Goodness gracious! Great balls of fire rained from the sky in Chile last week, and officials are still trying to figure out what they were and where they came from. One thing is certain: The mysterious burning objects were not…
Pigeons in Paris are sometimes missing a toe and now researchers think they know why: human hair. Bird-watchers in Paris have for years noticed something odd about the city’s pigeons: Many of the omnipresent avians are missing one or more…
The pup still had its milk teeth, suggesting it was under 2 months old when it died. A young pup that spent 18,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost looks remarkably lifelike and pettable — for a freeze-dried mummy. From its…
The woman’s remains, nearly a millennium older than others in the region, were accompanied by several impressive adornments and artifacts. Office for Urban Development, City of ZurichThe woman was found buried in a woolen dress and shawl, with bronze bracelets,…
A MAJOR earthquake has been forecasted for THIS WEEKEND with a tremor mystic warning people to be on high alert. One earthquake forecaster is predicting a powerful tremor in the coming days, warning it could register as high as a…
MH370’s disappearance could be down to terrorists who hijacked the plane because US engineers from a powerful technology defence company were on board. The missing Malaysia Airlines 370 plane disappeared across the Indian Ocean while en route from Kuala Lumpur…
Our home galaxy has a new, super-precise mass measurement: about 890 billion times the mass of our sun. That’s 3.9 tredecillion lbs. (1.8 tredecillion kilograms), a tredecillion being a 1 with 42 zeros after it, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That amounts to…
Here, an image of the launch-triggered lightning that struck the Apollo 12 rocket. SAN FRANCISCO — When NASA’s Apollo 12 rocket launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 14, 1969, the sight was electrifying — and not in…
A photographer documents the creative architecture the Swiss have made to help their feline friends get around. SWITZERLAND MAY BE the best place in the world to be a housecat. They have freedom, autonomy—and their own cat-specific architecture. Be it…
An illustration of Clostridium perfringens bacteria. This bacterium is one cause of myonecrosis, a “flesh-eating” infection that destroys muscle tissue. Seven people in San Diego have died in recent months from a “flesh eating” infection tied to use of black…