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Archaeologists have identified a massive Neolithic enclosure at Chleby, in central Czechia, built roughly 6,500 years ago. Its 12 entrances appear to have been arranged to track key positions of the sun and moon, making it about a millennium older than Stonehenge.
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A man from Melbourne’s Sunshine West has been charged over an alleged random assault in the CBD that left a visiting woman and her young son with non-life-threatening injuries. Police say they do not believe the man knew the pair.
An M6.9 solar flare erupted from an Earth-facing sunspot on Aug. 25, sending a coronal mass ejection toward space. Models suggest a possible glancing encounter with Earth on Aug. 28, while a separate solar-wind stream could influence aurora chances.
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Sammy, a southern elephant seal that regularly visits Portland’s foreshore, port and community gardens, has recently been seen near birds presumed to have died from H5N1. Concern has intensified after a fur seal near Beachport became the first confirmed seal case in the region.
Typhoon Narra has submerged homes and driven tens of thousands of people from their homes in southern China. In Chongzuo, Guangxi, flooding surpassed a record set in 2008, with water reportedly reaching rooftops and power lines in parts of the city.
Acoustic and movement-monitoring equipment near Cornwall accidentally recorded two harbor porpoises during a bycatch event. The data captured one animal’s efforts to escape and distinct calls exchanged between the pair.
Lawyers for Donald Trump’s administration told a federal court that the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, may eventually need to be demolished unless it receives a proposed $250 million renovation. The warning surfaced during a separate legal dispute over Trump’s effort to add his name to the arts complex.
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Eight yellow-bellied marmots are competing in Colorado’s inaugural Fat Marmot Week, an online event inspired by Alaska’s Fat Bear Week. The celebration also aims to draw attention to sharp population losses linked to a winter with record-low snowpack.
YouTuber soiboi soft built a display that replaces conventional LEDs with pneumatic cavities and stretchy silicone. A vacuum in each cavity pulls an orange rubber panel inward, creating individual pixels across the 64-cell grid.
New observations of the red supergiant Betelgeuse show a rippled surface, unusually hot regions and a hotspot that remained visible for at least seven years. The findings offer astronomers a closer look at a star expected to eventually end its life in a supernova, though such an explosion is not considered immediately imminent.
A home security camera in Tarzana recorded a coyote repeatedly approaching a bear near a driveway, apparently keeping it away from a smaller coyote nearby. The bear eventually retreated to another yard, and the homeowner said the encounter never became violent.
Agim Agushi of Kosovo put on 17 T-shirts without stopping a soccer ball from bouncing off his head, according to UPI Odd News and Guinness World Records. The attempt surpassed his previous record of 14 shirts.
Newly disclosed court records describe federal agents posing as community members, joining Signal chats, attending protest meetings and photographing demonstrations in Minnesota. The surveillance formed part of an investigation into 15 protesters charged with conspiring to impede ICE operations.
Security footage shared by the Colorado Springs Fire Department shows a bear entering Station 16, taking a bag of firefighting gear and quickly departing. The department said it was unclear whether firefighters recovered the bag.
Judi Oyama has extended her Guinness World Records title as the oldest female competitive skateboarder. She competed at age 66 at the 2025 International Slalom Skateboarding World Championships in Brazil, after first setting the record at 64.
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