The story comes to us from Canada and stars Nora Keegan, who was just 9 years old when she began to ask herself a very specific question: are air hand dryers bad for children's ears?
The rankings for 2026 have been officially published. Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel platform with more than a billion reviews, has published the 'Travellers' Choice Awards Best of the Best Beaches 2026', the annual selection of the most extraordinary beaches on the planet. The verdict is based on an analysis of the quality and quantity of reviews left by travelers between November 30, 2024, and December 1, 2025: millions of reviews outlining a map of the best the global coastline has to offer.
A 5-year-old boy has died after choking on a bite of food while having dinner with his parents at home in Sestu, Italy, in the city of Cagliari. The tragedy occurred on Sunday evening, February 22, during what should have been an ordinary, quiet family meal.
Over 3,400 years old, the blade is still sharp, its geometric decorations are clearly visible, and in places, the surfaces still shine.
At first, nobody believed in their project. The first year, almost all saplings perished due to drought. But the two friends never gave up.
Nothing like this had ever happened since official weather statistics exist: with 35 days of continuous rain, France recorded the longest continuous period of precipitation since 1959, the year when systematic measurements began. That record has been confirmed by Météo-France: the 2023 record, which stood at 32 days, has been officially tallied.
It's called 'knitting therapy': an informal practice that relies on repetitive movements and focused attention to reduce stress and keep performance anxiety at bay.
A Pokémon card has rewritten the history of the collecting world. The Pikachu Illustrator, rated PSA 10 - the highest possible rating assigned by the Professional Sports Authenticator - was hammered off for $16,492,000 at an auction organized by Goldin (one of the world's most renowned auction houses specializing in pop culture collectibles, from cards to sports memorabilia), setting the record, as set by the Guinness World Records, for the most expensive trading card ever sold at an auction.
An apple a day doesn't just keep the doctor away. In France, it might even help doctors reconstruct cartilage. Indeed, that's the concrete result of a study, published in the Journal of Biological Engineering, which shows that it's possible to obtain human cartilage from decellularized apples.
The uninhabited island of Golem Grad, in Lake Prespa in northern Macedonia, is home to a population of some 1,000 Moorland tortoises. A small natural paradise that, when observed up close, appears to be the scene of a disturbing phenomenon: a dramatic gender imbalance, with about 19 males for every female.