The SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. Appropriately enough, the name of Elon Musk’s newborn son contains a tribute to pioneering aerospace tech. The decidedly unusual (and apparently illegal, at least in California) name, X Æ A-12, was devised primarily by the…
People sit on designated areas to ensure social distancing inside a light rapid transit train in Palembang, Indonesia, on March 20, 2020, amid concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although no one yet knows what the future holds for COVID-19, most…
A warty comb jelly (a relative of jellyfish) floats with two baby jellies trapped in it body (marked with red arrows). Later this summer, around the time school usually starts in North America, thousands of invasive jellyfish-like creatures in the…
After the new coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2 enters the human body, it seems to reach sites well beyond the lungs — it’s been found in the kidneys, heart, liver and gastrointestinal tract. And now, researchers have detected the virus in semen,…
The remains of the older warrior woman (left) and her husband, which were excavated from the Airagiin Gozgor archaeological site, in the Orkhon province of northern Mongolia. Archaeologists in Mongolia have found the remains of two ancient women warriors, whose…
THE Ark of the Covenant has been lost for more than 2,000 years but one expert believes the holy relic could be lurking deep beneath Jerusalem. The Ark of the Covenant is said to house the stone tablets Moses carried…