Bones found in Tanque Loma represent 22 sloths; adults and juveniles. During the Ice Age, a group of giant ground sloths died together after swallowing their own feces in a contaminated pool of shallow water. Scientists discovered the bones of…
Queen Elizabeth I’s favourite explorer was driven mad searching for the mythic ‘Golden Empire,’ otherwise known as El Dorado. Not many people have the distinction of putting a nonexistent place on the map, but Sir Walter Raleigh was one of…
Olga Ovinnikova claims that her face has been left badly burned after medical masks at the hospital she works at in Karabanovo, Russia were cleaned with bleach and then reused Olga Ovinnikova suffered chemical burns to her face A nurse…
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which means “sugar-loving fungus,” is the yeast that humans know and love for bread-making and beer-brewing. With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of…
Archaeological investigations following the opening of a sinkhole in Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon in Rome have unearthed the ancient pavement of the imperial era. A sinkhole unexpectedly opened up in front of the Pantheon in Rome…
Five people living in the same residential block were discovered as having Covid-19, it has been reported, as the Jilin region said it was now in ‘war-time mode’ to stop a surge of new cases Wuhan has reported its first…
Curiosity can handle the harsh radiation on the Martian surface. But people can’t. There’s no safe place to camp out on Mars. But a team of researchers has identified what could be future Martian explorers’ best possible hideout: a string…
This is the largest piece of the 2,100-year-old Antikythera Mechanism, which is on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece. The Histories by Herodotus (484BC to 425BC) offers a remarkable window into the world as it was known to the ancient Greeks…
As a physician, mother, daughter and socially responsible human, I’m finding Mother’s Day to be complicated for me this year, as it is for millions. Questions of whether and how to see my adult children and my own elderly mother…
A National Weather Service map shows where freeze warnings (navy) are in effect for this weekend. Temperatures are expected to drop to record lows for this time of year across much of the northern U.S east of the Rocky Mountains.…