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2,400-year-old artifact from Ancient Olympia returned to Greece from GermanyPhoto credit: Greece Ministry of Culture A young German tourist visiting the archeological site of Ancient Olympia in Greece in the 1960s took home a small piece of history: a shard of pottery dating back some 2,400 years. She held on to the relic for decades…

Colonies of Laurinque elenya. Image Credit: ROV SuBastian Scientists exploring deep-sea mountains beneath the Pacific Ocean off Costa Rica have discovered a striking ‘golden coral’ so different from known species that researchers created an entirely new family to classify it. The bright yellow, tree-like coral was found between 360 and 529 metres below the surface,…

Sandy Dosanjh with husband Kalwinder Sandy Dosanjh, the wife of Vancouver Police Department detective Kalwinder “Kal” Singh Dosanjh, is no longer running for Surrey City Council in the 2026 municipal election after her husband’s arrest. The Conservative Party of Surrey confirmed that she had been removed from its slate of candidates.Sandy had been contesting a…

Visingsö Oak Forest. Image Credit: Atlas Obscura In the early 19th century, Sweden began an extraordinary project on the island of ‘Visingsö.’ Hundreds of thousands of oak trees were planted to secure timber for naval ships that would be built far in the future. Oak was strong, durable and widely valued for wooden shipbuilding, but…

Nigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed built his first model house with 14,800 sand-filled plastic bottle (Image Credit: BBC) What if thousands of discarded plastic bottles could become part of a house instead of ending up in gutters or landfills? In Kaduna, Nigerian engineer Yahaya Ahmed has spent more than a decade exploring that possibility. His first…

Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens were kicked out of the US Open after posting their credentials online, according to their account/ Instagram @The VIP List Two New York-based content creators have claimed they were thrown out of the US Open and had their credentials revoked just hours after posting pictures of their passes online.Meg Radice…

Aryna Sabalenka, of Belarus, reacts during a match against Camila Osorio, of Colombia, during the first round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 31, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Aryna Sabalenka has joked that she might “get high” herself if the cannabis smell keeps drifting around the US Open after briefly…

Meg Radice and Audrey Jongens were kicked out of the US Open after posting their credentials online, according to their account/ Instagram @The VIP List Two New York-based content creators have claimed they were thrown out of the US Open and had their credentials revoked just hours after posting pictures of their passes online.Meg Radice…

A study released 20 captive-bred eastern quolls at Tasmania’s 6,500-hectare Silver Plains conservation property. (Photo: Booderee NP) The eastern quoll, a small nocturnal marsupial once common across eastern Australia, is showing signs of recovery after years of decline. Captive-bred eastern quolls released in Tasmania have successfully reproduced, with one female carrying six joeys in her…

A drought-hit community in northern Chile has found an unusual source of water in something that usually passes unnoticed. On the hills above Peña Blanca, in the Coquimbo region, giant mesh nets are positioned to intercept coastal fog, locally known as camanchaca, as it moves inland from the Pacific. Tiny droplets suspended in the fog…