As the vernal equinox heralds the first day of spring, all across the world, unique phenomena can be seen on this day alone. For thousands of years humans have known that around the day marked on the Gregorian calendar as March 20th (or 21st, but we’ll get into that later) the…
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A sensory t-shirt that monitors a patient’s vital signs after cancer surgery could help them leave the hospital sooner to recover at home. The garment is worn for around two weeks under clothes three times each day—and patients felt more reassured than a control group in a pilot study involving 70…
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45 years ago today, Pink Floyd’s single, Another Brick in the Wall, hit No.1 on Billboard, beginning an 11-week domination at the top of the charts. From their rock opera album The Wall, written by bassist Roger Waters, it is a protest song against rigid schooling—and features a local elementary school…
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Now from Turkiye comes the story of an annual spring reunion that has captivated the hearts of a nation for 14 years. It involves a simple rural fisherman Adem Yilmaz, waiting in his boat for the return of a dear friend: a white stork named Yaren. Casting his lines and nets…
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NASA announced on X yesterday that an additional, and unexpected welcoming party arrived to greet returning astronauts Berry Wilmore and Sunita Williams. Splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico, teams on boats arrived to help the astronauts out of the Crew 9 Dragon Capsule, when a pod of bottlenose dolphins arrived…
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Astronomers have identified 4 exoplanets orbiting the nearest single star to Earth, an effort that had been ongoing for 50 years and produced many false positives. These rather small planets are a stone’s throw from Earth in galactic terms, but were too small for previous instruments to detect. Barnard’s Star is…
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Millions of his Chinese countrymen have taken to social media to applaud the moment this kindergarten security guard began to waltz with a child who was left behind by her mom that day. The guard, named Liu Jie, saw that the mother of one girl at a kindergarten in eastern Shandong…
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