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Tourists spend time at Kuta beach in Bali, Indonesia, 02 September 2025. The Indonesia Central Agency of Statistics recorded nearly 1.48 million foreign tourist arrivals in July 2025.
Instagram vs reality: Bali is becoming a victim of its own success
BALI, Indonesia — Bali, Indonesia's famed tropical paradise, has charmed plenty of tourists over the years.But it's also leaving a growing number disillusioned - recently among them Zoe Rae."Since landing in Bali, something for us has just not felt quite right," she said in a YouTube video in July, filmed in her hotel room."We came to Bali with high expectations because we'd seen on social media everyone having such a lovely time."She added: "If you took a picture of the coffee shop and zoomed out, you would see what the reality was."Ms Rae did not describe the reality she saw - nor reply to the BBC's questions. But it was unsettling enough to make her book an impromptu flight to Dubai to continue celebrating her wedding anniversary there instead.One does not need to...
November 17, 2025

Instagram vs reality: Bali is becoming a victim of its own success

Foreign tourists pack Kiyomizuzaka, a famed road near Kyoto's Kiyomizu Temple on October 15
Badly-behaved tourists create problems in Asia’s travel hot spots
KYOTO — Historic towns elbow-to-elbow with travelers. Beaches where you can’t see the sand through the multitude of towels, chairs and umbrellas. Tourists arrested for drunk and disorderly conduct.That may sound like your average summer journey to any one of the many European destinations plagued by overtourism in recent years, from Barcelona to Venice, where fed-up locals have taken to the streets to protest the negative impact of too many visitors.But it’s happening in parts of Asia, too. Across the region, several renowned destinations are reaching a tourism glass ceiling that’s impacting the quality of life for residents while destroying the iconic spots that draw people in the first place.“Bali is definitely one,” says Gary Bowerman, a travel and consumer trends analyst...
November 03, 2025

Badly-behaved tourists create problems in Asia’s travel hot spots

NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered leopard spots on a reddish rock nicknamed Cheyava Falls in Mars’ Jezero Crater in July 2024
Rock discovery contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says
WASHINGTON — Scientists believe intriguing leopard spots on a rock sampled by the Perseverance rover on Mars last year may have potentially been made by ancient life, NASA announced Wednesday. The team has also published a peer-reviewed paper in the journal Nature about the new analysis, though they say further study is needed.“After a year of review, they have come back and they said, listen, we can’t find another explanation,” said Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy. “So this very well could be the clearest sign of life that we’ve ever found on Mars, which is incredibly exciting.”The sample, called Sapphire Canyon, was collected by the Perseverance rover from rocky outcrops on the edges of the Neretva Vallis river valley, a region sculpted by water that once flowed into...
September 11, 2025

Rock discovery contains ‘clearest sign’ yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says

Warm water and the coming southern spring mean the iceberg is likely to break down into smaller sections rapidly, experts say
World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up
LONDON — The world’s largest iceberg is “rapidly breaking up” into several large “very large chunks,” scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have said.Previously weighing nearly a trillion metric tonnes (1.1 trillion tons) and spanning an area of 3,672 square kilometers (1,418 square miles) — slightly bigger than Rhode Island — the A23a iceberg has been closely tracked by scientists ever since it calved from the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in Antarctica in 1986.A23a has held the “largest current iceberg” title several times since the 1980s, occasionally being surpassed by larger but shorter-lived icebergs, including A68 in 2017 and A76 in 2021.Andrew Meijers, an oceanographer at BAS, told CNN in an email Wednesday: “The iceberg is rapidly breaking up, and...
September 04, 2025

World’s biggest iceberg, A23a, has broken up

The remains of a crocodile-like species were first spotted by some villagers last week
Researchers find rare Jurassic-era fossil in Indian village
DELHI — Researchers in India have discovered the fossilised remains of a rare crocodile-like species from the Jurassic era in the western state of Rajasthan.The fossil, known as a phytosaur, measures between 1.5 to two metres and is likely to be more than 200 million years old, researchers say.It was unearthed at Megha village in Jaisalmer district by senior hydrogeologist Dr Narayandas Inkhiya and his team, who work for the state's water department.Mr Inkhiya told the BBC that the site could hold "many more hidden fossils" that could provide vital and fascinating clues on the history of evolution."It also opens up the area as an important spot for fossil tourism," he added.The phytosaur was a semi-aquatic animal, one that lived in the river and also on land, said...
August 26, 2025

Researchers find rare Jurassic-era fossil in Indian village

A 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint has been discovered on a 'soul house' at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
4,000-year-old handprint found on ancient Egyptian tomb
CAMBRIDGE — A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model used for offerings in an Ancient Egyptian tomb.Researchers from Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the United Kingdom, stumbled upon the imprint while preparing for an exhibition, which is set to open this fall.It was found on the base of a “soul house,” a building-shaped clay model typically found in burials and said to have provided a place for the soul to live, according to a press release from the museum.The model has an open space at the front where food offerings, like bread, lettuce or an ox’s head, could be placed.The handprint is likely to have been from the potter who made the soul house.It showed that the unnamed potter would have first created a framework of wooden sticks for the...
July 30, 2025

4,000-year-old handprint found on ancient Egyptian tomb

The spin rate of Earth is affected by many factors, but the moon and the tides have traditionally played a major role
Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move
WASHIGTON — Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers.July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 milliseconds less than 24 hours, according to data from the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service and the US Naval Observatory, compiled by timeanddate.com. More exceptionally short days are coming on July 22 and August 5, currently predicted to be 1.34 and 1.25 milliseconds shorter than 24 hours, respectively.The length of a day is the time it takes for the planet to complete one full rotation on its axis —24 hours or 86,400 seconds on average. But in reality, each rotation is slightly irregular due to a variety of factors, such as the gravitational pull of the...
July 22, 2025

Earth is spinning faster, leading timekeepers to consider an unprecedented move

Ryan Paterson, right, and Enrico Cappellini, left, led the analysis on the rhino tooth fossil
Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil
LONDON — Scientists have recovered ancient proteins from a fossilized rhinoceros tooth, breaking new ground in the study of ancient life on Earth.The 24-million-year-old tooth, which was unearthed in the Canadian Arctic, contains proteins that are 10 times older than the most ancient known DNA. Using the sample, scientists have now analyzed the oldest detailed protein sequence on record.“Enamel is so hard it protects these proteins over deep time (long time scales),” said Ryan Sinclair Paterson, a postdoctoral researcher at the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark who led the Canadian research. “It’s essentially like a vault. What we did was unlock this vault, at least for this specific fossil.”The study of ancient DNA preserved in bones, fossils and dirt...
July 16, 2025

Scientists recover proteins from a 24 million-year-old rhino fossil

Moths layed eggs on plants based on the sounds they made, which indicated their health
Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists
TEL AVIV — Animals react to sounds being made by plants, new research suggests, opening up the possibility that an invisible ecosystem might exist between them.In the first ever such evidence, a team at Tel Aviv University found that female moths avoided laying their eggs on tomato plants if they made noises they associated with distress, indicating that they may be unhealthy.The team was the first to show two years ago that plants scream when they are distressed or unhealthy.The sounds are outside the range of human hearing, but can be perceived by many insects, bats and some mammals."This is the first demonstration ever of an animal responding to sounds produced by a plant," said Prof Yossi Yovel of Tel Aviv University."This is speculation at this stage, but it could be...
July 15, 2025

Animals react to secret sounds from plants, say scientists

The Virtual Telescope Project captured an image of the object on Wednesday
Astronomers spot an interstellar object zipping through our solar system
PASADENA, California — A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial body from beyond our solar system ever to be observed in our corner of the universe.This interstellar visitor, now officially named 3I/ATLAS, became known when the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Chile reported spotting it on Tuesday. Since then, astronomers reviewing archival observations from multiple telescopes have tracked the object’s movements as far back as June 14 and found that the comet arrived from the direction of the Sagittarius constellation.The comet’s speed and path through the solar system are two...
July 04, 2025

Astronomers spot an interstellar object zipping through our solar system

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