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In August 2023, downed power lines on Maui, Hawaii, sparked a wildfire that quickly exploded into multiple, fast-moving blazes fanned by high winds. Over several days, the fires reduced much of the town of Lāhainā to ashes, displacing thousands and killing more than 100 people. New research published Thursday, August 22, in the journal Frontiers in Climate suggests this disaster …

A will that has been lost for more than 150 years and was at the centre of a bitter legal battle by William Shakespeare’s family over who owned the playwright’s final home has been unearthed in an unlabelled box at the National Archives. The original 1642 document was made by Thomas Nash, who was married to Shakespeare’s granddaughter Elizabeth Hall. …

New analysis of ancient household burners from Qurayyah in northwest Saudi Arabia points to smoke from Peganum harmala seeds being inhaled in daily life nearly 2,700 years ago. The work opens a window onto how Iron Age communities used scent, smoke, and bioactive plants to manage health and mood without leaving written manuals. The evidence comes from residues …

They say good things come to those who wait. But for Eberechi Eze, it has taken 14 years for his dream to come true. The England forward made a dramatic entrance during Crystal Palace’s open training session on Wednesday before their Conference League playoff when he was last to emerge from the changing room with frenzied anticipation that his expected …

Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old  Archaeology News Online Magazine Mystery Greek hominin skull dated to be at least 286,000 years old  Phys.org Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age  Popular Science 300,000-Year-Old Skull Shows Neanderthals Lived Alongside Another Ancient Human Ancestor  IFLScience Archaeology breakthrough as mystery of 286,000-year-old skull finally ‘solved’  Daily Express Source …

Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in question are Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs), recently discovered outbursts of X-rays that last for just a few minutes. The source of FXTs has been shrouded in mystery. Now, with the …

Bungie CEO Pete Parsons is leaving after 23 years. Fellow veteran Justin Truman will take over as the storied Halo studio struggles with flagging interest in Destiny 2, the delayed launch of Marathon, and a painful Sony integration following a sky-high $3.6 billion acquisition back in 2022. “After more than two decades of helping build this incredible studio, establishing the …

The SEC will move to a nine-game conference schedule in 2026, it said Thursday, ending years of debate about whether it should add another conference game. The decision came after the conference’s athletic directors met this week in Birmingham, Ala. Each school will play three annual opponents “focused on maintaining many traditional rivalries,” the conference said, and six rotating games …

Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn and Debbe Dunning will all appear on Tim Allen’s ABC sitcom Shifting Gears. It’s Tool Time all over again. On Wednesday, Tim Allen’s sitcom Shifting Gears shared a video from the set of Season 2, teasing a long-awaited Home Improvement reunion with Allen’s former costars Patricia Richardson, Richard Karn and Debbe Dunning. Richardson previously played Jill …

Landing a job at PwC straight out of college just got tougher. The Big Four firm told Business Insider it was “decreasing our campus hiring goals,” after we obtained part of an internal presentation saying it plans to cut entry-level hiring in the US by almost a third over the next three years. The company did not comment on specific …