CORONAVIRUS and the COVID-19 pandemic were predicted by the 16th-century mystic Nostradamus, conspiracy theorists have claimed online. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has claimed more than 10,000 lives since it first appeared in China last November. The virus, which has never…
Last updated May 1 at 6:18 pm E.D.T. As of May 1, Maryland is reporting 23,472 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 1,098 deaths associated with the virus, according to Maryland.gov. This makes it 13th in the list of states for the…
The skin rashes that may be tied to COVID-19 take many forms, from tiny red dots to larger, flat lesions, doctors say. Numerous reports of skin rashes in patients with COVID-19 are cropping up around the world. The rashes can…
The island of Maui in Hawaii. Last updated May 4 at 8:29 a.m. ET. There have been 620 “confirmed or presumptive” cases of COVID-19 in Hawaii, according to a statement from the Hawaii State Department of Health. Epidemiologists have confirmed…
The plague’s feline victims were largely adult cougars, but one 3-month-old kitten did die of the disease. The plague is notorious for killing tens of millions of people throughout history, but a new study has revealed that the deadly bacteria…
Scientists have discovered six entirely new coronaviruses lurking in bats in Myanmar. These viruses are in the same family as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that is currently spreading across the globe; but the researchers said the newbies aren’t closely related genetically…
A submersible dubbed Jiaolong in the Mariana Trench on June 27, 2012, in the western Pacific Ocean. Plastics have been found even in the trench, which is home to the deepest point on Earth. Underwater avalanches are likely burying bits…
The sun set over the right shoulder of the Sphinx during the spring equinox this year. The Sphinx had a “distinctive astronomical” moment with the sun during the spring equinox when, in a shining flourish, the sun set on the…
An assortment of weathered Lego bricks pulled from the ocean. The ocean around the U.K. is strewn with Lego bricks. Some of them were flushed there; one U.K. insurance company estimates that children flushed some 2.5 million Lego pieces down…
The Statue of Liberty is famous for her torch-bearing arm, but newly discovered blueprints reveal that this arm was revised to be more slender at the last minute, changing the plans of the French engineer Gustave Eiffel who helped design…