For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses, many of them unknown to modern science. Scientists recently broke up this party…
The leader of the excavation, archaeologist Daniele Morandi Bonacossi, and one of the panels of Assyrian carvings unearthed in the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq. Stunning ancient rock carvings that portray an Assyrian king paying homage to his gods amid…
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Muhammad Idul was on a boat in the waters off Wakinamboro village in the South Buton regency, southern Indonesia, when a fish suddenly leaped at him and speared his neck The needlefish speared the teen through the…
The woman, who has not been named, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. The woman said she didn’t know she was pregnant until she suddenly went into labour in Rome, Italy</p> A woman has been charged after her baby hit…
MH370’s co-pilot may have sent out a distress signal through text, a clue that could help point to what happened to the Boeing 777. Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to…
The new SARS-like virus that’s causing an outbreak in China has now arrived in the United States, officials announced today (Jan. 21). Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said they had detected the virus — a…
Evolution and natural selection take place at the level of DNA, as genes mutate and genetic traits either stick around or are lost over time. But now, scientists think evolution may take place on a whole other scale — passed…
A massive meteorite impact and extreme volcanic activity occurred around the same time that Earth’s large dinosaurs went extinct. But, did the volcanic activity play a role in the mass extinction, or did it actually help new life to flourish? …
A mysterious cosmic event might have ever-so-slightly stretched and squeezed our planet last week. On Jan. 14, astronomers detected a split-second burst of gravitational waves, distortions in space-time … but researchers don’t know where this burst came from. The gravitational…
The warped man, branded the Plug Sadist, attracted victims by promising to pay more than £2,500 for taking part in medical experiments. The fake medic, identified as David G in Germany, was found guilty of 13 counts of attempted murder…