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A six-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine allowed humanitarian aid into Russian-occupied Oleshky and hundreds of residents to be evacuated, Times Now reported. The pause has expired, but it delivered concrete civilian relief without waiting for a wider peace agreement.
Source: timesnownews.com
Read the original story →Researchers have spun a levitating magnet about the width of a fine human hair at 138 million revolutions per minute, achieving the fastest magnetically levitated rotor reported. They have also successfully tested it as a vacuum gauge at very low temperatures, turning an extraordinary feat of control into a working scientific instrument.
Source: New Scientist
Read the original story →A family of six beavers was released at Dundreggan in Scotland on November 4, returning the species to the Loch Ness catchment 500 years after it was last recorded there. The release restores a missing native animal to its former home, with potential benefits for freshwater habitats still to be monitored.
Source: Rewilding Europe
Read the original story →Chemical evidence from two 237-million-year-old fossils reveals an amphibian adapted to long-term ocean life—a lifestyle absent among today’s more than 8,000 amphibian species. The armored Gerrothorax maritimus expands our understanding of where amphibians could live, showing that living animals do not tell the whole story of life’s possibilities.
Source: Science News
Read the original story →Pedro Moro spent 12 days tracing the owner of cash he found in a public plaza in Ibiraçu, Brazil, before returning a construction worker's entire monthly salary. The worker, 24-year-old Matheus Reginaldo Celestino, had withdrawn the money for his daughter's needs and had given up on recovering it.
Source: Good News Network
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