In this episode of Life’s Little Mysteries, we’ll take a closer look at some of the mysteries surrounding a couple of things that we do every day — eating and drinking. Why do french fries taste so terrible when they’re…
The temple at Lachish is the first ancient Canaanite temple found in more than 50 years and is extraordinarily well preserved, say archaeologists. A 3,000-year-old temple, built by the Canaanites around the time of the ancient Israelite invasion, has been…
A local farmer discovered this stone half-submerged in an irrigation canal in Turkey. Inscriptions on the stone, dating back to the 8th century B.C. told the story of an ancient lost civilization in Turkey. Last winter, a local farmer in…
Spores of the parasite H. salminicola swim under a microscope. Those alien “eyes” are actually stinger cells, one of the few features this organism hasn’t evolved away. When the parasitic blob known as Henneguya salminicola sinks its spores into the…
Female common wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) A newfound species of parasitic worm wiggles its way into the brains of baby lizards long before the reptiles hatch. How do the nematodes break into developing lizard brains? They sneak in through the…
The giant coconut crab (Birgus latro) is the biggest terrestrial crab in the world. Coconut crabs, Earth’s biggest land crabs, are internet famous from images in which they dwarf trash bins and tear birds limb from limb. But when these…
Ramjeet Ragav died after his bed was reportedly sparked by a lit cigarette at home in Kharkhoda, Sonipat, outside the Indian capital of New Delhi The world’s oldest dad has died in a house fire aged 104. Ramjeet Ragav hit…
The tourist has been quarantined in hospital as police surround the H10 Costa Adeje Palace in Adeje to make sure no-one enters or leaves and hundreds of staff and guests are forced to undergo health checks A Tenerife hotel with…
When a woman in Pennsylvania needed a life-saving liver transplant, she repeatedly ran up against one vexing problem: She kept testing positive for alcohol — which disqualified her from a transplant — even though she swore she hadn’t been drinking. …
This is a transmission electron microscope image showing the new coronavirus emerging from the surface of human cells. It’s not a matter of “if” but “when” the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, will spread in the United States, officials with the Centers…