A once-promising candidate for habitability may actually be a superheated, magma-shrouded world—but its atmosphere could help unlock the secrets of planetary evolution across the galaxy.
Author: Desk
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India’s Thar Desert is defying expectations — satellite data reveals it’s turning greener, not drier. What’s behind this unlikely transformation in one of the world’s harshest landscapes?
It lived 94 million years ago… and it wasn’t supposed to be there. A newly discovered dinosaur fossil is rewriting evolutionary maps.
A mysterious mummy with razor-sharp teeth was discovered hidden in a campus ceiling at MSU. Years later, a curious student took on the case—and what she found only deepened the mystery.
After Bayern Munich’s exit to Inter in the Champions League quarterfinal, defender Kim Min-jae has come in for heavy criticism. But the defender’s poor form is symptomatic of a deeper issue in football.Bayern Munich’s dreams of playing in another Champions League final in Munich are over. There will be no chance to avenge the painful defeat of the 2012 finale dahoam (final at home) on May 31, and no fairytale farewell for departing legend Thomas Müller. The team looks set to win back the Bundesliga title by the end of this season, but the inquisition as to why Bayern are not seriously challenging for the Champions League title has already begun. South Korean defender Kim Min-jae is in the spotlight, and not in the way he would have wanted when he signed from Italian side Napoli in 2023. Four minutes before he was substituted in Milan, former Bayern defender Benjamin Pavard beat him to the ball from a corner to score. It was one of a handful of tricky moments for Kim, who was the easy target after the loss. Ge
Chinese President Xi Jinping is staging a charm offensive in the region while US President Donald Trump inflicts massive tariff pain.Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Cambodia on Thursday for the last leg of his week-long tour of Southeast Asia, which included earlier stops in Vietnam and Malaysia. Although his visit was scheduled months ago, it fell at an opportune moment for Beijing, with the international trade system in disarray because of the actions of US President Donald Trump. On April 2, Trump launched his tariff onslaught, unveiling steep “reciprocal” duties on goods coming into the US from most of its trading partners, including 49% tariffs on products from Cambodia, 46% on those coming from Vietnam and between 20%-30% on most other Southeast Asian countries. The tariff turmoil has hit trade and investment flows as well as financial markets. Most countries, including in Southeast Asia, are currently predicting a major global economic downturn. Several agencies have cut their growth forecasts
The comments from the Russian Foreign Ministry come after Germany’s presumptive next Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he was open to delivering the long-range missiles to Ukraine.The Russian Foreign Ministry on Thursday issued a stark warning to Germany over the possibility of long-range Taurus missiles being deployed in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that Russia would treat Taurus missile strikes on its “critical transport infrastructure” as “direct” German involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. Germany’s presumptive next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, said this past weekend that he is open to delivering the Taurus missiles to Ukraine provided it is done with coordination with European partners. European officials such as Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp and Polish Prime Minister Radoslaw Sikorski welcomed Merz’s comments on Taurus deliveries during a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. The Taurus KEPD-350 is capab
Russian authorities have removed the Taliban from their list of terrorist organizations. The Kremlin can now sign agreements with Afghanistan — and also improve its relations with the transitional government in Syria.In a closed session on April 17, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation “temporarily” lifted Russia’s ban on the Taliban. The request came from the office of the prosecutor general. This motion was based on a decree President Vladimir Putin had issued a year ago, making it possible for the Taliban, an ultraconservative political and religious movement in Afghanistan, to be removed from Russia’s list of terrorist organizations. The Taliban regained power in Kabul in 2021 after the withdrawal of international coalition forces from Afghanistan. According to Russian law, any Taliban member entering Russia must be arrested and could face up to 20 years in prison on charges of engaging in terrorist activity. In practice, though, no Taliban member has been detained on entering Russia since 2016. Th
Polish activists gave food and clothes to a group of refugees before trying to smuggle them to safety. Now they are on trial and could face years in prison.About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the Bialystok courthouse in northern Poland on a recent April morning to show support for five Poles on trial here. Four of the five appeared for the trial, and the fifth failed to appear. Demonstrators held up signs reading “Freedom for the five,” “Helping is not a crime,” or “Laws can’t smother the truth.” A group of drum-banging young people approached. Others yelled words of encouragement to the defendants, shouting, “You’ll never walk alone!” Cheers erupted when the four appeared in court. In March 2022, the five gave water, food and clothing to a desperate Iraqi couple, their seven children and an elderly Egyptian man who was with them. The refugees had illegally crossed the Belarus-Polish border and had spent several days living in the woods. The five Poles then decided to drive the group to the next closest