12 people arrested in connection with UK A66 crash that killed 7, including 2 police officers
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·50m ago
Twelve people have been arrested in connection with criminal activity allegedly linked to a crash on the UK's A66 that killed seven people, including two police officers.
'I was living paycheck to paychek': Woman says coming back to India from UK after 4 years not happiest decision but right one for nervous system
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·1h ago
At a time when students outside India are in a fix to decide whether going back to India would be a better decision because of immigration bottlenecks, Arshiya Mahajan, an Indian woman shared her...
Researchers developed custom 3D-printed replacements for missing sections of ancient pottery and embedded sensors inside them, allowing conservators to monitor temperature, strain and environmental damage
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·1h ago
Imagine an ancient amphora recovered from the seabed after centuries underwater. It may be cracked, covered with deposits or missing large sections.
Some stars repeatedly skim past supermassive black holes, lose material and survive; scientists now think their unusually rapid spin explains why each returning flare becomes progressively dimmer
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·1h ago
Some stars can make repeated close passes around supermassive black holes, losing part of their material each time while surviving to return again.
James Webb telescope discovered three Supermassive black holes more than 12.5 billion light-years away
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·2h ago
Light from a distant galaxy has travelled for more than 12.5 billion years to reach Earth, allowing astronomers to see the universe when it was only about 1.2 billion years old.
Albany Police Department issues BOLO for a man who picked $30 from the floor while shopping at Walmart; faces backlash, says no charges will be filed
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·2h ago
The Albany Police Department issued a Be on the Lookout order for a man who apparently picked up $30 from the floor while shopping at Walmart.
Scientists checked 109 owl nests in Turkey and found live snakes inside 44% of them, with a surprising twist
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·3h ago
A nest box occupied by a Eurasian scops owl might seem an unlikely place to find a live snake, yet that is exactly what researchers repeatedly encountered in central Türkiye.
In 1998, Costa Rica spread 12,000 tonnes of orange waste over degraded pasture; 16 years later, tree diversity had tripled and forest biomass was 176% higher
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·3h ago
In the late 1990s, an unusual conservation experiment began in Costa Rica when ecologists proposed using orange peels and pulp to help restore a badly degraded piece of land inside a national park.
Trump, Melania in heated exchange? Brief Grand Prix video clip sparks online buzz
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·3h ago
A brief interaction between US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump at the Freedom 250 Grand Prix in Washington, DC, has drawn attention online after footage appeared to show Melania...
A California family once refused to sell land needed for the 1960 Winter Olympics; the state offered $103,000, but the owner demanded $440,000
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·3h ago
Wayne Poulsen was the man who found Squaw Valley in the first place. In 1943, he and his wife Sandy bought 640 acres there from the Southern Pacific Railroad, and by 1948 he had partnered with New...
In 1982, Larry Walters floated in the sky for 45 minutes in his lawn chair tied to 42 balloons; 11 years later, he shot himself to death
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·4h ago
The Internet still can't believe that a Los Angeles man in 1982 tied a few balloons to a lawn chair and flew in the sky for 45 minutes.
Meet Vick Tan: The Minnesota student who turned a teabag into a low-cost filter that removed more than 90% of arsenic from water
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·4h ago
A small teabag may not seem like much of a solution to polluted drinking water, but for Minnesota student Vick Tan, it became the centre of a science project that went far beyond the classroom.
Cops used electrocution gloves to subdue high school students in Omaha, now the school district and parents are pleading with police to stop: 'Supposed to be a safe space for students'
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·4h ago
Earlier in August, news broke that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement planned to shell out $20 million to acquire thousands of electric-shock gloves.
An abandoned Mississippi shed was covered in snake skins; cameras revealed why gray ratsnakes kept returning
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·6h ago
In central Mississippi, researchers stumbled across an abandoned shed covered in old snakeskins, an odd enough sight that they decided to set up cameras rather than simply walk away.
What happened between YouTubers MeganPlays and Leah Ashe? Their friendship fallout explained
Times of Indiaby Global Sports Desk·7h ago
YouTubers MeganPlays and Leah Ashe were once very close friends and popular names in the Roblox community. They made videos together and even shared a Roblox channel.
US professor faces possible termination after 'word salad' remark during faculty meeting sparks discrimination probe
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·7h ago
A US professor has spent nearly a year under investigation after a colleague accused him of racial discrimination over his use of the phrase “word salad” during a faculty meeting at a New York...
Scottish athlete won her country a medal at the Commonwealth Games, but had to return to her McDonald's job days later
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·7h ago
You can be at the peak one moment and then at the base the next. That's how unpredictable life's highs and lows can be.
In 1900, JP Morgan bought 117 acres including Maine’s Sand Beach as a wedding gift; his granddaughter later donated about 100 acres to Acadia National Park
Times of Indiaby TOI World Desk·7h ago
In 1900, financier J P Morgan bought 117 acres in Maine, including Sand Beach and Great Head, as a wedding gift for his daughter Louisa. The land is now part of Acadia National Park.
In 2005, crickets were fertilised aboard the ISS; 112 embryos and larvae were studied, and the microgravity-exposed larvae hatched earlier than ground controls
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·7h ago
In 2005, scientists conducted an unusual experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to investigate how microgravity affects reproduction and early development.
Freezing liquid inside optical fibre makes light and sound interact more than 1,000 times more strongly
Times of Indiaby TOI Science Desk·7h ago
Freezing liquid inside an optical fibre has helped scientists create an unusual environment where light and sound can interact more than 1,000 times more strongly than they do in ordinary optical...
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