November 6, 2026

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Urban Heat Island Effect: In 2024, Philadelphia coated one of its hottest neighbourhood roads with lighter colour coating to reduce the “urban heat island effect”; the pavement cooled down, but the people standing on it may not have felt it

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AI generated image via Canva The sun’s scorching heat often transforms the roads and pavements into no...
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In 2020, 10-year-old Murphy Widdowson collected a spider on a remote Australian island that experts could not identify; scientists later declared it a new species and named it Artoriopsis murphyi after him

Aj Mix Editor August 25, 2026
While on the remote island Murphy picked up a small spider that intrigued him, and he decided...
Read More Read more about In 2020, 10-year-old Murphy Widdowson collected a spider on a remote Australian island that experts could not identify; scientists later declared it a new species and named it Artoriopsis murphyi after him