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California's Carlsbad Flower Fields Welcome Visitors with Full Blooms
People took pictures amid waist-high blossoms in every imaginable hue of orange, pink, yellow and purple at California’s famous Flower Fields in Carlsbad as it opened to the public. The attraction was closed for most of 2020, due to pandemic-related restrictions, but plummeting coronavirus cases

NASA's Ingenuity Helicopter Survives First Night Alone on Mars
NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has survived its first night alone on the frigid surface of Mars, the US space agency said, hailing it as "a major milestone" for the tiny craft as it prepares for its first flight. The ultra-light aircraft was dropped on the surface on Saturday after detaching fr

Samurai Dance Teacher Moves Online as Tokyo Olympics Bans Foreign Spectators
There was a time when Koshiro Minamoto had hoped to welcome foreign tourists during the Olympics by introducing them to the arts of the samurai from a classroom in central Tokyo. But when the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee decided last year that the Games would be postponed, and then last month

GMC Hummer 2022 Sells for $2.5 Million
Charity auctions for first-off-the-line vehicles have become a thing of late in the US given the hammer prices on these vehicles. Last year, the first 2021 Ford Bronco sold for $1,075,000, the German News Agency reported. Lately, the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 just sold for $2,500,000.