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Virgin Birth Is Way More Common In Animals Than Scientists Thought
Two cases of virgin birth have been observed in wild snakes, the first time the phenomenon has ever been recorded among vertebrates living in their natural habitat. Genetic analysis of the litters...
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Death Valley Is The Hottest Place On Earth
El Azizia, Libya, no longer holds the title for "world's hottest temperature." Today, that record passes to Death Valley, Calif. No, a heat wave didn't pass through the notoriously baking area...
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New Species Of Monkey With Giant Blue Backsides Found In The African Forest
A shy, brightly colored monkey species has been found living in the lush rainforests at the heart of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a find that utterly surprised the researchers who came upon it....
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10 New Mammals Discovered In The Last Decade
A new species of monkey has been identified in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The lesula, or Cercopithecus lomamiensis, described as shy and quiet, has excited conservationists because the...
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What Your Face Looks Like Depends On These Five Genes
Researchers have identified five of the genes that shape a person's face, work that could help scientists better understand facial abnormalities like cleft palate and someday might even help forensic...
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Naked Monk Found In German Forest Was Tripping On Berries
Hallucinogenic berries, not religious experience, likely caused the strange behavior of a scraped-up monk who was discovered stumbling naked through a German forest last Thursday (Sept. 6), according...
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Fashion Designer Reveals Her Daily Diet
Catherine Teatum, co-founder of the British fashion label Teatum Jones, reveals her daily diet. 7am I start every day with a handful of Brazil nuts. I've not been ill since Christmas and reckon...
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Killer Whales Are Total Mama's Boys
Menopause is a rare phenomenon in the animal world. Besides humans, killer whales are among the few species whose females lose their ability to reproduce well before the end of their natural life...
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There Are Tons Of Alien Planets Out There That Could Harbor Life
Life may be able to survive on a broader set of alien worlds than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests. Researchers have created a new online tool called the "Habitable Zone Gallery," which...
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Dig Searching For Mona Lisa Produces A Body
Archaeologists digging for the remains of the real-life Mona Lisa have found a female skeleton, but they say it doesn't belong to the mysterious Florentine noblewoman, according to news reports. The...
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The Western US Thought This Missile Contrail Was A UFO
A spectacular U.S. Army missile test in New Mexico Thursday (Sept. 13) lit up the predawn sky over the southwestern United States, triggering a flood of frantic UFO reports and hundreds of calls to...
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Some Metal Cables Were Just Named A Historic Landmark
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. -- A rocky trail and hundreds of feet of twisted metal cables might not immediately conjure an image of something worthy of historical preservation. But when the trail...
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11 TV And Movie Clichés That Are Scientifically Impossible
How many movies or TV shows have you seen where a young sylph in a filmy nightgown runs through a forest in high heels to escape a bad guy? She always trips and falls down. If this makes you groan and...
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Sleeping Late On The Weekend Makes You MORE Tired On Monday
There's a biological reason why we can still feel tired during the week even after a good weekend lie-in. It’s 3.21am on Saturday. The digits on the alarm clock cast an acid-green glow over the room,...
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Expert Predicts That Arctic Sea Ice Will Disappear Within Four Years
One of the world's leading ice experts has predicted the final collapse of Arctic sea ice in summer months within four years. In what he calls a "global disaster" now unfolding in northern latitudes...
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We Still Don't Know What The Smallest Thing In The Universe Is
The answer to the enduring question of the smallest thing in the universe has evolved along with humanity. People once thought grains of sand were the building blocks of what we see around us. Then...
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Meet The Man Who Found The Titanic
By his own admission, Bob Ballard is a heretic. "If I were in Tunisia, I'd be toast," he said. He likes to disprove conventional wisdom, and throw out textbooks (metaphorically speaking). In graduate...
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The Link Between Computer Hackers And Asperger's Syndrome Is A Myth
Are computer hackers more likely to be on the autistic spectrum than other people? Bernadette Schell, a researcher at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, has spent 10 years surveying...
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WolframAlpha Revealed Some Scary Insights About My Facebook Profile
YOUR correspondent was shocked to learn that 34 percent of his Facebook friends are married. Still in his 20s, he does not want to contemplate settling down quite yet. Knowing that 64 percent of his...
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We're Wasting Precious Helium On Balloons
Helium is being squandered on childrens’ party balloons when it should be stockpiled for use in life-saving equipment, an academic has claimed. Using the lighter-than-air gas to pump up foil balloons...
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