The International Balloon Festival, which is held annually in the southwest Japanese city of Saga, has resumed after a two-year Covid-19 hiatus. The 50 hot air balloons that took off at the festival gave visual feast for the audience amid fewer participants this year due to pandemic. “It was unfortunate that we could not see […]
A green fireball blazing across England lit up skies in yesterday evening. The meteorite-like object was seen from Yorkshire in the north of England to the capital London. Local media suggest that the object could be a mass of high-speed matter coming from space, and it illuminated the sky due to friction within the atmosphere.
Flash floods hit Indonesian island of Java after heavy rains. Dozens of households were destroyed, and 5 people were killed, authorities said. According to Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB), heavy rains caused rivers flooding at Arjuno Mountain, submerging five regions in Kota Batu city. Authorities announced that search and rescue efforts continue for […]
Hot chili peppers grown as part of the Plant Habitat-04 experiment conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) and announced to be harvested recently were displayed. French astronaut Thomas Pesquet posted images of hot peppers grown in space on his ISS social media account. Megan McArthur, one of the astronauts on the ISS, shared on […]
Iranians gathered at the former US embassy in Tehran to mark the 42nd anniversary of takeover of the US embassy and hostage crisis on 04 November 1979. The USA granted permission to Shah to be hospitalized in the United States, causing 52 diplomats and guards to be held hostage in the embassy by Iranian students […]
A fire broke out on the 18th floor of a 30-storey high rise residential apartment in the Elephant and Castle district of London, England. The surrounding of the building was evacuated shortly after being cordoned off by the police. Sixty firefighters intervened in the flames with eight fire engines. The street where the building is […]
In the US, construction companies Lennar and ICON will build a next-generation neighborhood that will consist entirely of 3D houses with a joint project. The project, which will be built in Austin, Texas, is planned to become the world’s largest 3D housing neighborhood. The project’s scope calls for the construction of 100 single-story concrete houses […]
Azerbaijani government officials decided to protect the traces of Armenian destruction while construction and repair work continued in Ganja, one of the regions most affected by Armenian Armed Forces attacks during the Second Karabakh War. Concordantly, one of the areas where the missile landed will be preserved as an open-air museum. “The brutality of the […]
In the Araklı district of Trabzon in Turkey, the German Shepherd dog named ‘Fero’ waits at the grave of its owner Ömer Güven, who passed away 4 days ago. Ömer Güven’s children, who said that Fero cried with them when their father died, said that there was a special bond between their father and Fero. […]
Sinop University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Biology Department Lecturer Assoc. Dr. Güley Kurt Coşkun and her student Dr. Sevgi Kuş, as well as Ege University Faculty of Fisheries Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Melih Ertan Çınar, conducted a comprehensive study on the Nephtyidae (Annelida) family members found along Turkey’s Black Sea and Marmara Sea coasts. […]