World Maryland: Two people bitten by beavers in less than two weeks at Maryland park force partial closure after both animals test positive for rabies | World News August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com At Cunningham Falls State Park, two people experienced beaver bites that resulted in positive rabies tests for both animals involved. Consequently, park authorities have restricted access to water areas to…
World US mosquito numbers have crashed during a historic drought, but scientists say fewer mosquitoes can still mean a higher risk of West Nile virus | World News August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Representative Image of dry environmental conditions affecting mosquito numbers and public health (AI-generated image) Mosquitoes have all but vanished from parts of the United States this summer, and residents in…
World Mercury is still shrinking after billions of years: How its giant cooling core is cracking the planet’s thin crust | August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, only slightly larger than Earth’s Moon, but what lies beneath its battered surface is anything but small. Its metallic core stretches…
World Boston: In the 1990s, Boston sent nearly a quarter of the Big Dig’s 16 million cubic yards of soil to a burning former dump island and helped turn it into a park August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Areas once linked to the old city dump were transformed with trees, shrubs and grasses. (Boston preservationa alliance photo) When Boston began work on the Central Artery/Tunnel Project, better known…
World A half-mile solar strip floats above an irrigation canal in Gujarat, generating 1.6 million kilowatt-hours of power while saving 2.38 million gallons of water from evaporation August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com When it comes to solar panels, they are usually spread across rooftops or open fields where they serve more purposes than just providing energy. But near Chandrasan village in the…
World Scientists trained honeybees to recognise human faces, showing how tiny brains can distinguish faces by the arrangement of their features | August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Honeybees can be trained with nothing more than the promise of a sugary reward; they learn to pick out a specific face and keep picking it out later, even when…
World Quote of the day by Melinda French Gates: “When something’s uncomfortable, it means you’re actually…” – a lesson on stepping outside your comfort zone | World News August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Quote of the day by Melinda French Gates Growth rarely feels comfortable while it is actually happening. Learning something new, taking on more responsibility, or simply stepping into an unfamiliar…
World Meet Japan’s ‘women of the sea’: 80-year-old diver dives into cold waters without an oxygen tank to harvest seafood using a centuries-old tradition | World News August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com For generations, women along Japan’s Ise-Shima coastline have entered the sea without scuba equipment or oxygen tanks to gather seafood from the seabed. Known as Ama, or ‘women of the…
World In 2013, honeybees were trained to find land mines left behind by the Balkan wars, turning their extraordinary sense of smell into an unlikely detection tool | August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com Croatia was still dealing with the hidden legacy of the Balkan wars when scientists began looking to an unlikely ally: honeybees. Years after mines had been buried across fields, forests…
World Scientists discovered that animal poop travelled across oceans 540-million-years ago and triggered the evolution of life on earth | August 10, 2026 contact.newslyindia@gmail.com A large coprolite of a carnivorous dinosaur found in Harding County, South Dakota, US. Image Credit: Poozeum/Wikipedia Around 540 million years ago, the biological landscape of Earth went through a…
