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PC: Memorial University Gazette A Memorial palaeobiology graduate student has discovered a new fossil species in rocks from Newfoundland that are dated to 551 million years old. Heléna Muirhead-Hunt found the fossils at Inner Meadow in Upper Island Cove, a site known for preserving soft-bodied organisms without shells or bones. According to Memorial University’s Gazette,…

In February 2025, Guinness World Records recognised them as the ‘longest-married living couple of different sexes,’ When Manoel Angelim Dino first met Maria de Sousa Dino in the 1930s, the two were young people working in agriculture for their respective families in Ceará, Brazil. Their first meeting did not immediately lead to a relationship. They…

A tiny Buddha statue bought for just over SEK 20 at a Swedish flea market in the 1980s has turned into a multimillion-kronor discovery after experts identified it as a rare work from China’s Ming dynasty. The gilt-bronze statue of Shakyamuni Buddha, which had spent decades in a private Swedish home, fetched a final price…

Jagjit Singh Sandhu/Image: Indians in Canada Facebook page A Punjabi man stabbed in the neck in Mississauga, Canada, has died from his injuries, while a woman has been charged in connection with the attack.The deceased has been identified as Jagjit Singh Sandhu. His sister, Jaspreet Kaur, said the stabbing took place on September 6 outside…

His gold medals came in the men’s 200m, 400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle events, along with three relay titles. At six, Zhang Zhanshuo was the youngest swimmer in a local competition and had barely begun learning the sport. At 19, he left the Asian Games 2026 with seven gold medals and a place in the…

Anna Luisa Beserra is currently known as an environmental entrepreneur. But before she went into business, she was an environmental changemaker. At just 15, she came up with Aqualuz, a system that uses just sunlight to eliminate microorganisms in rainwater without chemicals or complex filters.As a teenager, Beserra was motivated by the lack of clean…

The global solar capacity is growing rapidly, so much so that by 2030, approximately 100 million households will rely on rooftop solar, according to the International Energy Agency. According to research by the World Economic Forum, covering only about 50% of the world’s existing rooftops with solar panels could meet total global electricity demand. One…

Lei Jun posing for a picture at Wuhan university in 1990. (Photo credit: Wuhan University/ chinadaily.com.cn) Lei Jun, the founder, chairman and CEO of Xiaomi grew up in a modest family in China, studied computer science at Wuhan University and went on to build one of the world’s best-known technology companies. His father was a…

Vancouver workers expecting to find boxes of T-shirts inside a shipping container instead discovered 14 duffle bags containing 328.55 kg of cocaine worth an estimated C$5.8 million, according to police. The seizure is the largest cocaine seizure in the history of the Vancouver Police Department.The drugs were discovered by employees at a legitimate Vancouver-based company…

Walls of Public Life. Image Credit: ANOMALIA Seoul became the setting for an unique architectural experiment in 2025, where a public installation was made from mushroom mycelium and agricultural waste instead of conventional building materials. Named as Walls of Public Life, the project was created by Mumbai-based Anomalia for the 5th Seoul Biennale of Architecture…