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Children born in prison have never even seen a train, rickshaws, roads, cows, buffaloes or pet animals. The very concept of pets is alien to them, for they have only seen the cats that roam the prison ...

The community will celebrate Kojagiri Pournima on October 4 with music, food, and family fun. The free event starts at 5.30 pm and features Antakshari, Bhondla for kids, food stalls, and a festive ...

Halloween brings out the creative spirit in all of us, and nothing sets the perfect eerie mood like the flickering glow of candlelight. I’ve gathered some of my favorite DIY candlelight projects that ...

Oregon’s countryside and cities are home to some amazing cafés that serve up the freshest farm-to-table goodness. These special spots don’t just fill your belly with delicious food they bring ...

The south pole of Enceladus—a tiny moon orbiting Saturn—is a volatile place. In this region, the moon’s subsurface ocean spews jets of water through four “tiger stripe” cracks in the icy crust, ...

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior. Lunar samples reveal the far side of the moon, hidden from Earth's view, may ...

For the first time, the chemical composition of a moon-forming disk around a planet has been revealed. The James Webb Space Telescope has, for the first time, measured the carbon-rich concoction that ...

New research suggests that the interior of the Moon’s far side may be colder than the side constantly facing Earth, adding another layer of strangeness to this mysterious lunar region.

Originally published as Gabi was told she'd never fall pregnant naturally. Then she found the moon.

Did someone say it’s October? What the heck? Haying is officially done. Benny the swather and I about ended the season fired. I had one more pass to make on a wet meadow and had one of my big tires ...

IT’S BEEN a milestone year for the musical about the $10 founding father without a father. Hamilton, the hit show based on US founding father Alexander Hamilton, turned 10 this summer — marking a ...