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From Airbnb to stray cats: Trump’s childhood home in Queens sells for $2 million

The Jamaica–179th Street subway stop in Queens is only about a 10-minute walk from Wareham Place. But an abyss separates the two places. From the crowded low-rise blocks of busy shops, where spotting a white resident is difficult, to single-family homes with manicured yards on quiet streets where cars rarely pass. “Different parts of Queens were rough; this was an oasis,” Donald Trump said in a 2015 New York Times interview. This “oasis” is where the man who is now president of the United States lived as a child, in a house an anonymous family has just bought for $1.93 million.

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The house in Queens where Donald Trump lived until age four, last Thursday.
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Are smart glasses legal in Spain?

With the rise in popularity of AI smart glasses, such as Meta's Ray-Bans, we look at whether or not you're legally allowed to use them to film in public in Spain.

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A Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Has Been Emitting a Radio Signal for Two Decades — and Nobody Can Explain Why

An international team of astronomers has published a detailed study of VT J1906+0849, a radio source discovered in the VLASS survey (Very Large Array Sky Survey) that doesn’t resemble anything else previously catalogued in the Milky Way. The paper, led by Jessie M. Miller of the California Institute of Technology, combines radio, infrared, optical, and […]

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Un misterioso destello en la Vía Láctea que lleva dos décadas emitiendo ondas de radio desconcierta a los astrónomos

Un equipo internacional de astrónomos ha publicado un estudio detallado sobre VT J1906+0849, una fuente de radio descubierta en el sondeo VLASS (Very Large Array Sky Survey) que no se parece a ningún otro objeto conocido en la Vía Láctea. El trabajo, liderado por Jessie M. Miller, del Instituto de Tecnología de California, y publicado […]

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Leonardo da Vinci Was Obsessed With Flight. So Why Did He Draw a Wingless Beetle Next to His Water Engineering Notes?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) filled his notebooks with insects: dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies — almost all of them winged. That focus lines up with what historians already knew about him. Leonardo was fixated on the mechanics of flight, and scholars have long read his drawings of flying insects as studies feeding into his designs for […]

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Leonardo da Vinci dibujó en un manuscrito sobre hidráulica un escarabajo que produce una sustancia usada como afrodisíaco, ¿por qué?

Un dibujo de un escarabajo realizado por Leonardo da Vinci ha permanecido prácticamente ignorado durante siglos. La imagen, que se encuentra en el folio 36-recto del llamado Códice Arundel (MS 263), conservado en la Biblioteca Británica de Londres, representa un escarabajo de la familia de los meloidos, conocido como «escarabajo ampolla» o cantárida. Los autores […]

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