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Florida's first flesh-eating bacteria death of 2026 raises concerns during beach season as warm waters fuel infections |

Florida’s first flesh-eating bacteria death of 2026 raises concerns during beach season as warm waters fuel infections |

Image Credit: CDC/ Janice Haney Carr Florida health authorities have officially confirmed the state’s first fatality of 2026 linked to Vibrio vulnificus, a naturally occurring ‘flesh-eating bacteria’. This specific death involved a resident of Palm Beach County aged between 80-84 years. According to the BEACON(public health program based at Boston University) , these cases are…

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Ramanand Sagar's son says Ranbir Kapoor has a lot of baggage after 'Animal' as he reacts to the criticism around his casting: 'Always cast a fresh face for a character like Ram' |

Ramanand Sagar’s son says Ranbir Kapoor has a lot of baggage after ‘Animal’ as he reacts to the criticism around his casting: ‘Always cast a fresh face for a character like Ram’ |

Over the decades, the ‘Ramayana’ has been adapted multiple times for both television and cinema, but Ramanand Sagar’s late-1980s TV series continues to be regarded as one of the most beloved retellings of the epic. As Nitesh Tiwari prepares to bring the story back to the big screen with ‘Ramayana’, the film has already sparked…

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Houston student Aiden Jo, 14, saw bulky packaging as a design problem; his origami-inspired answer reached a national science final

Houston student Aiden Jo, 14, saw bulky packaging as a design problem; his origami-inspired answer reached a national science final

Innovative Minds: Aiden Jo Bulky, single-use food and drink containers continue to take up large amounts of space in rubbish bins and landfills long after they are thrown away. Fourteen-year-old Houston student Aiden Jo saw this as an engineering challenge and came up with an origami-inspired collapsible container. His invention has earned him a place…

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Only Child Research: “Only children are spoiled and lonely”: What science says about the 4 most common stereotypes related to them

“She’s an only child, so she must be spoiled,” or “He’ll grow up lonely without siblings.” For generations, the image of the “spoiled, selfish and socially awkward” only child has been repeated in parenting conversations. But does science actually support these beliefs?Psychologists have been studying only children , and modern evidence paints a far more…

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One renter, eight apartments and 175 years of creaking floors: Inside Calista Hill’s unusual new home

One renter, eight apartments and 175 years of creaking floors: Inside Calista Hill’s unusual new home

When 24-year-old television producer Calista Hill unlocked the front door to her apartment inside a newly restored 1850 brownstone, she expected weeks of shifting boxes and setting up furniture. Instead, she found herself walking hollow hallways in total silence, the solitary occupant of an eight-unit historic property.Hill detailed her experience of moving into the empty…

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Dipika Chikhlia backs Sai Pallavi amid Sita casting backlash, believes audiences will accept her after 'Ramayana' releases: 'I am sure that once the film is released, everyone will accept it' |

Dipika Chikhlia backs Sai Pallavi amid Sita casting backlash, believes audiences will accept her after ‘Ramayana’ releases: ‘I am sure that once the film is released, everyone will accept it’ |

Dipika Chikhlia backs Sai Pallavi amid Sita casting backlash, believes audiences will accept her after ‘Ramayana’ releases: ‘I am sure that once the film is released, everyone will accept it’ The casting of Sai Pallavi as Sita in Nitesh Tiwari‘s ‘Ramayana’ has sparked widespread debate on social media, with many comparing her to Dipika Chikhlia’s…

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Louis Pasteur: Quote of the day by Louis Pasteur: "Chance favours the prepared mind." - why preparation matters more than luck |

Louis Pasteur: Quote of the day by Louis Pasteur: “Chance favours the prepared mind.” – why preparation matters more than luck |

Louis Pasteur’s famous quote, (AI-generated image) Two scientists can stumble into the same unplanned accident in the lab and walk away from it completely differently. One sees a ruined experiment, discards it, and starts again from scratch. The other recognises, almost instantly, that the accident has revealed something nobody had intentionally set out to find….

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