Our planet’s oceans are warmer than they’ve ever been in recorded human history. And ocean temperatures are not only increasing, they are heating up at an accelerating rate, according to a new analysis. In 2019, the ocean temperature was about…
Leprosy mutilated the face of this high-status woman, who lived from the mid-15th to the 16th century in Scotland. Leprosy mutilated her body more than 500 years ago, but this Scotish woman’s likeness isn’t lost to history; a new digital…
A newly discovered species of bone eating worm (seen here as brown fuzz) picks clean the bones of an underwater alligator carcass. Yum! Once upon a research grant, scientists strapped three dead alligators into weighted harnesses and deposited the corpses…
A UFO has been spotted buzzing past the International Space Station (ISS) during a NASA live stream, an alien life conspiracy theorist has shockingly claimed. Self-styled UFO expert Scott Waring made the outlandish claims about the ISS anomaly on his…
Nearly four decades ago, a construction worker discovered a gigantic bar of gold while excavating ahead of construction of a new building in Mexico City. Now, archaeologists have confirmed that this slab of gold was plundered from the Aztecs by…
Researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered the planets orbiting stars GJ180 and GJ229A – two of the nearest stars to our own