mitigation plan that would send its satellite into a 'graveyard orbit' where i...

A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump from 13,500 feet in northern Illinois. The Chicago Tribune reports Dorothy Hoffner told a cheering crowd that “age is just a number” moments after she touched the ground Sunday at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois. She made the jump while tethered to a certified instructor. The...

More than 100 dolphins died in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past week due to a severe drought in the region, and many more could also expire soon if water temperatures remain high. The Mamiraua Institute, a research body of Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, said two more dead dolphins were found on Monday in the region of Tefe Lake, which is key for mammals and fis...

A scientist associated with The Netherlands-based Seismological Research Institute Solar System Geometry Survey has claimed that a strong earthquake could hit Pakistan between October 1 to October 3. The seismic organisation noted that strong underground tremors have been recorded along the Chaman fault line in Balochistan. Pakistan has the largest fault line in South Asia called the Chaman fault...

Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian scientist who won this year's Nobel Prize for medicine along with her research partner Drew Weissman recalled how 10 years ago she had been forced to retire. In her first reaction to winning the Nobel Prize for her discoveried about mRNA that contributed to the development of Covid-19 vaccines, Kariko said that she was thrown out of University of Pennsylvania 10 years...

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew Weissman, who performed his prizewinning research together with Karikó at the University of Pennsylv...

Pakistan's National Seismic Monitoring Centre has rejected claims by a Dutch scientist that a strong earthquake could hit the country's Balochistan region between October 1 and 3, Samaa TV reported. The agency said that it is not possible to accurately predict the time of an earthquake, according to the report. It added that many predictions of the Solar System Geometry Survey have been wrong in t...

The seismological research tnstitute Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGS) has predicted that a powerful earthquake may occur in Pakistan's Balochistan area in the next few days, according to Pakistan media reports. It claimed that the magnitude of the quake may be 6 or more. Pakistan 's GEO TV reported that The Netherlands-based organisation known for its seismic observations and predictions noted...

Indonesian President Joko Widodo inaugurated Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway on Monday as it was set to begin commercial operations, a key project under China's Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically reduce the travel time between two key cities. The project has been beset with delays and increasing costs, and some observers doubt its commercial benefits. But Widod...

At least 10 people were killed and about 50 injured after the roof of a church collapsed in Mexico. About 20 to 30 people, including children, are still trapped in the rubble and the rescue efforts are ongoing. According to police, around 100 people were attending a mass at the time of the incident. The injured were taken to a hospital for treatment. The authorities said that the incident was like...

A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in the heart of the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Sunday, while a second assailant was killed in a shootout with police, the interior minister said. The attack occurred hours before Parliament was set to reopen after its three-month summer recess with an address by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Two police officers were slightly injured during the atta...

SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk slammed the Justin Trudeau government in Canada for "crushing free speech" in the country. His remark came in the wake of a recent order of the Canadian government which makes it compulsory for online streaming services to formally register with the government for 'regulatory controls'. Elon Musk was responding to a post by journalist and author Glenn Greenwald who...

An explosion was heard Sunday in the Turkish capital Ankara, close to parliament which was due to open its new session later in the day, an AFP correspondent reported. The Turkish interior ministry has termed the blast in the capital as a 'terrorist attack'. "Two terrorists arrived in a light military vehicle at around 9:30 am (0630 GMT), in front of the entrance gate of the General Directorate of...

In a closely watched development for India, opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz has won the Maldives presidential runoff, securing over 53 percent of the vote. Local media reports confirm Muiz's victory by more than 18,000 votes, with incumbent President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih receiving 46 percent of the vote. This election has effectively become a virtual referendum on which regional power India or...

One of the most wanted Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, Mufti Qaiser Farooq, was reportedly shot dead in Pakistan's Karachi. Farooq is believed to be a close aide of 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed. According to reports, a group of unknown men opened fire at Farooq near a religious institution in the Samanabad area on September 30. The 30-year-old, who suffered bullet wounds in the...

A Sikh restaurant owner, who earlier received threats from Khalistani elements for being vocal against them, has now claimed that his car was shot at and vandalised by the extremists in West London. A video posted on X by Insightuk2, which describes itself as a social movement of British Hindus and Indians, claimed that some unidentified assailants allegedly opened fire at the car of Harman Singh...

India has raised the matter with the UK government that its high commissioner was barred from entering a gurdwara in Scotland by radical British Sikh activists, India Today reported. Vikram Doraiswami was prevented from attending a meeting with the Glasgow Gurudwara committee members on Alberta Drive on Friday. The incident came amid a massive diplomatic row between India and Canada over the killi...

Addressing the California Republican Party convention on Friday, former US President Donald Trump mocked President Joe Biden by imitating his awkward act on a stage during an event last year. Trump, who is leading the 2024 presidential candidate race for the Democrats, questioned Biden’s mental and physical fitness to serve another term as president. Recalling an incident from last year, Trump imi...

A sea lion escaped from its pool at the Central Park Zoo on Friday amid severe flooding in New York City caused by flash floods. The marine mammal managed to swim out of its Central Park Zoo pool thanks to flooding of the plaza caused by torrential rains and flooding in the city, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society. 'Zoo staff monitored the sea lion as she explored the area before retur...

New York governor Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency after flash floods wreaked havoc in the city. Roads turned into rivers as shocking scenes unfolded amid heavy downpour. Several videos floating on social media showed massive waterlogging in different prominent areas. The weather department has predicted more rains in the coming days, indicating the trouble for New Yorkers is set to...

At least three people were killed and six others injured in a suicide blast inside a mosque in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, police said. The explosion took place at the mosque in Hangu district, Doaba Police Station SHO Shahraz Khan said. The blast occurred during the Juma prayers, he said, adding that 30 to 40 worshippers were there in the mosque at the time of the ex...

Donald Trump never misses a chance to remind voters that he was the one to appoint three justices to the US Supreme Court who voted to ditch the federal right to an abortion. But ask the 77-year-old what he thinks personally about abortion, and his position starts to shift, the self-declared "most pro-life president in American history" well aware of what a hardline stance might cost him at the po...