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The island was protected as a National Seashore in 1965. (Picture: NPS) Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland is known for its undeveloped beaches, wildlife and natural coastal habitats. But plans were once in place to turn large parts of Assateague into a resort community with homes, roads, commercial areas and other infrastructure.The island’s story…

Luca McGillPhoto: Society for Science When 13-year-old Luca McGill set out to measure carbon dioxide in Arizona, he assumed the busiest city streets would naturally produce the highest levels. However, his custom drone experiments revealed a completely different reality. As documented by the Society for Science, which highlights young researchers through its Thermo Fisher Scientific…

The family had travelled from London to Shoreham for a day out. A six-year-old British-Palestinian girl has died in hospital days after she and her family got into difficulty in the sea off Shoreham in West Sussex, in a tragedy that claimed the lives of her parents and teenage sister.Saja El-Khawas, from London, was pulled…

Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa says US should replace H-1B visa with a startup visa now. Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa said the US should absolutely end the H-1B visa program as it is doing more harm than good to both the US and India. Wadhwa said the visa program once played an important role in making…

A Boeing 737 aircraft that was originally the part of the Canadian Airlines fleet now lies nearly 90 feet underwater and serves the role of an artificial reef for marine life. The 100-foot jet was decommissioned by Air Canada due to age and structural problems, stripped of all usable components and the airframe was donated…

When you are a royal, everything is high class. From your clothes to your travelling vehicles, everything associated with you is expected to abide by certain standards. Thus, when the royals travelled from London to Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, they had a special station of their own. Originally known as Wolferton Station, the terminal was…

US President Donald Trump. A US federal judge has struck down the Trump administration’s policy suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, calling the nationality-based restrictions “patently unlawful.”US District Judge Jeannette Vargas in Manhattan ruled on Friday that the policy exceeded Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s legal authority and conflicted with…

The fear of death has troubled humanity for centuries, but Socrates believed there was another danger that deserved far greater concern, compromising one’s principles. In Plato’s Apology, Socrates argues that “the difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness.” The remark came during his trial in Athens, when he faced the…

File photo: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkish President Erdogan Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a sharp attack on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Ankara sought an Interpol Red Notice for Netanyahu and an Israeli official over an alleged attack on activists delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.Netanyahu’s office called Erdogan an “antisemitic dictator”…

Cornell is one of the biggest and most esteemed universities in the world, sitting on a hill overlooking the 38-mile-long Cayuga Lake with an area of 2,300 acres. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, most institutions, including Cornell, used CFC chillers. These first-generation Ozone-Depleting Substances (ODSs) were destroying the ozone layer and warming the…