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After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, scientists explored an unusual way of dealing with radioactive contamination by using plants to absorb radionuclides from the environment. Sunflowers emerged as a promising candidate because their roots can take up certain radioactive elements, including cesium and strontium, from contaminated water. Experiments near Chernobyl showed that sunflowers could remove…

Isabella GarryPhoto: Society for Science When Isabella Garry learned that microplastics can enter the human body through food, water and the air, she began looking for a solution that went beyond simply avoiding plastic. The seventh-grader from Central Middle School in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, tested natural plant compounds in a laboratory-made stomach environment to see…

A six-month trial of live facial recognition at London railway stations cost British Transport Police (BTP) £320,786 and scanned more than 500,000 faces, but it produced just one alert from the police watchlist. That alert turned out to be a false identification, with no arrest resulting directly from the technology during the trial period. The…

Israeli passenger who controlled the plane in conversation with PM Benjamin Netanyahu An Israeli passenger, who took control of an Israel-bound flydubai passenger jet after its pilot was stabbed and wounded by the co-pilot during an apparent hijacking attempt told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he knew how to control the aircraft because, “I watch…

Hasina made the remarks while addressing online a seminar titled “Safeguarding Democracy in Bangladesh: Rights, Freedoms and the Rule of Law” at Godfrey Mitchell Room of One Great George Street in London. TOI Correspondent from Dhaka: Expressing concern over what she described as a renewed threat from militancy and violent extremism, former prime minister and…

The agency is preparing to send formal demands for information to the companies as part of a probe into whether firms are abiding by consumer protection laws. Federal Trade Commission is scrutinising OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies about the safety of their products amid high-profile cybersecurity incidents, said a person familiar with the…

Before dying from stage four ovarian cancer at age 38, New York mother Casey McIntyre arranged a final message that turned her personal loss into financial relief for tens of thousands of strangers across the United States. By December 2024, the viral memorial campaign created in her honor had raised millions of dollars. The money…

Sharon Jacks, an Army veteran in Ohio, is now a double amputee as her left leg was wrongly amputated because of the negligence of the doctors. A 74-year-old Ohio woman, an Army veteran, has both legs amputated below the knee as a wrong operation removed the wrong leg, and then, to correct that, she had…

File photo: Flydubai flight passenger Tzvika Manes An Israeli passenger who helped restrain the flydubai co-pilot accused of trying to take control of the aircraft and crash it has recounted how he and two other passengers intervened as the plane began to nosedive.Tzika Manes told Israel’s Channel 12, as reported by The Times of Israel,…

A police officer stands guard at a road closure outside the perimeter of the RAF Fairford airbase, in Gloucestershire, Britain (Picture credit: Reuters) British Prime Minister Andy Burnham on Wednesday said there were “strong indications” that Iran played a part in a suspicious incident near RAF Fairford in southwest England, where five men were arrested…