As experts hustled to create diagnostic testing kits for the novel coronavirus, something went awry. At least some of the testing kits that were sent across the U.S. and to dozens of other countries aren’t working properly, the Centers for…
There are many unknowns about the new coronavirus, including whether pregnant women who catch the virus can pass it to their unborn child. Now, a preliminary study suggests the virus, known as 2019-nCoV, may not be transmitted during pregnancy. However,…
Your skin betrays your age, but we’re not talking about wrinkles. Rather, scientists have found that the profile of the microbes on your skin can predict your chronological age to within a few years. Our bodies are covered with microorganisms…
The last woolly mammoths on Earth were a sickly bunch. Dwarf woolly mammoths that lived on Siberia’s Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago were plagued by genetic problems, carrying DNA that increased their risk of diabetes, developmental defects and…
UFOs have long been associated with Area 51 and an alien life enthusiast has now shared bizarre footage purporting to show a disk-shaped craft hovering near the mysterious military base. The shaky amateur 25 second-long footage of unknown origin distinctly…
Flat-Earth believer Mark Sargent clashed with This Morning host Phillip Schofield about the shape of the planet – but he’s not alone in thinking it’s a disc It’s a commonly held view that the earth is round – but it…
The mysterious board game, called senet, dates back around 3,500 years, according to researchers from Maastricht University The Ancient Egyptian ‘board game of death’ (Image: Walter Crist/The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology) An ancient Egyptian‘board game of death’ has been uncovered…
Named as 50-year-old Balakrishnayya, the man feared he would pass on the virus to his family and to those living in the village of Srikalahasti in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh Balakrishnayya took his own life in the holy…
The spiral patterns that appear prominently in the rock carvings are thought to be a symbol among ancestral Pueblo peoples for the sky or the sun. The Pueblo people created rock carvings in the Mesa Verde region of the Southwest…
This photo by a satellite operated by DigitalGlobe, a subsidiary of Maxar Technologies, shows Iran’s Imam Khomeini Space Center on Feb. 5, 2019, shortly before a Safir rocket launch that was later determined to be a failure. Iran’s space program…