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A major winter storm system passed through the United States on Tuesday, dumping sleet, freezing rain, and snow across the Northern Plains and Upper Great Lakes while posing a tornado and flood risk throughout the South. Reuters reports that the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts heavy snowfall in parts of Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota on Tuesday, accompanied by thunder and more than a foot of snow accumulation is expected. Strong, gusty winds were expected to cause drifting and blowing snow to make road travel virtually impossible in some areas. In addition, snow fog, mist and freezing rain created hazardous…

An unmanned spacecraft from South Korea has returned images of Earth and the moon after reaching the moon’s orbit last month, according to the state space research center. South Korean News Agency (Yonhap) reported that the orbiter performed three lunar orbit insertion (LOI) maneuvers on December 17 in order to lower its speed before entering selenocentric orbit on December 27. During Danuri’s second round of LOI on Dec. 24, the first photo was taken approximately 345 kilometers above the moon, while the second was snapped four days later while rotating around Earth’s satellite, according to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute…

Egyptian officials said Monday that a wooden sarcophagus on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences was returned to Egypt after being looted years ago. Egyptian government efforts to stop the trafficking of antiquities are behind the repatriation. AP reports that Cairo authorities succeeded in returning 5,300 stolen artifacts to Egypt in 2021. Mostafa Waziri, chief of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said the sarcophagus dates back to the Late Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt, from 664 B.C. until Alexander the Great’s campaign in 332 B.C. The sarcophagus, almost 3 meters (9.5 feet) tall with a brightly painted top…

ADNEC Group is preparing to host the 16th edition of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2023) as well as the 7th edition of the Naval Defence Exhibition and Conference (NAVDEX 2023), which will be held between February 20-24, 2023, under the patronage of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The events will be organized by the ADNEC Group at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, in association with the Ministry of Defence. They will showcase a broad range of brand-new features and attract leading participants and exhibitors. This year’s IDEX marks the 30th edition of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said the SCO and G20 presidency by India will build multi-dimensional cooperation among the two countries and strengthen stability and security throughout the world. While India assumed the G20 Presidency on December 1, it also assumed the rotating presidency of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) on September 16. Russia and India are celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relations in 2022, according to Putin’s New Year message to Indian President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kremlin officials said that they continue to develop their specially privileged strategic partnership based on a tradition of…

Microsoft has announced that its Excel autocomplete is getting smarter, at least in the web version of Microsoft 365. Last week, the company unveiled formula suggestions and formulas by example, according to The Verge. The two features could help automate various tasks that were previously manual. In Excel for Web, when you enter an equal sign in a cell, it will try to suggest a formula based on the data surrounding it. If you have a column named “total” at the end of your spreadsheet and a row full of quarterly sales data, Excel can suggest adding a range of…

More than 11,000 species have been discovered in Vietnam, which ranks 16th among the 25 countries with the richest biodiversity, according to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA). The species include 6,000 benthic, 2,038 fish, 225 shrimp, 15 sea snakes, 12 marine mammals, five turtles, 43 water birds, 653 seaweed, 657 zooplankton, 94 mangrove plants, 14 seagrasses, and about 400 400 coral species. There are more than 20 types of typical ecosystems in which these species can be found. They are highly productive biologically and influence the overall productivity of the entire ocean. A major effort has been made by the…

A number of explosions occurred across Balochistan on Sunday, resulting in the death of at least five Pakistani soldiers and the injury of a dozen civilians. According to a statement issued by the Pakistan Army, during an intelligence-based clearance operation, which has been underway since December 24, an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in the Kahan area of Kohlu district, near a “leading party”. It was also reported that, in a separate incident, unidentified men threw a grenade at a police checkpoint in Quetta’s Satellite Town. This injured eight people, including three police officers and five civilians, according to the…

Guinness World Records (GWR) confirms that Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh is the world’s shortest man with a height of 65.24 centimetres and a weight of just 6 kilograms. Afshin received the certificate from GWR officials at the Radisson Blu hotel in Media City. It makes me happy and privileged to hold this esteemed honour. It is magical. In the morning, you wake up and you are famous everywhere.” Edward Nino Hernandez, from Bogota in Colombia, was the previous shortest man, measuring 72.1 cm tall on 29 February 2020. Having been raised in a remote village in the West Azerbaijan province of…

There is more to the world’s largest whales than just their stunning appearances. Similarly to oceans, soils, and forests, whales could help humanity deal with the accelerating climate crisis by sequestering and storing planet-warming carbon emissions. Researchers suggest that whales are significant carbon sinks, but are often overlooked, in a paper published Thursday in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Their enormous size, which can reach 150 tons, allows them to store carbon more effectively than smaller animals. Due to whales’ long life expectancies, some whales live for more than a century. The paper suggests that whales are one…