A newborn baby. U.S. life expectancy at birth has increased for the first time in four years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And a large part of this increase is attributable…
As a new coronavirus spreads in China and around the world, scientists are scrambling to find out exactly where it came from. Now, a new study provides more clues to the virus’ origins, and points to bats as the most…
The nurse at the Ulm University Medical Centre in southern Germany was arrested after a syringe containing breast milk with morphine was found in a locker during a police raid Five babies were poisoned with morphine, police in Germany said…
Cookies on a plate. When the woman arrived at the emergency room, doctors thought she was having a stroke. But it turned out she was just really high. The woman was intoxicated with THC, which she had unknowingly ingested right…
The newfound Araniella villanii is an orb-weaver spider, a group that uses math to spin their webs. A newly discovered neon-green spider that uses math to build its incredibly precise and consistent webs has just been named after the “Lady…
Humans have pumped about 2 trillion tons (1.8 trillion metric tons) of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere since the start of the Industrial Revolution, and the ocean has absorbed about 25% of it. This glut of greenhouse gases not…
The remains of Takabuti, a woman who was murdered 2,600 years ago in Egypt. It took 2,600 years to crack the case, but Egyptologists have finally determined how a curly haired, elite woman from ancient Thebes met her untimely end. …
The The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) orbits the Earth in this illustration. Two defunct satellites will zip past each other at 32,800 mph (14.7 kilometers per second) in the sky over Pittsburgh on Wednesday evening (Jan. 29). If the two…
Gabriela Barajas, whose husband Jorge Navarro Sánchez died alongside co-star Luis Gerardo Rivera Tragic Mexican actor Jorge Navarro Sánchez died after plunging 16ft from a bridge The heartbroken wife of a TV star who plunged to his death alongside a…
WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGE: The shaman, from Indonesia, repeatedly spun the cobra round and laughed as it became increasingly angry until he was bitten by the reptile A snake charmer was killed after showing off to villagers by teasing a…