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Michelin has awarded Australia’s first stars ever: two for Magill Estate Restaurant in Adelaide and one each for ten more venues, all in South Australia, the state that paid to bring the inspectors in.
Off Kekova Island in Antalya, archaeologists have found the cargo of a small trade ship that sank 4,400 to 4,700 years ago, making it the oldest shipwreck known anywhere. Some of its clay jars still hold a mysterious residue.
Passengers usually see flight attendants in one setting only: the narrow aisle of an airplane, balancing trays and smiling through turbulence. But what happens when the plane lands, the passengers leave and there are twenty-four hours before the next flight? This clip lifts the curtain a little. It starts in a casual mood, with a…
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Mount Sinai researchers, NASA and Space Tango have launched lab-grown mini hearts and brains on CRS-35 to see how microgravity and radiation speed up aging, with lessons for astronauts and for patients on Earth.
Science Corporation has implanted its PRIMA retinal chip in the first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited condition with no approved cure, and says he was able to read a word during rehabilitation.
Most people walk down stairs without thinking about it. One foot, then the other, eyes on the phone, mind on lunch. Then there is the man in this clip, who treats every flight of stairs like a red carpet and every courtyard like a stage. The scene is a workshop somewhere warm and sunny. There…
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Five tankers and a container ship were reported attacked on October 11 in and near the strait and off Oman, while Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said they set another supertanker on fire.
The Stanford and Columbia economists share the 2026 prize for grounding macroeconomic models in the choices of real households and firms, work that now sits behind interest rate decisions around the world.
Every child who owns a pink toy jeep believes it is the fastest car in the world. Most parents smile, nod and quietly note that it tops out at roughly walking pace. In this family’s garden, however, the toy jeep seems to have had a little help. The setting is idyllic: a huge green lawn,…
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The US president said both sides had agreed to stop attacking energy infrastructure. Zelenskyy called it news to him, Moscow stayed silent, and strikes on power stations continued the same day.