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The US militarys E-4B Nightwatch, the airborne command centre designed for nuclear war and national catastrophe, was spotted on an unusual multi-city flight, prompting scrutiny. The rare public appearance drew attention to the aircrafts role as the National Airborne Operations Center, its extreme survivability features, and its function within the US nuclear command system during worst-case scenarios.
Cory Lee, a wheelchair user with spinal muscular atrophy, has turned a lifetime of barriers into a mission to travel the world. After being told his disability made travel impossible, he founded Curb Free With Cory Lee, visiting 55 countries across all seven continents while documenting accessibility, challenging assumptions, and reshaping what inclusive travel can look like.
Scientists have recovered trace DNA from Renaissance drawings and letters linked to Leonardo da Vinci, using minimally invasive swabbing. The emerging field of arteomics reveals environmental and human genetic clues that may illuminate authorship and historical context. While some DNA aligns with Tuscan ancestry, researchers stress identity cannot be proven, highlighting both promise and limits of modern scientific inquiry today.
Neil deGrasse Tyson provocatively argues that falling into a black hole would be the most extraordinary way to die, not for comfort, but for insight. As tidal forces tear the body apart in spaghettification, extreme time dilation could allow the falling observer to witness the universes distant future unfold, making death a brutal yet uniquely cosmic experiment.
A Paris court convicted 10 individuals for cyberbullying related to false claims about France's first lady, Brigitte Macron. Sentences ranged from awareness courses to jail time for spreading coordinated online content alleging she was born male. The ruling focused on the method and impact of dissemination, not political commentary.