Social Security 2027 changes: COLA may rise 3.5%, but will full retirement age change?
Social Security is set for some changes in 2027, but the final numbers are not out yet. The official changes, including the 2027 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), are expected to be announced on October 14, after the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI)…
‘Committing massacres’: Houthis accuse Saudi of Yemen prison strike that killed 7, including child
Visuals from the aftermath of the attack (Image Source: X@YemenNetworkRF) Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday accused Saudi Arabia of carrying out an air strike on a prison in the northern city of al-Hazm, killing at least seven people, including a child.The…
PLA report warns Chinese cities of potential nuclear attacks, flags Japan as ‘threat’
A new study by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force has warned Chinese cities to prepare for potential nuclear attacks, singling out Japan as a “major danger signal” to the world.According to the report, the likelihood of a large-scale…
‘Strike our assets & you get struck’: Iran threatens US energy assets in Gulf after latest clashes
Iran threatens US oil, gas assets. Iran has threatened to retaliate against any new US attacks on its assets, warning that American oil and gas interests and energy infrastructure across the Gulf could be targeted as tensions escalate over the Strait of…
Iran doubles petrol price for heavy users as currency touches record low
Iran doubles petrol prices Iran has doubled the price of petrol for consumers who exceed their monthly quota, putting a higher cost on heavy fuel use as households already grapple with falling purchasing power and soaring inflation.The revised rate came…
All known life uses 4 DNA letters; UC San Diego showed an existing bacterial enzyme can accurately read and transcribe 8, doubling the genetic alphabet with synthetic letters
Representative image of DNA All life on Earth, from bacteria to blue whales, writes its genetic instructions using the same four-letter alphabet. These four DNA bases, usually referred to as A, T, C and G, pair up in predictable ways to store and pass on…
In 1895, lightning ignited a massive West Virginia gas well, sending flames 200 feet into the sky as crowds gathered to witness one of America’s most extraordinary fires
Lightning ignited a massive West Virginia gas well, sending flames 200 feet into the sky (Image Credit: West Virginia Explorer) In 1895, a lightning strike turned an already uncontrollable natural gas well in West Virginia into a spectacular column of…
Yemen conflict widens: Houthis claim strikes on Saudi airport, air base and Aramco sites
Drones and ballistic missiles at King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait and Abha International Airport in southern Saudi Arabia. (GIF: @theinformant_x) Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said on September 8 that they had launched missiles and drones at Abha…
‘Russia ready to negotiate’: Zelenskyy after meeting US envoys Witkoff and Kushner
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday (local time) said US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff told him that Russia is “ready to negotiate” when they met him in Kyiv after meeting Russian…
Meet Suborno Isaac Bari: The maths prodigy who caught Barack Obama’s attention, skipped five grades and graduated high school at 12
At 2 years old, Suborno Isaac Bari was already doing something that would later become a defining detail of his childhood: reciting the periodic table. Mathematics was developing alongside that early fascination with science, and his parents soon…
