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AI-powered robots face off in China soccer tournament
(UPI) - The first ROBO League robot soccer tournament took place in China, pitting AI-powered teams of robot players against one another in 3 vs. 3 matches. The tournament, held Saturday in Beijing, drew a crowd of thousands of curious spectators to watch the robots attempt to score goals using strategies determined by...
Jul 14, 2025
Dinosaurs dash for the finish line in T-Rex World Championship Races
(UPI) --More than 300 people donned inflatable dinosaur costumes and took to the track at Emerald Downs in Washington for the annual T-Rex World Championship Races. The yearly event at the Auburn racetrack began when TriGuard Pest Control held it as a team-building exercise in 2017, and the race quickly gained populari...
Jul 10, 2025
Massachusetts woman records mystery object in the sky
June 27 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts woman relaxing in her outdoor hot tub captured video when she spotted a mystery object floating in the sky. Colleen McCormack said she was in the hot tub outside her Pembroke home about 9 p.m. Wednesday when she spotted the object. "I was chilling in my hot tub, I look up in the sk...
Jun 30, 2025
Pope Leo breaks from papal dress codes - with a White Sox baseball cap
CNN - The pope has been spotted in sportswear - and this time it isn't AI. Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first American pope, wore a White Sox baseball cap during a public appearance at the Vatican, making him the first pope to make such a casual pairing with his white cassocks. Leo, born Robert Provost, was p...
Jun 13, 2025
Miniature dachshund found after 529 days in the wild on Kangaroo Island
(UPI) -- The miniature dachshund who fled from her owners on Australia's Kangaroo Island has been rescued after 549 days in the wild. The dog, named Valerie, fled from a Stokes Bay campsite while visiting with her owners, Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock, in November 2023. The duo spent a week searching the area with ...
May 02, 2025
These groups are working to save bees and butterflies on the brink. Here's how you can help the pollinators
CNN - You can help Mother Nature in a battle for survival. Pollinators, which provide one out of every three bites of our food, are struggling. Five butterfly species in the United States have gone extinct since 1950, and dozens more are on the verge of extinction according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conser...
Dec 05, 2024
'Great enigma': Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object
CNN - Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed one of the largest Roman dodecahedrons ever found, but mystery surrounds what it was actually used for. The 12-sided object is one of just 33 known to exist in Roman Britain, and one of approximately 130 in the world. It is considered "one of archaeology's gre...
Apr 30, 2024
A sea otter pup found alone in Alaska has a new home at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium
CHICAGO (AP) - An 8-week-old arrival from Alaska chirps loudly before devouring ice chips in the nursery at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. He is Pup EL2306 - proper name to be determined - a northern sea otter who was found alone and malnourished in the remote town of Seldovia in October and taken to the Alaska SeaLife Cent...
Dec 13, 2023
Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England's 'Jurassic Coast'
CNN - The remarkably well-preserved skull of a gigantic pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, has been discovered on a beach in the county of Dorset in southern England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures. Pliosaurs dominated the oceans at a time when dinosaurs roamed the land. The unearthed...
Dec 13, 2023
TSA's 2024 canine calendar will melt your travelin' heart
(CNN)- It's not often that the words "TSA" and "adorable" come together in the same sentence. Long lines, discarded items, a sometimes-grumpy atmosphere - not much to love there. But those two words are a natural pairing when it comes the Transportation Security Administration's annual canine calend...
Nov 29, 2023
