A binary pair of red dwarf stars might be warping space-time and distorting our view of another star much, much farther away. In summer 2016, astronomers watched a star 2,500 light-years away in the Cygnus constellation flash to life as…
A satellite view of an ice ring on Lake Baikal. Is it the one true ring to rule them all? The humongous, mysterious “ice rings” that pockmark the world’s deepest lake during Siberia’s winter and spring months may look like…
n The woman in Italy, who is unnamed, started growing ‘eyelash-like’ hairs in her mouth, due to a rare disorder n The idea of finding a hair in your mouth is enough to make most people feel nauseous, but for…
n The 31-year-old woman fled Salzburg Hospital in Austria where she had been kept in an isolation wing since Tuesday because doctors suspected she had been infected by the corona virus n A woman suspected of being infected by the…
n A teenage girl in Washington DC was referred to specialists at Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC after suffering painful throat swelling n It’s often portrayed as a ‘safer’ alternative to smoking, but a new study may put you…
Demodex mites burrow face-first inside the pores at the bottom of your hair follicles. Shown here, a scanning electron micrograph of such mites protruding from a dissected human hair follicle. Don’t freak out, but you probably have a few dozen…
MH370 actually flew north over Asia rather than south over the Indian Ocean, secretly collected data appears to show. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on…
n Screening for some 3,700 passengers on the liner anchored off Yokohama began on Tuesday and passengers have been confined to their rooms with the ship eerily deserted n Ten people quarantined on a cruise liner anchored in the Japanese…
Gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, slip through Earth all the time, carrying secrets about the universe. But until a few years ago, we couldn’t detect these waves at all, and even now, we have only the most basic ability…
A NEWBORN puppy has been hailed a “real-life cyclops” after being born with only one eye, placed in the centre of his head. The pup, who has been named Kevin after the Minions character of the same name, was born…