A photo shows two researchers in a rowboat inside the Super Kamiokande detector, which detects neutrinos as they slam into water molecules. Inside a cavern, buried beneath a mountain in Japan, there’s a giant tank of water that has been…
An artist’s impression of the star S2 precessing around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been proven right (again!), thanks to the wobbly dance of a high-speed star swirling around…
MH370 disappeared over six years ago and investigators have not been able to say conclusively who is responsible but one expert has claimed the Russian government had both the means and the motive to have done it. Malaysia Airlines Flight…
Hippos are native to sub-Saharan Africa, but a once captive herd of escaped animals is right at home in northwestern Colombia. Hippos that were brought to Colombia decades ago by Pablo Escobar, the notorious cocaine kingpin, are now thriving in…
An illustration showing the newfound raptor dinosaur Dineobellator notohesperus, which lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period in what is now New Mexico. The ceratopsid (horned dinosaur) Ojoceratops and sauropod Alamosaurus are in the background. About 70
CORONAVIRUS has spread across the globe and so have hoax conspiracies and false predictions supposedly penned by the French prophet Nostradamus. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than 420,000 people since it emerged in China last November. Before the outbreak,…