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More than 40,000 years ago, the landscape of southwestern Australia was replete with giant kangaroos. One of these extinct kangaroos, known as a short-faced kangaroo, boasted a single-toed clawed foot…
Suicide is a rising problem in the United States, especially among farmers. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Americans who work in farming, ranching…
A taxi driver had to sprint to freedom from his cab moments after it was swallowed up by an enormous sinkhole. The cabbie, named Guo, ran from his car after…
A fifty-year-old hypothesis predicting the existence of bodies dubbed Generic Objects of Dark Energy (GEODEs) is getting a second look in light of a proposed correction to assumptions we use…
The region at the centre of our galaxy is still full of mysteries, but astronomers have just found a clue to its past: Huge, radio-emitting bubbles, extending 700 light-years either…
On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the most powerful earthquake in the nation’s history – a magnitude 9 temblor that triggered a tsunami with waves up to 133…
Astronomers may have spotted the second object ever to visit our Solar System from another star system. The object may even fly near Mars later this year, though it’s still…
It’s not as if the world needed another symbol for the climate crisis, but now Sweden has one all to itself. After years of rising temperatures and back-to-back summer heatwaves,…
In the story of our species, Africa is known as the cradle of humanity. Somewhere on this vast continent, hundreds of thousands of years ago, a group of early humans…
In a finding that demonstrates just how amazingly flexible the human brain can be, a new study of two foot painters has revealed that their brains are now mapping their…
There’s a lost continent hidden below southern Europe. And researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of it yet. Greater Adria existed 140 million years ago, before sliding beneath what…
It has been 18 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, and more than 2,000 people have died of an illness related to the terrorist attacks. It is expected that by…
On Monday, Rhode Island health officials reported that a resident had died after contracting the Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE) virus. The death marks the third U.S. fatality linked to EEE…
Arctic tours ship MS MALMO with 16 passengers on board got stuck in ice on Sep 3 off Longyearbyen, Svalbard Archipelago, halfway between Norway and North Pole. The ship is…
Self-proclaimed alien life analyst Scott Waring made the bizarrely claims about the “alien artwork” on his etdatabase.com blog. He said: “In Jenner crater I have found something really extraordinary: an…
“There is infinite hope,” Kafka tells us, “only not for us.” This is a fittingly mystical epigram from a writer whose characters strive for ostensibly reachable goals and, tragically or…
Michael Tooley is an American professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, US, and a reluctant atheist. Dr Tooley appeared on Amazon Prime’s “Closer To Truth” series, where he…
Have you ever wondered what the electromangetic fields (EMFs) that surround virtually every person carrying a mobile device with WiFi or data capability look like? Well, look at these baffling…
A Tokyo-based cashier allegedly stole credit card information from 1,300 customers. According to police, he used only his brain to take the information. Yusuke Taniguchi, 34, was arrested Thursday when…
In the atmosphere of an exoplanet just 111 light-years away, astronomers have just made a highly exciting discovery: they’ve detected water. As much as 50 percent of the atmosphere of…
During the age of the dinosaurs, the skies of North America were home to some of the largest flying animals the world has ever seen. New research now suggests there…
The tragic events of the morning of September 11, 2001, saw the coordination of four terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda, masterminded by Osama bin Laden. Just shy…
Friday 13th falls again this week, a portentous period commonly associated with bad luck. Two Friday 13ths arrive this year: September 13 presents the first one, while the second arrives…
More than a million tonnes of contaminated water lies in storage at Fukushima. But the power company says it will run out of space by 2022, forcing Japan to dump…
All the comets in our Solar System may share the same origin story – and it could help explain how life on Earth came to exist. A team of American…
Hurricane Dorian devastated the Bahamas, flooded parts of the US East Coast and submerged islands in Canada. The treasure trove of ocean artifacts washing up on the beach is one…
Almost a third of American adults don’t have the math skills necessary to make effective decisions about their health and finances. These 73 million people can count, sort and do…
Mr Hitchens was an English-American academic, who was the author and editor of more than 30 books. A lifelong atheist, Mr Hitchens became a controversial figure for his confrontational style…