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Cuttlefish dazzle mates with light patterns invisible to humans
New York Times, Published on 27/01/2026
» NEW YORK - Many of the snazziest decorations in the animal kingdom are charm offensives, put on by creatures trying to mate. While some of these adornments, like a peacock’s tail feathers or a moose’s antlers, are obvious even to humans, others can be perceived only with sensory capabilities that we do not have.
New photos from Titanic show long-lost statue and damaged bow
New York Times, Published on 04/09/2024
» NEW YORK - In its first expedition to the Titanic in 14 years, the company with exclusive salvage rights to the wreckage site said it had located a bronze statue thought to have been lost forever, and it also discovered some deterioration of the ship.
5 die in quest to see Titanic, implosion suspected
New York Times, Published on 23/06/2023
» NEW YORK: A vast multinational search for five people who had descended to view the wreckage of the sunken RMS Titanic ended on Thursday after pieces of the privately owned submersible vessel that had carried them were found on the ocean floor, evidence of a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the United States Coast Guard.
‘The Little Mermaid’: 13 differences between the original and remake
New York Times, Published on 27/05/2023
» This article contains spoilers about the live-action version of "The Little Mermaid".
Cambodia says lost artifacts found in Gallery 249 at the Met
New York Times, Published on 19/08/2022
» In the 1970s, long after its encyclopaedic collection had been acknowledged as among the world’s finest, the Metropolitan Museum of Art recognised it had slender holdings in South or Southeast Asian art. One in-house estimate suggested that no more than 60 objects were worth exhibiting.
Canada, Denmark settle ownership of an Arctic island
New York Times, Published on 14/06/2022
» Hans Island is just a desolate, kidney shaped piece of rock in the Arctic. But for 49 years, it has been the source of a rare territorial dispute for Canada because it sits right in the middle of the international boundary between that country and Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark.
New Thai cave rescue movie includes Navy Seals footage
New York Times, Published on 07/10/2021
» NEW YORK: Documentary filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi lives in fear of not telling a complete story. What if there is another angle to explore? More footage to uncover? Is her exploration of a topic ever really complete? Those feelings were occupying large swaths of her brain back in May when she was finally able to travel to Thailand.
Unmasked Songkran parties dent Phuket’s reopening hopes
New York Times, Published on 26/04/2021
» PHUKET: Around the corner from the teeth-whitening clinic and the tattoo parlour with offerings in Russian, Hebrew and Chinese, near the outdoor eatery with fried rice meant to fuel sunburned tourists or tired go-go dancers, the Hooters sign has lost its H.
Hotel that put American in jail gets new Tripadvisor label
New York Times, Published on 12/11/2020
» The resort hotel in Thailand got its public apology. The unhappy American guest who spent two nights in jail for criticising the hotel online got his criminal charges dropped. But it was Tripadvisor, the giant online travel review platform, that got the last word.
Vietnam quietly avoids Huawei in building 5G network
New York Times, Published on 19/07/2019
» HANOI: The battle for technological dominance between the United States and China is splitting the world in two, though not always along the lines you might expect.