A group of wandering wild elephants have become an overnight Internet sensation in China and globally.

While the original group is made up of 16 elephants, two decided to return home after a week. The rest have continued their journey northward, stopping only for a short break in November 2020 to allow a newly-born elephant and its mother to recover.

Since leaving the reserve, the elephants have walked over 500 kilometers. Along the way, they have entered farms for food and water, walked through urban streets, and even paid a visit to a car dealership and a retirement home. No animals or people have been hurt. However, they have destroyed more than $1 million worth of crops.

Researchers are not sure why the elephants decided to leave or where they are headed. While they are known to leave their habitats in search of food, this is the longest migration of wild elephants recorded in China. Because of the extreme distance traveled, some guess that the elephants may be lost. Elephant expert Chen Mingyong said that the herd's leader possibly "lacks experience and has led the whole group off track."

However, other scientists think the elephants were forced to move due to deforestation（砍伐森林）, Successful conservation efforts have almost doubled the elephant population in the Xishuangbanna National Nature Reserve and the surrounding regions. However, their natural habitat has been greatly reduced to make room for agricultural development.

"As their populations increase, they search for more food for the growing herd," Becky Shu Chen said. "You could say that the increase in agricultural land and plantations in their region is, for elephants, like finding a big sweet shop, right on their doorstep.”

The wandering herd's search for a suitable home has not gone unnoticed by the millions of locals That eagerly follow their daily movements on social media. Adam Chang, assigned to deliver food to the elephants, says, "Before this meeting, I just felt curious about animals. Now. I think I would volunteer in animal rights groups to preserve those giant creatures."

Newly released images of the Sun taken by the pace-based NASA High-resolution Coronal Imager telescope(高分辨率日冕成像仪望远镜) are the highest-resolution pictures of our star ever taken.

According to Scientists from the University of Central Lancashire and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, these pictures reveal that the sun's atmosphere is much more complex than first thought. Parts of the Sun's atmosphere, thought to be dark or mostly empty, are in fact filled with strands(缕)of hot electrified gases 311 miles wide. Each of those strands are up to 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit, according to researchers. What exactly created these strands remains unclear, although it will now become a focus for researchers.

NASA's Hi-C telescope can pick out structures in the Sun's atmosphere as small as 43 miles in size---or about 0.01 per cent of the total size of the star. It was able to capture the incredibly tiny magnetic threads in the "dark areas". The Hi-C telescope is a unique astronomical telescope carried into space on a rocket flight. The telescope launches to the edge of space where it then captures images of the star every second before returning to Earth after five minutes.

Dr. Amy Winebarger, Hi-C principal investigator, stated: "These new Hi-C images give us a remarkable insight into the Sun's atmosphere. Along with ongoing missions, this fleet of space-based instrument in the near future will reveal the Sun's dynamic outer layer in a completely new light.

Scientists will debate why the strands are formed and how their presence helps us understand the eruption of solar flares (太阳耀斑) and solar storms. Those are events from the Sun that could directly affect life on Earth.

Tom Williams, a researcher who worked on the Hi-C data, said the images would help provide a greater understanding of how the Earth and Sun related to each other. “This is a fascinating discovery that could better inform our understanding of the flow of energy through the layers of the Sun and eventually down to Earth itself. This is so important if we are to model and predict the behavior of our life-giving star.” he said.

In February of 2022, Walter Orthmann was officially included into the Guinness Book of Records for having the longest career in the same company. On April 19, he turned 100, but the loyal (忠诚的) employee doesn’t plan to retire from the only company he has ever worked for.

Walter began working for Industrias Renaux S.A., a textile company in Brusque, when he was only 15 years old. He began as an assistant in the shipping department, but over the years, he was raised to the sales manager. During his 84-year-long career, Walter went on sales trips all over the world.

“You have to like to work. I started to work with that willingness and fighting spirit,” Walter Orthmann said, when asked what kept him going for over eight decades. “You can’t just do any job to say that you are working. That doesn’t work. You’re not going to be able to stand it.”

Recalling his beginnings with his company, Orthmann said that there were no computers, phones weren’t used at the company, and texts had to be typed on a typewriter and mailed. There was no public lighting, the streets were just dirt, which became muddy when it rained. There was no running water, and each house had its own well.

Everything is much easier today, Orthmann admits. All you need is a mobile phone and an internet connection, and you can do business from anywhere in the world. It’s thanks to technology that he is able to continue working, as he no longer travels like he used to.

Asked what advice he would give people dreaming of staying active and working late into their lives, Orthmann told Brazilian news site Globo: “Don’t be angry, do everything laughing. Just do what you like to do. Don’t have enemies. Apologize. Live calmly. Life is just a passage here on Earth, enjoy it and do what you want.”