After decades of poking around in the math behind the glue holding the innards of all matter together, physicists have found a strange hypothetical particle, one that has never appeared in any experiment. Called a sexaquark, the oddball is made…
n Midwives were photographed covered head to toe in protective hazmat suits and masks as they delivered the baby girl, who has been isolated from her mum for testing n A coronavirus patient quarantined in a China hospital has given…
A 30-year-old Danish tourist has died while skydiving in Chon Buri, eastern Thailand, after his parachute failed to fully open during a jump from several thousand feet The tourist’s parachute failed to open fully and he plunged to his death…
An illustration showing the newly discovered dwarf nova system, a finding detailed in the October 2019 issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. A “vampire” dwarf star is sucking the life force from its partner star,…
The genome sequence of the deadly virus sweeping across China is 96% identical to a bat coronavirus, according to a Nature study. China’s Health Commission reported on Sunday that there have been 361 deaths nationwide. Bats are the potential source…
A satellite view of Aylesbury-Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England shows the site where the skeletons were found, at a farm near a graveyard (top center). Excavation for the construction of a retirement community in the rural U.K. recently unearthed 42…
Yamashita’s buried hoard of gold and other valuables, if it exists, is reported to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today. Excavations by treasure hunters searching for a hoard of gold in the Philippines, said to have been hidden by…
This skull and mandible, rumored to belong to Pliny the Elder, prompted new research to assess that claim. A skull discovered almost a century ago on a shore near Pompeii might, just might, be that of Roman naturalist and military…
n A new video posted by Mr Neel Raithatha shows a complex operation performed to remove the tip of a cotton bud from a man’s ear that was on the verge of costing him his hearing n It’s something that…
n While captive seals can be seen clapping in zoos and aquariums, scientists say this is the first time one of their wild counterparts has been caught on camera performing the action n A wild grey seal has been caught…