In a groundbreaking discovery that could rewrite our understanding of Earth’s inner dynamics, geologists have revealed that the Indian Plate, the massive slab of Earth’s crust carrying the subcontinent, is splitting in two. A part of it is peeling away and sinking deep into the Earth’s mantle, a process known as delamination. This hidden and…
For at least six centuries, residents along a lake in the mountains of central Japan have marked the depth of winter by celebrating the return of a natural phenomenon once revered as the trail of a wandering god. It would only appear after days of frigid temperatures had frozen Lake Suwa into a sheet of…
Helen Hays, an intrepid ornithologist who for nearly 50 years led scores of volunteers to Great Gull Island, a postage-stamp islet in Long Island Sound, where they endured dive-bombing birds and fierce ocean storms to help revitalize it as one of the world’s largest nesting sites for common and roseate terns, died on Feb. 5…
For decades, successive presidents in Washington have favored some version of a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What no one imagined until now was that the second state would be American, not Palestinian. President Trump’s stunning plan to displace the entire Palestinian population of Gaza and have the United States take over the seaside…
Kevin Pietersen said that he’s not worried about Sanju Samson’s technique of playing short balls to express pace. On Tuesday, January 28, Samson got out pulling off Jofra Archer in India’s third T20I against Jos Buttler’s England at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Samson scored three off six balls as India lost their first…
A Canadian homeowner captured rare and dramatic video of a meteorite striking Earth, leaving a small crater on his walkway. The meteorite, estimated to be between the size of a golf ball and a baseball, slammed into the brick walkway of Joe Velaidum’s home in Prince Edward Island last July, scattering debris and producing a…
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas message on Wednesday urged “all people of all nations” to find courage during this Holy Year “to silence the sounds of arms and overcome divisions” plaguing the world, from the Middle East to Ukraine, Africa to Asia. The pontiff’s “Urbi et Orbi” — “To the City and…
University of Miami athletic director Dan Radakovich did not hold back his disappointment upon learning that his Hurricanes were ranked No. 12 in Tuesday’s latest College Football Playoff rankings, and thus out of the 12-team field in favor of No. 11 Alabama, who earned the last at-large bid in this iteration. Michigan AD Warde Manuel,…