1300 BC: Miners worked a copper vein in Spain with hundreds of stone hammers; more than 3,000 years later, researchers found chemical matches in 11 Scandinavian bronze objects, hinting at a far-reaching trade network

Representative Image (AI-generated) A mine in south-western Spain is offering new clues about how copper travelled across Bronze Age Europe, potentially linking miners in the Iberian Peninsula with communities in Scandinavia thousands of kilometres away. Around 1300 BC, people were extracting copper ore at Las Minillas, using stone tools to work deposits deep underground. Centuries…

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‘Already been uprooted’: Akhilesh, Awadhesh target Amit Shah over ‘Angad’s foot’ remark | India News

NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday dismissed Union home minister Amit Shah‘s claim that the BJP was firmly entrenched in Uttar Pradesh, questioning him over crimes against women and Dalits in the state. Party MP Awadhesh Prasad also hit back at Shah’s “Angad’s foot” remark, saying the BJP’s political footing had “already…

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Connecticut volunteers are attaching eelgrass seeds to living clams to restore meadows that have shrunk by 90%; after an early 178% rise in coverage, the team is testing rice-paper planting with 300,000 seeds

Eelgrass Meadows (Representative image) In the shallow waters of Long Island Sound, Connecticut volunteers are using an unlikely pair of helpers to bring back an underwater forest: live clams and eelgrass seeds. Researchers and community members are gluing seeds to clam shells, then releasing the clams at carefully chosen sites where they burrow into the…

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Inspired by his uncle’s struggle with speech, a teenage schoolboy develops a tool to help people join conversations

Inspired by uncle’s speech difficulties, Jack Harker, teenager develops award-winning Parley communication tool. (Photo: samsung.com) A communication challenge faced by a family member became the starting point for an award-winning technology project by a New Zealand schoolboy. Jack Harker, a Year 11 student at ACG Parnell College in Auckland, developed Parley, a communication tool designed…

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A two-bedroom home in Quebec was built with panels using plastic equivalent to about 200,000 discarded bottles; builders assembled its 1,078 sq ft structural shell in just three days using prefabricated parts

A two-bedroom home covering 1,078 sq ft in Saint-Rémi-d’Amherst, Quebec, has been built using structural panels made from the equivalent of about 200,000 recycled plastic bottles. The building shell was fully put together on-site in just three days. The project could offer a new way to build more affordable and sustainable homes across Canada. The…

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No more unknown calls! Govt mandates displaying names – here’s what changes from November 1

Caller ID mandatory from November 1 Unknown callers bothering you? That is set to change from tomorrow!Telecom operators are set to begin rolling out Calling Name Presentation (CNAP), a facility that will display the caller’s name on the recipient’s phone screen. The service will not require users to register separately and will change how incoming…

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