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DEBATE OF THE WEEK: Should we change the way we live?

THE NEWS: The population has exploded in the last 200 years. Now it is going into reverse. Experts worry this could be one shock too many.  Rapid population growth is a very new phenomenon. After 300,000 years on the planet, we only hit one billion people in 1804. That doubled 123 years later. Since 1974 […]
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Easy Science Experiments for Kids

Imagine blowing the biggest bubbles imaginable — or even making bubbles within bubbles. Or sending vessels — rockets, tea bags, airplanes — soaring through the sky for impossible distances. Now imagine making things explode, or change colors, or reveal hidden messages with just a few simple mixtures. None of this is magic. It’s all science […]
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“Mummified Aliens” presented to Mexico Congress

During a public hearing in the Mexican Congress, two alleged ‘alien corpses’ were unveiled alongside videos displaying UFOs and anomalous phenomena. Experts testified that these small, “non-human” specimens were not part of Earth’s evolution but were found in diatom mines, later fossilized. The specimens, believed to be 1,000 years old and retrieved from Cusco, Peru, […]
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DEBATE OF THE DAY:Should we all be more wacky?

IN THE NEWS: A bizarre story from the American midwest has some dwelling on what we have lost. They think a slightly madder world would be a happier place.  One bright Wednesday morning, 911 operators in the US state of Nebraska received a strange phone call. The caller told them there was a car driving […]
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A rising Space power: Indian spacecraft lands near the Moon’s south pole in world first.

India has joined the exclusive club of countries that have landed a spacecraft on the Moon, after the United States, the USSR and China. For around 20 minutes on Wednesday, August 23, the country remained riveted to its screens. All eyes were on Chandrayaan-3, whose Vikram lander began its crucial descent toward the Moon. The […]
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Debate Of The Day: Is God back?

THE NEWS: It is almost 150 years since German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared that “God is dead”. Now some believe young people are leading a religious revival. Thomas the Apostle was often late to the party. He was the last of the apostles to accept the resurrection of Jesus, earning him the name Doubting Thomas. […]
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46,000-year-old worms brought back to life from Siberian permafrost

Scientists discovered and reanimated two kinds of frozen microscopic nematodes or roundworms in Siberia five years ago. A new study on them published last Thursday reveals their secrets, including the fact that they are 46,000 years old and one of them is an entirely new species that has never before been discovered. Many animals like […]
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Debate of the Week: Do monsters keep us sane?

THE NEWS: This month, volunteers from across the world will flock to Loch Ness to try to spot an ancient beast. Some think they might just be on to something.   In 565 AD, a monk named Saint Columba, travelling through Scotland, came across some locals burying a man by the River Ness.The man, they explained, […]
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DEBATE OF THE Week: WILL AMERICAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE?

To slightly misquote Oscar Wilde: one indictment may be regarded as a misfortune; two looks like carelessness. And what about three? Last week, former and would-be future president Donald Trump was indicted for the third time this year, this time on federal charges related to an attempt to subvert the 2020 election. Another indictment? It […]
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DEBATE OF THE DAY: Do bans ever work?

THE NEWS: More and more teenagers around the world say that they vape. And with sales of legal e-cigarettes banned to under-18s, many are turning to illegally produced products.  Lead, nickel and chromium. Would you willingly eat these? Probably not-but these chemicals were found in vapes taken from students.  Tests showed that people who used […]