Ever wondered how astronauts enjoy their morning coffee while floating around in the vastness of space? Well, it's not as simple as brewing a cup in your kitchen and sipping it from your favourite mug. Astronauts have a pretty cool and unique way of enjoying their coffee while they're out there in the space. Why you can't use a regular cup in space? Imagine you're in a spaceship, and you're about to enjoy a cup of coffee. First things first, you can't use a regular cup. Why? Because in space, there's no gravity to keep your coffee in the cup. It would just float away like magic! So, astronauts use specially designed space cups to keep everything under control. What makes the space cups special? These cups have a special shape that gives the angle to make the coffee flow to the edge per capillary action. The best part? These special cups and pouches keep the coffee from floating away, so astronauts can enjoy their caffeine fix without worrying about it escaping into the spaceship. So there you have it, space coffee in a nutshell! Astronauts get to enjoy their daily dose of coffee in a pretty unique way, with special cups. It's just one of the cool things that make life in space a bit different from life on Earth. Cheers to astronauts and their cosmic coffee adventures! But that's not the only clever part of the equation. The coffee itself is also specially prepared for space. Instead of your usual brewed coffee, astronauts have coffee pouches filled with freeze-dried coffee granules. When they're ready for a cup of coffee, they inject hot water into these pouches. This rehydrates the coffee, turning it into a delicious, aromatic brew. Then, with their trusty straw, they can sip it from the specially designed cup without any worry of floating coffee droplets escaping into the spaceship. Also watch: NASA astronaut Frank Rubio breaks US record for longest spaceflight

Shi Hailin, an athlete from China, must have felt on top of the world, quite literally as he claimed the Guinness World Record for the fastest 100 m slackline walk. But the impressive part about this walk is that he did it in just 1 minute 14.198 seconds. The Guinness World Record said Hailin did the bold stunt 1,600 m above sea level at the Guanyindang camp in Mount Wugong in Pingxiang province of China. Hailin walked for more than 222 meters on a wobbly rope that was way up high between two hills. He was also timed while he walked a distance of 100 meters on that rope. Shi Hailin broke the previous 2016 record achieved by Lucas Milliard Hailin beat a record that was set in 2016 by Lucas Milliard from France. Lucas had completed the challenge in 1 minute and 59.73 seconds, but 31-year-old Chinese was even faster! While speaking to Guinness World Records.com, Hailin said that he hopes to draw more attention to this aerial sport through his attempt. Social media users' react to Shi Hailin's world record As internet users came across the video of Hailin balancing his way out on the rope, they were impressed by it. Several social media users reacted by saying that this man can balance any country's economy and budget. Others reacted by saying that this is pure talent. It is also worth taking note that Hailin developed a passion for this sport in 2016 and has emerged as a leading athlete. Also watch: Video: 104-year-old Chicago woman skydives from plane, eyes world record

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said that the Trump Campaign sent her a birdcage and bird food in the aftermath of her impressive performance on the debate stage last week. Haley has been polling second after Trump in some of the key early primary and caucus states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. In the immediate aftermath of last week’s GOP primary debate, the Trump campaign issued a string of statements against Haley. Early Sunday, the Trump Campaign left a birdcage along with some bird food outside Haley’s hotel room in Iowa, where she was campaigning, the former South Carolina Governor and the US ambassador to the United Nations said. Haley also posted a picture of the birdcage and said, “After a day of campaign, this is the message waiting for me outside my hotel room.” “This behavior is weird, creepy, and desperate from a former president feeling the pressure,” Betsy Ankney, Haley’s campaign manager, told The New York Post in a statement. “It’s more proof that it’s time to leave the drama behind. America is better than this. Let’s go,” she said. Trump went on his Truth Social to attack Haley. “MAGA, or I, will never go for Birdbrain Nikki Haley,” Trump wrote in a post. “Birdbrain doesn’t have the TALENT or TEMPERAMENT to do the job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” wrote the former president, who is seeking to get the GOP’s presidential nomination for the third consecutive term. She was at least arguably the winner of the first two GOP debates, no easy task for a woman dealing with a pack of shouting men, it said. “That’s why the more GOP voters see of her, the more they like her. To make matters worse, Trump and his team were so proud of themselves that, like schoolkids, they came up with a harebrained plan to send a birdcage and some bird food to Haley’s hotel room door in the middle of the night,” the daily said.

The US government has issued its first fine to a company that violated its anti-space debris rule. The US Federal Communications Commission has asked Dish Network to pay $150,000 over its failure to de-orbit its EchoStar-7 satellite which has been in space since 2002. Dish Network in 2012 had agreed to an orbital debris mitigation plan that would send its satellite into a 'graveyard orbit' where it would not be a risk to other active satellites.Instead of properly de-orbiting the satellite, Dish sent it into a “disposal orbit” at an altitude low enough to pose orbital debris risk.

A 104-year-old Chicago woman is hoping to be certified as the oldest person to ever skydive after making a tandem jump from 13,500 feet in northern Illinois. The Chicago Tribune reports Dorothy Hoffner told a cheering crowd that “age is just a number” moments after she touched the ground Sunday at Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois. She made the jump while tethered to a certified instructor. The Guinness World Record for the oldest skydiver was set in May 2022 by 103-year-old Linnéa Ingegärd Larsson from Sweden. But WLS-TV reports that Skydive Chicago is working to have Guinness World Records certify Hoffner’s jump.

More than 100 dolphins died in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past week due to a severe drought in the region, and many more could also expire soon if water temperatures remain high. The Mamiraua Institute, a research body of Brazil’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, said two more dead dolphins were found on Monday in the region of Tefe Lake, which is key for mammals and fish in that area. Thousands of fish have also died, according to local media. Experts believe the high temperatures of the waters are the most likely reason for the mortality in the region. Temperatures have exceeded 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) in some parts. Miriam Mamontel has been working with Amazon dolphins for 30 years and says she has never seen anything like it, explaining that the deaths amount to 5 to 10% of the population of the two species of freshwater dolphin in Tefe Lake. Before the recent deaths, some 900 river dolphins and 500 Tucuxis inhabited the lake, Mamontel estimated. The state of Amazonas is facing an extreme drought that is affecting 60 out of the 62 cities in the state, leaving many communities isolated, as rivers are the main form of transportation. The Mamiraua Institute has warned that water temperatures may rise again in the next few days and could affect even more animals.

A scientist associated with The Netherlands-based Seismological Research Institute Solar System Geometry Survey has claimed that a strong earthquake could hit Pakistan between October 1 to October 3. The seismic organisation noted that strong underground tremors have been recorded along the Chaman fault line in Balochistan. Pakistan has the largest fault line in South Asia called the Chaman fault system, it is 900 km long. The Chaman fault separates the Eurasian Plate from the Indo-Australian Plate. It is along this fault line that a terrible earthquake occurred in Quetta on May 31, 1935, killing thousands of people. Areas of Afghanistan and Pakistan fall in this fault line. The SSGS reasoned that fluctuations of electric charge in the atmosphere near the sea level have been recorded, due to which some areas including Pakistan's Balochistan province may experience powerful earthquakes in the next few days. According to SSGS, the areas defined are only approximations and there is currently no reliable way to determine exact locations. The SSGS has declared the Chaman fault line as a region of high-potential seismicity The scientist who made the prediction is Frank Hoper Bates. He had tweeted on February 3 and said that sooner or later an earthquake of magnitude 7.5 will occur in South Central Turkey, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. His prediction came to be true 3 days later. Nearly 60,000 people died in the earthquake that struck Turkiye and Syria on February 3. However, according to the US Geological Survey, earthquakes cannot be predicted with pinpoint accuracy. One can predict the probability of a quake in certain areas within a certain timeframe but the exact date, time and location can't be predicted. Also Watch: Pakistan's seismic agency rejects Dutch scientist's 'prediction' of strong earthquake

Katalin Karikó, the Hungarian scientist who won this year's Nobel Prize for medicine along with her research partner Drew Weissman recalled how 10 years ago she had been forced to retire. In her first reaction to winning the Nobel Prize for her discoveried about mRNA that contributed to the development of Covid-19 vaccines, Kariko said that she was thrown out of University of Pennsylvania 10 years and forced to retire. She added that 10 years ago she was still doing all her experiments by hand. The Nobel committee said Kariko and Weissman 'through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times.' Also Watch: Sikh businessman's car shot at, vandalised by Khalistan supporters in UK

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was given to Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan's University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and Drew Weissman, who performed his prizewinning research together with Karikó at the University of Pennsylvania. "Through their groundbreaking findings, which have fundamentally changed our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system, the laureates contributed to the unprecedented rate of vaccine development during one of the greatest threats to human health in modern times,” the panel that awarded the prize said. Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly, announced the prize and said both scientists were “overwhelmed” by news of the prize when he contacted them shortly before the announcement. The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was won last year by Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for discoveries in human evolution that unlocked secrets of Neanderthal DNA which provided key insights into our immune system, including our vulnerability to severe COVID-19. The award was the second in the family. Paabo's father, Sune Bergstrom, won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1982. Nobel announcements continue with the physics prize on Tuesday, chemistry on Wednesday and literature on Thursday. The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced Friday and the economics award on October 9. The prizes carry a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (USD 1 million). The money comes from a bequest left by the prize's creator, Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel, who died in 1896. The prize money was raised by 1 million kronor this year because of the plunging value of the Swedish currency. The laureates are invited to receive their awards at ceremonies on December 10, the anniversary of Nobel's death. The prestigious Peace Prize is handed out in Oslo, according to his wishes, while the other award ceremony is held in Stockholm.

Pakistan's National Seismic Monitoring Centre has rejected claims by a Dutch scientist that a strong earthquake could hit the country's Balochistan region between October 1 and 3, Samaa TV reported. The agency said that it is not possible to accurately predict the time of an earthquake, according to the report. It added that many predictions of the Solar System Geometry Survey have been wrong in the past. Also Watch: Scientist claims strong earthquake will hit Pakistan in next 2 days. Can they be predicted accurately?