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12/08/2025

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08/08/2025

Canyons carved by ancient rivers on Mars indicate that the planet was once warm enough for liquid water, and even possibly life.

However, the Red Planet today is a barren desert, and a new study has now provided a possible explanation for why Mars, unlike Earth, never remains warm for long.

“We’ve had this huge unanswered question for why Earth has managed to keep its habitability while Mars lost it,” lead study author Edwin Kite said in a statement. “People have been looking for a tomb for the atmosphere for years.”

In April, as part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, NASA’s Curiosity rover found rocks rich in carbonate minerals on Mount Sharp.

The rover’s discovery provided the crucial, missing piece, showing evidence of carbon dioxide locked into rock, providing insights into what happened to Mars’ thick atmosphere.

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04/08/2025

A century-old shipwreck lying at the bottom of the sea off the coast of Belgium has been given a new purpose – to serve as a breeding ground for a stash of rare flat oysters.

They have nowhere else to go.

“Until around the 1850s, the North Sea and the European waters were full of these oyster reefs,” project engineer Vicky Stratigaki told Agence France-Presse.

Today, it is almost impossible to find the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) in the North Sea, as it has been nearly wiped out by overfishing, environmental degradation, and a persistent parasite.

“We have to bring them back because they are essential elements in our marine ecosystems,” continued Stratigaki.

Flat oysters, often called ecosystem engineers, create reefs that serve as breeding and feeding grounds for a wide range of marine animals, from fish to algae, Blue Cluster (De Blauwe Cluster) explained.

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31/07/2025

Before cats became adored companions and Internet royalty, their early relationship with humans may have had darker origins, namely, mass ritual sacrifice, according to two new studies.

Scholars have long believed that feline domestication began with wildcats loitering around the first Neolithic farms as they hunted rodents.

But the recent findings – still awaiting peer review – suggest that the first domestic cats (Felis catus) appeared in Egypt around 3,000 years ago and were raised in vast numbers for mass ritual sacrifice.

In the first paper, lead author Sean Doherty and his team reassessed cat remains from archaeological sites across Europe and North Africa using radiocarbon dating, morphology, and genetic comparisons.

They found that remains once thought to belong to early domesticated cats – such as those from a 9,500-year-old site in Cyprus – turned out to resemble wildcats or had been misdated, often due to small feline bones shifting in soil layers over time.

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25/07/2025

Do you know which of the following countries has the most public holidays?

Iran

India

Nepal

Liechtenstein

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24/07/2025

Archeologists recently sequenced the complete genome of an Ancient Egyptian man, who lived around the time of the first pyramids more than 4,500 years ago.

The man’s remains were originally unearthed in Nuwayrat – a village more than 160 miles from Cairo – in the early 20th century.

Now a new genetic study of the skeleton has revealed a closer connection between ancient Egypt and the eastern Fertile Crescent, which includes present-day Iraq, western Iran, and parts of Syria and Turkey, than initially thought.

“He lived and died during a critical period of change in ancient Egypt,” explained co-senior author Linus Girdland Flink in a statement. “We’ve now been able to tell part of the individual’s story, finding that some of his ancestry came from the Fertile Crescent, highlighting mixture between groups at this time.”

The skeleton was excavated in 1902 and donated to World Museum Liverpool, where it then survived bombings during the Blitz in World War II that destroyed most of the human remains in their collection.

Radiocarbon dating of the skeleton confirmed that it belonged to a middle-aged man who died sometime between 2855 and 2570 BCE. Flink and his colleagues believe the man was in his 60s at the time of his death – an unusually old age for that era.

The man appeared to have lived a physically demanding life. His bones bore signs of extended sitting and reaching forward, leading researchers to suggest he may have worked as a potter.

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23/07/2025

Ukrainians Protest after New Law Cracks Down on Anti-Corruption Agencies

Thousands of Ukrainians across the country hit the streets in protests on Tuesday after the country’s parliament quickly passed a bill to limit the powers of two key anti-corruption agencies, weakening the independence of institutions central to the country’s reform agenda and possibly hindering its path toward membership of the European Union, Reuters reported.

At marches in major cities in the country’s west, demonstrators said they didn’t want to revert to Russian-style governance in Ukraine, referring to the administration of former President Viktor Yanukovych, who was ousted by a mass uprising in 2014.

In the capital Kyiv, protesters carrying flags and handmade signs chanted “Veto the law,” and “No corruption in government,” the Kyiv Post reported. In Lviv, they yelled, “Shame!” and “Corruption is the death of the future.”

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17/07/2025

UK Secretly Relocated Thousands of Afghans Following Data Leak

The United Kingdom secretly relocated thousands of Afghans who worked with British military forces deployed in Afghanistan after the UK government accidentally leaked their identities three years ago, putting them at risk of attack from the Taliban following their return to power, Reuters reported.

The leak, the subject of a scandal currently gripping the UK, occurred in early 2022 after a Ministry of Defense employee accidentally sent an email to an individual outside of the government containing a spreadsheet with details of Afghans who worked for the British government and had applied to relocate to the UK ahead of the Taliban’s takeover in 2021.

The previous UK administration, led by conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, set up the secret relocation scheme – estimated to cost the government about $2.7 billion – due to concerns that the individuals whose identities had been leaked could be targeted by the Taliban, who regained control of Afghanistan following the withdrawal of Western forces.

After the initial leak in 2022, the private data was published on Facebook the following year. Both the leak and the secret relocation scheme were subject to a so-called super-injunction, meaning that the media was forbidden from reporting on it.

A court lifted the super-injunction on Tuesday.

According to the government, about 4,500 Afghans and their families have been relocated – or were about to be – under the secret scheme.

This incident is considered one of the worst security breaches in modern British history due to the costs and the danger it posed to thousands of Afghans.

Those affected by the leak have sued the government.

16/07/2025

Japan Unveils New Agency to Ease Concerns About Foreigners as Elections Approach

Japan established a new administrative body Tuesday in response to public concerns over the sharp increase in foreigners in the country in recent years, a move that comes less than a week before elections in which immigration features prominently, Reuters reported.

Government officials said the new organization will serve as a cross-agency “control tower” responsible for addressing issues linked to foreigners, such as crime and overtourism.

The body was formed last month after a group of lawmakers belonging to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) proposed initiatives for a “society of orderly and harmonious coexistence with foreign nationals.”

Some of those initiatives included stricter requirements for foreigners seeking to buy real estate or switch their license to a Japanese one.

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15/07/2025

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14/07/2025

Organisms usually move upward on the evolutionary ladder, losing some traits to gain better ones.

And then there are those who move backward.

A new study has found that some wild tomatoes from the Galápagos Islands are undergoing a possible “reverse evolution,” de-evolving to a primitive genetic state by recreating a toxic molecular cocktail that serves as a defense mechanism, and one that has not been seen in millions of years.

“It’s not something we usually expect,” lead study author Adam Jozwiak said in a statement. “But here it is, happening in real time, on a volcanic island.”

Nightshade plants, like tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants, produce bitter-tasting molecules known as alkaloids to protect themselves from fungi, insects, and larger animals. However, too many alkaloids can make the plants toxic and dangerous for humans, explained New Atlas.

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30/06/2025

Meal options are pretty limited at the bottom of the seafloor.

That might explain why three species of sea spiders are “farming” their own food.

Scientists say they are even cultivating it in the form of methane-eating microbes directly on their own bodies, according to a new study.

Lead study author Shana Goffredi and her team discovered this novel farming method after they collected the three tiny species – which are very different from terrestrial spiders – from methane seeps off the coasts of California and Alaska.

The marine arthropods are from the Sericosura genus and were found with bacterial colonies coating their exoskeletons, which the authors dubbed as “microbial fur coat.”

But these colonies weren’t just hitching a ride – rather, the spiders and microbes were in a novel symbiotic relationship.

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