A researcher collects gas samples at the newly discovered Soda Springs in the Philippines. Diving hundreds of feet below the surface of the ocean off the coast of the Philippines, scientists came across a bubbling hotspot of carbon dioxide. And…
Cobbler David Lee underwent toe-to-thumb reconstruction, meaning surgeons replaced a thumb he lost with one of his big toes. (left) A cobbler lost his thumb while trimming the heel of a shoe, but thankfully, surgeons were able to replace the…
Deirdre Morley was on long term sick leave due to stress when her three children were found unresponsive and unconscious at their home in Newcastle, County Dublin Andrew and Deirdre with their three children The mum of three children found…
Life reconstruction of the bizarre Ambopteryx longibrachium, a small Jurassic dinosaur with membranous wings. The world’s most diminutive dinosaur is … a hummingbird! “Birds are just one lineage of dinosaurs that happened to survive to the present,” said Julia Clarke, a…
Commuters in Chengdu, China, don face masks amidst the coronavirus outbreak, on Jan. 23, 2020. The coronavirus that started in Wuhan has sickened more than 4,000 people and killed at least 100 in China as of Jan. 27. Thailand and Hong Kong each have reported eight…
An analysis of the famous ancient Egyptian mummy Takabuti indicates that she died after being stabbed in the upper back near her left shoulder The famous ancient Egyptian mummy, Takabuti, suffered a ‘violent death from a knife attack’, a new…
After getting tangled in a fishing net, this green turtle was brought in for rehabilitation. The phrase “what goes in … must come out” took on a literal meaning for a green turtle that had gobbled up human trash, only…
Exoplanet KELT-9b orbits its local sun once every day and a half. This close proximity makes KELT-9b the hottest exoplanet ever detected. When planning your next interstellar vacation, avoid planet KELT-9b. This hot Jupiter (so named because it is roughly…
An illustration shows a comet passing in front of a star. A pair of Harvard astrophysicists have proposed a wild theory of how life might have spread through the universe. Imagine this: Millions or billions of years ago, back when…
A surprising new discovery of ancient human remains in Africa — with remarkably well-preserved DNA — is redrawing the map of human populations in new and exciting ways. Pierre de Maret Louis UniversityThe rock shelter at Shum Laka, where the…