Category: World News

2021 Best Hotels Rankings WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2021 — U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in rankings and consumer advice, today announced the Best Hotels rankings, which evaluate more than 30,000 luxury hotels and resorts across the USA, Europe, Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. Even though global travel remains limited, these hotels continue to operate at the […]

The Largest Militaries in the World Chinese Army When it comes to pure manpower, no country in the world comes close to China. According to Global Firepower estimates, the People’s Republic currently has roughly 2.19 million active military personnel at its disposal. With far fewer in second and third place are India and the United States with 1.45 and […]

The Human Brain Has astonishing Similarities to the Entire Universe, Study  Italian astrophysicist and neurosurgeon came up with a surprising claim: The structures of the neuronal networks of the human brain are amazingly similar to the cosmic network of galaxies in the observable universe. The study published in Frontiers of Physics by Franco Vazza, an astrophysicist at the […]

The U.S. Elections Project, a nonpartisan website run by the University of Florida professor Michael McDonald, has announced that the 2020 presidential election has had the highest voting turnout rate in 120 years. McDonald tweeted preliminary estimates of turnout among the voting-eligible population, putting it at 66.9 percent with 160 million people casting their vote. I posted PRELIMINARY […]

NASA has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places. Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from […]

A rare blast of light, emitted by a star as it is sucked in by a supermassive black hole, has been spotted by scientists using telescopes from around the world. The phenomenon, known as a tidal disruption event, is the closest flare of its kind yet recorded, occurring just 215 million light-years from Earth. It […]

After leaving Walter Reed Medical Center yesterday, President Trump had a positive message for the American people after the first few days of his experience with Covid-19: “Don’t be afraid of COVID. Don’t let it dominate your life.” As survey data from YouGov shows though, the majority of American adults fear contracting Covid-19 to some degree – […]

Marriot International Witnessed the Biggest Market Cap Drop in 2020 The coronavirus outbreak has affected every sector across the globe, but the hotel industry is among the hardest hit. Although hotels implemented increased safety and sanitation measures and cautiously reopened for the summer travel season, recovery to pre-COVID-19 levels could take years. According to data […]

An international team of astronomers today announced the discovery of a rare molecule — phosphine — in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially or by microbes that thrive in oxygen-free environments. Astronomers have speculated for decades that high clouds on Venus could offer a home for microbes — floating […]

It seems that the pandemic has motivated U.S. expats to cut ties and avoid the current political climate and onerous tax reporting According to recently released data, the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship has reached a record level. Bambridge Accountants, a New York-based tax firm, stated that 5,816 people relinquished their citizenship in the […]