Credit: Ajay Suresh / CC BY 2.0.A growing movement across the United States is reshaping daily life inside classrooms, limiting or outright banning student cellphone use during the school day. The latest and closely watched case is Pennsylvania, where a bill that would restrict cellphone use in educ
Italian cuisine was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, becoming the first country to receive this distinction in its entirety. Credit: Fs999, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / FlickrItalian cuisine has officially been declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, a historic
The Game Awards logo (2020 version) for Game Awards 2025 winners coverage. Logo: The Game Awards (public domain text-logo) via Wikimedia Commons.The Game Awards 2025 was not just a trophy handout, it was gaming’s yearly group chat made real. One stage, a lot of hype, and millions of viewers waiting
The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Malba) said it has acquired the Daros Latinamerica collection from Zürich. Credit: Tamara Kenia – CC BY 2.0 via Flickr. The Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Malba) said it has acquired the Daros Latinamerica collection from Zürich, addin
A JetBlue commercial aircraft reported that it nearly collided with a U.S. military aircraft in Curaçao, near Venezuela. Credit: Fletcher, CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia. (File photo).The U.S. airline JetBlue reported that last Friday an aircraft operating the route from Curaçao to New York nearly collided w
Far-right candidate Jose Antonio Kast defeats leftist Jara in the second round of elections and will be Chile’s next president. Credit: Oscar Maltez, CC BY 2.0 / Flickr / Kast Team, CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia.In the runoff of the presidential election, far-right candidate José Antonio Kast prevailed by a
Chile decides on President Boric’s successor in an election marked by strong polarization between the far-right Kast and the communist Jara. Credit: Government of Chile, CC BY 3.0 Cl / Wikimedia.Chile heads into a presidential runoff being held today, Sunday, marked by political tension that runs th
Hong Kong’s night skyline from Victoria Peak, part of the Shenzhen–Hong Kong–Guangzhou innovation cluster that leads WIPO’s 2025 global ranking of science and technology hubs. Credit: Base64 (retouched by CarolSpears), 2008 / CC BY SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Some places felt like they were testin
Dead Sea Scroll 28a from Qumran Cave 1, the Jordan Museum in Amman. Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP (Glasg) / CC BY-SA 4.0After years of mystery, a scholar now claims to have made a breakthrough in understanding a long-unreadable script hidden in the Dead Sea Scrolls.Emmanuel Oliveiro, a res
Food products. Credit: Fan of Retail / Flickr / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Many Americans trust that the foods they buy are exactly what they claim to be. However, recent findings from consumer protection agencies and food safety investigators reveal that counterfeit foods are a growing issue in the United Stat
A new smartphone app, ALMA, is designed to give immigrant families a fast, coordinated response when ICE agents arrive at their door. Credit: usicegov – Public Domain via Flickr.A new smartphone app, ALMA, designed to give immigrant families a fast, coordinated response when ICE agents arrive at the
Windmill Way, Square A4 after excavation. Credit: Heather Burke / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0In northern Queensland, Australia, archaeologists have uncovered rare evidence of Aboriginal string craft that dates back nearly 1,700 years. The discovery, made deep within the remote rock shelters of Quinkan Country,
Trump’s new ICE fleet sparks fears of mass deportations and civil rights abuses. Credit: ICE / Public DomainThe United States government has quietly taken one of the largest logistical steps in years to expand its immigration enforcement capacity. This expansion reflects the policies of the Trump ad
Visualization of the Roman building complex. Credit: Department of Education, Culture and Sport / Canton of Aargau, SwitzerlandA major archaeological find near the Limmat River in Gebenstorf, Switzerland, is offering fresh insight into the lost Roman complex in the region. What was once believed to
Colombia’s Petro proposed a general amnesty, accepted by the U.S., in a possible scenario of political transition in Venezuela after Maduro. Credit: Juan Diego Cano / Presidency of Colombia.The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, again intervened in the Venezuelan crisis, putting forward the propo
United States President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally unveiled a new, paid immigration pathway dubbed the “Trump Gold Card.” Credit: The White House – Public DomainPresident Donald Trump on Wednesday formally unveiled a new, paid immigration pathway dubbed the “Trump Gold Card,” a White House p
U.S. plans to screen five years of travelers’ social-media history sparks global alarm over privacy and discrimination. Credit: The White House / Public DomainThe United States is once again tightening the conditions for entering the country, adding a new chapter to a growing list of measures that c
Spiral galaxy NGC 2683 seen almost edge on by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, a reminder that tiny molecules and vast star systems are part of the same cosmic story that Colombian scientists are helping to decode. Photo: NASA, 2012 / Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.Some cosmic stories start in
The city of Rovaniemi in Finland is considered the hometown of Santa Claus, and in this place, the magic of Christmas is experienced all year round. Credit: frozenreindeer, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 / FlickrIn the far north of Finland, right at the gateway to the Arctic, lies Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland
Seasonal short-leaved plants with two leaves, a tall stalk, and a flower. Credit: Yosef Garfinkel / CC BY 4.0Ancient pottery decorated with flower patterns from northern Mesopotamia may hold more than artistic value. A recent archaeological study has found that humanity’s oldest floral art, dating b
The United States on Wednesday seized a large oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump and U.S. officials said, marking a sharp escalation in Washington’s campaign of pressure on President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Credit: Roel Hemkes – CC-BY-2.0 via Wikimedia Commons.The Uni
Colombia’s tourism surge accelerates as new international routes boost arrivals and strengthen regional economies. Credit: Victor Cohen / Colombia One Colombia’s international tourism sector is experiencing one of its strongest periods in recent years, driven by a combination of expanding air connec
Futuristic artwork of quantum circuits and entangled particles, representing the International Quantum Year 2025 and the global race to develop quantum technologies that will also shape Latin America’s scientific and economic future. Credit: AI generated with Microsoft Copilot by JhoanBaron, CO1, 20
Remains of zhi dao road, built by Qin people, in Shaanxi Province. Credit: The Government Website of Shaanxi ProvinceAn ancient road built more than two millennia ago has been unearthed in China’s Shaanxi Province, offering fresh insight into early Chinese infrastructure. The discovery includes an 8
