The rock shelter at Shum Laka in Cameroon. Surprisingly, the ancient people who lived at this rock shelter are not related to the people in the region today. During the Stone Age in what is now western Cameroon, four children…
A bright supernova flares across the sky in this illustration. In 2006, researchers detected one of the brightest supernova explosions ever — and they may finally be able to explain it. In September 2006, an exploding star 50 billion times…
The mummified body of the ancient Egyptian priest Nesyamun underwent medical scans in 2018 so that a copy of its vocal tract could be made. The voice of an ancient Egyptian priest has been heard for the first time in…
People wear face masks as they wait at Hankou Railway Station on Jan. 22, 2020, in Wuhan, China, where the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV originated. A newly identified coronavirus has been spreading in China, and has now reached several other countries.…
Tick, tick, tick. Humanity’s headlong dash toward our own destruction is marked in minutes and seconds in the ticking of the hypothetical Doomsday Clock. How close we are to destroying ourselves registers in the nearness of the clock’s hands to…
The Egyptian priest, known as Nesyamun, hasn’t spoken in more than 3,000 years, but now his voice has been synthesised An ancient Egyptian mummy has been ‘brought back to life’ after British scientists recreated its voice. The Egyptian priest, known…
STEPHEN HAWKING made a “near-certain” calculation for the end of the world, but he did not think the event would mark the end of the human race, an unearthed interview reveals. Professor Hawking, who passed away in 2018, was a theoretical…
The Doomsday Clock is designed to warn the public about how close we are to destroying the world with dangerous technologies The Doomsday Clock has officially ticked forwards by 20 seconds, taking the world closer to the apocalypse. The new…
When temperatures tumble, so do iguanas. Jan 21 – This isn’t something we usually forecast, but don’t be surprised if you see Iguanas falling from the trees tonight as lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Brrrr! #flwx #miami pic.twitter.com/rsbzNMgO01January…
The restored lamb from Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece gazes into your soul. “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb,” a 15th-century masterwork by the brothers Jan and Hubert van Eyck, has finally been restored after three painstaking years…