Before the 1960s, the fourth largest lake on Earth glistened for miles across the borders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. By 2015 most of that shiny surface was reduced to a hauntingly barren expanse, birthing the world’s newest desert and impacting 3 million people that live in the surrounding region. The Aral Sea once spanned 68,000 […]
NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a federal case that accuses him of stockpiling the largest number of finished explosives in FBI history and using President Joe Biden’s photo for target practice. Chained at his legs and wearing an orange jumpsuit, Brad Spafford, 36, said little beyond answering mostly […]
At this point, any serious retro gamer knows that a bulky cathode ray tube (CRT) TV provides the most authenticlag-free experience for game consoles that predate the era of flat-panel HDTVs (i.e,. before the Xbox 360/PlayStation 3 era). But modern gamers used to massive flat panel HD displays might balk at the display size of […]
QUICK FACTS Name: Denmark Strait cataract Location: Denmark Strait Coordinates: 67.06195932031873, -23.96634920730749 Why it’s incredible: The cataract is the world’s biggest waterfall, taller even than Angel Falls. The Denmark Strait cataract is a submarine waterfall in the ocean channel between Iceland and Greenland. It is technically the world’s largest waterfallwith waters plunging 11,500 feet (3,500 […]
Authorities in the Dominican Republican say cocaine discovered in the country’s largest-ever seizure was headed to Europe. Hidden in a banana shipment, officials found 9,500kg of the drug at a port in the capital, Santo Domingo. The cocaine was hidden in 320 bags with an estimated street value of $250 million (£196 million). At least […]
The rapid advance on Aleppo came just four days into a surprise rebel offensive that is the most intense escalation in years in a civil war that was mostly dormant.
A gang of orcas off the coast of Mexico have learned how to hunt whale sharks — the world’s largest shark species — and their tactics are brutal. One male individual was present at the majority of these hunting events, researchers say, suggesting he may be driving this predatory behavior. “The animals have shown us […]
Pocketpair isn’t letting a major lawsuit slow it down. The developer has announced that its Pokémon-like hit Palworld is getting a big update in December, which will add a new island to the game. It’s described as the “largest, harshest, and most mysterious” location in the game, measuring around six times the size of Sakurajima, […]
Scores of people were killed after forces opposed to the government of President Bashar al-Assad overtook a Syrian military base, a monitoring group reported.
The sparkling band of the Milky Way Galaxy backdrops the Nicholas U. Mayall 4-meter Telescope, located at Kitt Peak National Observatory. Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks When Albert Einstein introduced his theory of general relativity in 1915, it changed the way we viewed the universe. His gravitational model showed how Newtonian gravity, which had dominated astronomy and […]
