A newly discovered car-sized asteroid just made the closest-known flyby to Earth without hitting our planet. On Sunday (Aug. 16), the asteroid, initially labeled ZTF0DxQ and now formally known to astronomers as 2020 QG, swooped by Earth at a mere…
Lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny was taken ill suddenly on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow and has been put on a ventilator, his press secretary said Alexei Navalny (Image: REUTERS) Prominent Vladimir Putin foe Alexei Navalny was rushed…
Zinaida Kononova has been pronounced dead after surgery in Russia with plans started for her funeral but hours later she ‘woke up’ at the morgue and was rushed to hospital Zinaida Kononova woke up in the morgue hours after her…
The child, from Sao Mateus, Brazil became pregnant after she was allegedly raped by her uncle and had to be smuggled into the hospital for the procedure A media throng at the hospital as the groups rally (Image: Newsflash) Military…
A California resident has tested positive for plague, marking the state’s first human case of the disease in five years, according to health officials. The case was confirmed on Monday (Aug. 17) in a resident of South Lake Tahoe, according…
An artist’s impression of NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity flying on the Red Planet. NASA’s Mars helicopter, named Ingenuity, successfully powered up for the first time in space this month. Ingenuity is the first helicopter designed to fly on another planet.…
Anterior view of Bathynomus raksasa, a new species of giant isopod. Buglike marine creatures that skitter across the sea bottom can grow to be as big as puppies, and a newly described species is one of the largest ever seen.…
WARNING – GRAPHIC IMAGES The 84-year-old left his home in Perth to investigate a disturbance and was attacked – police believe a weapon was used and have appealed for help tracking down those responsible The elderly man is now fighting…
A new saliva test for COVID-19 that can be completed in just a few hours has been authorized for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The test has several advantages over traditional nasal swab tests: It’s cheap,…
The biotechnology company Novavax will soon begin the second phase of human testing for its COVID-19 vaccine. The so-called phase 2b clinical trial will include a group of 2,665 healthy adults in South Africa, as well as a group of…