Giant Squid Washes Up in New Zealand
A huge 14-foot-long squid washed ashore in Wellington, New Zealand, according to media reports. The Ocean Hunter Spearfishing & Freediving Specialists said on Aug. 25 that three brothers Dan, Jack ...
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A huge 14-foot-long squid washed ashore in Wellington, New Zealand, according to media reports. The Ocean Hunter Spearfishing & Freediving Specialists said on Aug. 25 that three brothers Dan, Jack ...
17:08, 25/08/2018
A European satellite, which will be the first to directly measure wind speeds and directions around the world, has taken off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana on board a Vega rocket. The lift ...
15:00, 21/08/2018
SEATTLE—The space company of billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen on Aug. 20 unveiled details of medium-lift rockets and a reusable space cargo plane it is developing, injecting more competitio ...
13:54, 20/08/2018
Officials with International Bird Rescue said staff members are treating more hungry and exhausted young Common Murres at the rescue’s Fairfield wildlife hospital this summer. More than 100 murr ...
15:41, 18/08/2018
NASA says a fireball that streaked across the US South East was traveling about 53,700 miles per hour (86,422 kilometres per hour) when it lit up the night over Alabama. The Meteoroid Environment Offi ...
17:08, 17/08/2018
Scientists in Florida are on the cusp of developing promising methods to control toxic algae blooms like the “red tide” that has been killing marine life along a 150-mile stretch of the Gu ...
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A team of U.S. and Peruvian researchers made new discoveries recently in Peru’s Chavin de Huantar archaeological site including three underground galleries, ceramic pieces and human remains. The ...
15:47, 01/09/2018
Boulders known as “hunger stones” are reappearing in the Elbe River, due to this summer’s drought in Central Europe. The low water levels in the river that begins in the Czech Republ ...
10:40, 24/08/2018
CAIRO—For thousands of years beneath Egypt’s desert sands a solidified whitish substance sat in a broken jar. Scientists now say it’s “probably the most ancient archaeological solid ...
10:05, 21/08/2018
The body of Hambo Lama Itighelov, who was a spiritual leader of Russian Buddhists from 1911 to 1927, was first exhumed from the grave in 1955, at the Lama’s request. When after the third exhumat ...
14:05, 11/08/2018
Ancient remains of three individuals from as far back as 7,000 years ago were discovered in Mexico. Archaeologists at a Mexico City news conference revealed that the remains of ancestors of the Mayan ...
16:01, 10/08/2018
CT scans have revealed the inner contents of an Egyptian mummy to be that of a stillborn human baby, not as the mummified hawk it was once believed to be. Bioarchaeologist Andrew Nelson, from Canada ...
20:04, 02/08/2018
WASHINGTON—The Hope Diamond, a rare blue diamond that is one of the world’s most famous jewels, has had a complicated history, passing through the hands of monarchs and bankers and heiresses and ...
09:44, 26/07/2018
ATHENS—Greek archaeologists have discovered a virtually intact grave of an ancient noblewoman buried with her golden jewelry at a Roman burial monument in the island of Sikinos. Her name, according to ...
15:36, 24/07/2018
Ancient technology used by craftsmen 2,000 years ago to apply thin films of metal onto their statues surpassed modern standards for producing DVDs, solar cells, and electronic devices. It makes you wo ...
10:25, 20/07/2018
One of the most exciting parts of a renovation project is the thrill of what you might uncover. While home remodeling shows would lead you to believe there are sparkling pine floorboards underneath ev ...
14:18, 10/07/2018
More than a century ago, a device now known as the Antikythera mechanism was found near a Roman shipwreck from the 1st century B.C. It could calculate astronomical changes with precision. It has baffl ...
14:01, 07/07/2018
The oldest and largest pyramid in Egypt, the Great Pyramid in Giza, has a 100-foot-long void inside. Archaeologists first announced the possible existence of this void about two years ago, but only co ...
03:49, 02/07/2018
Göbekli Tepe in Turkey is a 12,000-year-old megalithic monument complex, the origins of which have stumped archaeologists since its discovery about 20 years ago. It has caused archaeologists to rethin ...
16:15, 25/06/2018
A new species of dinosaur has been discovered in Mexico by paleontologists at the acclaimed Desert Museum. The creature lived 85 million years ago, making it the oldest dinosaur to have inhabited the ...
17:25, 22/06/2018
Egypt is full of mystery and many believe that the conclusions we’ve made about the ancient Egyptian civilization are far from the truth. Here is a 1,200 ton unfinished obelisk that has everyone ...
15:16, 14/06/2018
Scientists have discovered what could be the oldest animal footprint fossils ever found. The tracks were found in southern China’s Yangtze Gorges and date back up to 551 million years ago. This is pot ...
07:58, 12/06/2018
A tiny sculpture depicting the likely head of a royal figure from more than 2,800 years ago was recently unearthed. The head, according to Fox News, might be of a king. “The color of the face is ...
05:56, 07/06/2018
PARIS—The 30 ft skeleton of a unidentified type of dinosaur, believed to be that of a new species, fetched more than $2.3 million at an auction staged on the first floor of the Eiffel Tower in Paris o ...
16:42, 04/09/2018
For many people coincidences are all good: if you wait long enough, you can probably find a positive outcome. Here we look at coincidences that from the beginning seem to promise a great outcome but t ...
16:41, 31/08/2018
Can plants make important life decisions? A new study by U.K. scientists suggests they can, showing that plants have cells that function like a “brain” to help them decide when to germinate. The scien ...
10:37, 23/08/2018
In the wee hours of the morning on July 28, 1976, the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century and the third greatest in recorded history shook Tangshan, China. Approximately one-fifth of the city per ...
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A new radio telescope in Canada recently captured a strange signal from deep space. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, or CHIME, is located in British Columbia and monitors for signal ...
13:17, 31/07/2018
Using a radar instrument on an orbiting spacecraft, scientists have spotted what they said on Wednesday appears to be a sizable salt-laden lake under ice on the southern polar plain of Mars, a body of ...
10:20, 28/07/2018
Xue-Mei was an active member of the Chinese Communist Party, her mind deeply rooted in Marxism. “I was a die-hard atheist,” she said, in a post on the Near-Death Experience Research Founda ...
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From a very young age, Purnima would fully describe the process for manufacturing incense, — something a girl her age and not in the incense business wouldn’t have any knowledge about that ...
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Ubiquitous throughout ancient philosophy is the idea that the body has a system of channels along which energy flows. This energy affects health and can exert power—it can be used to deal blows in mar ...
14:32, 06/07/2018
A 37-mile (60 km) crack appeared in the ground in Ethiopia in recent years, and scientists say it could be the location of the world’s next new ocean. Under the continent of Africa are two separ ...
16:29, 30/06/2018
A medical doctor from Taiwan had always considered himself very sensible and prudent in his work and everyday life. As he grew older, he began to treat his minor aches and pains with many safe and eff ...
14:02, 27/06/2018
The epic voyage of the Cassini spaceship might have ended nine months ago, but stunning images of its trek to Saturn are still being processed by NASA. A stunning composite image of Saturn’s icy moon ...
16:30, 21/06/2018
Babies are full of surprises, even when they are still in the mother’s womb. If you don’t believe this, check out the video. Lucy Bearley and Stuart Barrett are expecting their first child, according ...
15:52, 20/06/2018
A Japanese spacecraft has gotten its first clear view of Ryugu, an oddly-shaped asteroid that many say looks like a dango dumpling. Hayabusa2, the Japanese spacecraft, is set to arrive on the asteroid ...
06:47, 18/06/2018
Scientists say that they have found proof of water on the moon—by looking in the desert in northwest Africa. A mineral that requires the presence of water to form was discovered in a lunar meteorite b ...
08:52, 13/06/2018
Astronomers have discovered a peculiar neutron star hanging out by itself. The star, E0102, is located 200,000 light years from Earth. Neutron stars are the dense core of stars that have collapsed and ...
07:53, 12/06/2018
Two years ago, NASA made the announcement that the surface of Mars featured running water systems. This observation was based on the appearance of seasonal flows, called “recurrent slope lineae,” ...
18:07, 03/09/2018
People who spoke of thoughts influencing a person’s health were once ridiculed. But the discovery of the placebo effect helped change that. Now it’s commonly accepted that some such connec ...
14:22, 27/08/2018
Robert Jahn, who died at the age of 87 on Nov. 15, spent his life reuniting the head and the heart in modern science. Like some of the brightest minds of Western science, such as Albert Einstein, Isaa ...
16:06, 01/08/2018
BERLIN—A team of international scientists observing a star in the Milky Way have for the first time confirmed Einstein’s predictions of what happens to the motion of a star passing close to a su ...
17:13, 23/07/2018
Scandinavian mythology claims the Kraken swallowed up whales and devoured ships. It has been described as a huge version of an octopus or squid. Legends have even claimed the terrifying sea creature m ...
15:37, 21/07/2018
Stephanie Arnold was already a mother to two young girls, but when she became pregnant with her third child, she had a bad feeling. It wasn’t pregnancy jitters, it wasn’t fear of the unkno ...
10:43, 11/07/2018
Prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific journals and major scientific organizations, such as the American Psychological Association, stand as guards at the gates of Science. They decide what information ...
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When he was 19 years old, Jeffrey C. attempted suicide after finding out his girlfriend was cheating on him with his best friend. After he swallowed a lot of pills, his mother realized what had happen ...
07:51, 28/06/2018
Tricia Barker was depressed. She was 21 years old, in college studying English, unsure what career would follow, and generally feeling that life was hopeless and painful. She tried to take her own lif ...
16:45, 19/06/2018
Over the last 10 years, scientists have been observing bright infrared light and flares coming from the location of two colliding galaxies. In a newly published study, scientists say that from their m ...
08:41, 16/06/2018
Neuroscientist Greg Gage performed an experiment showing plants can count and “think” during a TED Talk published this month. This is just one piece in a larger puzzle starting to show tha ...
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Over the past 15 years or so, several giant gel balls have been found by divers off the coast of Norway. The balls, about 3 feet (1 meter) wide, remain a mystery to scientists. But the number of ball ...