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Only a year ago the little gray and yellow house on 35th Place was nestled among similar early 20th century homes interspersed with a few postwar apartments.Today it is flanked on one side by two four-story buildings and on the other by three buildings under construction. Scenes like that are playing out on almost every block in the neighborhood west of the USC campus. A building boom is transforming a historic Black and Latino neighborhood into a village of modern student housing, unchecked by planning constraints that…

Commercial services of the country’s first underwater metro train commenced in Kolkata on Friday with hundreds of passengers erupting into jubilation on their first ride.A train began its journey from the Howrah Maidan station on the East-West metro corridor of Kolkata at 7 am with loud cheers and claps from commuters, while another started cruising from Esplanade station at the same time.Hundreds of commuters thronged the stations in the early morning to be part of the “first-day first underwater metro” bandwagon. At the…

Credit: Phillip Capper via Wikimedia commons A thermometer dipped in a bucket of sea water on New Year's Day in 1967 began a unique record that shows the dramatic intensification of warming in the Hauraki Gulf. Sea-surface readings at the Leigh Marine Laboratory north of Auckland since that time indicate the "unprecedented nature of recent marine…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeHayao Miyazaki, the legendary Japanese filmmaker whose anime classics have enchanted fans around the world for decades, has won his second career Oscar.At 83, Miyazaki won for helming the best animated film, The Boy and the Heron, the long-awaited fantasy from the director of Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service.He is the oldest director ever nominated for the…

When Lily Gladstone was nominated for the lead actress Oscar for “Killers of the Flower Moon,” she sparked a wave of hope inside and outside Hollywood that she would become the first Native American to win the prize, in the Academy Awards’ 96th year.And though she received a robust wave of applause when her name was announced during the presentation of the nominees, her journey ended in disappointment as “Poor Things’” Emma Stone claimed the lead actress honor instead.“It’s not about me — it’s about a team that came…

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready for its big Chandrayaan-4 mission. This mission stands out because ISRO plans to use two rockets to do one job and unlike any previous mission undertaken by Isro, Chandrayaan-4 will aim to bring back lunar rocks and soil (regolith) to Earth . Chandrayaan-4 is set to launch around 2028, and it's all about India trying to be the fourth country to bring back samples from the moon. Isro's Chairman, S Somanath, revealed the mission's primary goal during a recent…

As Lily Gladstone is set to appear at Sunday’s Academy Awards, the first Native American woman nominated for a best actress Oscar, her historic moment could wind up competing for attention with a controversial new development in a case that has made waves in Hollywood and in Native American circles for more than 50 years. A report in a leading Hollywood trade publication seeks to shed new light on the case of Sacheen Littlefeather, the late Bay Area activist who made global headlines at the 1973 Oscars when, dressed in a…

Satellite image of the Great Lakes captured on February 24, 2024, by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite sensor aboard the Suomi NPP satellite.The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack of lake ice.Ice coverage on the Great Lakes typically reaches its annual peak in late February or early March. But at that time in 2024, the lakes were conspicuously free of ice. Owing to warmer winter weather and above-average surface water temperatures, ice cover stood at historic lows.Since…

For more than 45 years, the Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos, crossing the boundary of our solar system to become the first human-made object to venture to interstellar space. Iconic in every regard, Voyager 1 has delivered groundbreaking data on Jupiter and Saturn, and captured the loneliest image of Earth. But perhaps nothing is lonelier than an aging spacecraft that has lost its ability to communicate while traveling billions of miles away from home.Three Astronauts May Be Stranded on the ISS…

Last Updated: March 06, 2024, 17:09 ISTKolkata: Here's How India's First Underwater Metro Will Transform City Commutes? (Representational Image)(Photo: Zee News)PM Modi inaugurates India's first underwater metro in Kolkata, a groundbreaking feat in transportation history, promising relief from traffic congestion.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has officially inaugurated India’s first underwater metro line in Kolkata today, marking a major leap forward in the country’s infrastructure.Kolkata’s New Underwater Metro: All You…