An illustration of the Big Bang and the expansion of the universe. Has the universe been around forever? If so, perhaps it’s been bouncing back and forth in a never-ending cycle of big bangs in which all matter bubbles out…
The drawings engraved on the stone plaquettes from the ancient site on the Channel Island of Jersey are thought to be about 15,000 years old, making them the oldest artworks found in Britain. Britain’s oldest artwork has been unearthed on…
ALIEN hunters claim to have found a human-like face on Mars, pointing out oddly-shaped rocks in NASA’s official photos of the Red Planet. A supposed alien face was snapped by the Mars Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the planet…
A United States Geological Survey map shows Laura’s storm track. Tropical storm Laura is now a hurricane, and it’s expected to grow even more powerful as it whirls toward Louisiana and Texas. The storm passed over Cuba and into the…
A schoolgirl is vaccinated against polio during a mass polio vaccination campaign on April 12, 2005, in Kano, Nigeria. Africa is free of wild poliovirus, after decades of vaccination campaigns, according to news reports. An independent body called the Africa…
Youths found an 1,100-year-old gold hoard during an excavation in Israel. About 1,100 years ago, someone stashed a small fortune of pure gold coins in a clay jar and nailed that jar to a hole in the ground, likely with…