Five people have been confirmed dead, 31 remain in hospital with injuries and eight are still missing after sudden volcanic eruptions on Whakaari/White Island off the east coast of New Zealand. The island is a tourist destination and 47 people…
An eruption on White Island in New Zealand has left 5 dead and many injured. A volcano erupted violently on a New Zealand island today local time, sending ash up to 12,000 feet (3,700 meters) into the air, leaving five…
Famous painters da Vinci and Rembrandt, though from different centuries, had one oddity in common: The way the artists saw themselves in the mirror was likely a bit different than how others saw them, according to new findings. The Renaissance…
This horned “rook” may be the world’s oldest-known chess piece. In the game of chess, a rook can move as many spaces as it can in one direction. Or, it can sit stone-still and guard the pieces around it, potentially…
The reptile’s long tail is visible, but most of the crocodile’s body is hidden under the bulk of the elephant that crushed it to death. A recent confrontation between an elephant and a crocodile ended in a surprising twist that…
On Sept. 15, a group of journalists visited the control room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactor 4. Tourists can now visit the control room of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, the scene of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. But the…
When your dog’s big, pleading eyes look up at you, is it with old-age wisdom or teenage naiveté? Researchers came up with a new equation to calculate your dog’s age in human years. And the math isn’t as simple as…
This life restoration shows the snake Najash rionegrina moving through the dunes of the Kokorkom desert that extended across Río Negro (in Northern Patagonia), Argentina, during the Late Cretaceous (100 million years ago). On very rare occasions, an exceptional fossil…
AN alien base has been sighted on the surface of Mars in re-examined NASA Spirit rover photographs, an UFO hunter has outlandishly claimed. One of two rovers sent in 2003 to search for signs of past life on Mars, NASA’s…
MH370’s disappearance has been studied for the past five years and French investigators have ruled out any hijacking. The Malaysia Airlines 370 flight disappeared on March 8, 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on…