2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (235+ words) A surge in insect attacks is already underway, and mild winters are the culprit. “The forests that exist today aren’t going to be ones existing in 2040,” University of British Columbia’s senior author Jonathan Davies said in a press statement. “The…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (242+ words) He bought the taxidermied head at an antique store for $70. It just sold for $85,000. “It was quite a shock to discover we were sitting on something so special,” Andrew Stowe, an auctioneer and valuer at Auctioneum who eventually sold the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (378+ words) The statue’s unique style hints at a vanished empire. “It is very rare to find such monumental sculpture of this period anywhere in the Mediterranean, and this exceptionally well-preserved, unique monument casts important new light on the major arts of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (335+ words) What happened on Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was nothing short of miraculous. Panic took hold of the passengers and crew as Captain Bob Schornstheimer and first officer Mimi Tompkins realized they were suddenly losing air pressure. Stewardess Michelle Honda was slammed…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (244+ words) Popular Mechanics Antarctica’s Strange Fossilized Egg A mysterious fossil from Antarctica has been identified as the largest soft-shelled egg ever discovered—and the second-largest known egg of any kind. A Record-Breaking Ancient Egg About 68 million years ago, near the end…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (172+ words) X(2370) has long been a leading candidate for a “glueball”—a hypothetical particle made almost entirely of gluons. “The radiative decay of the J/ψ meson is a gluon-rich process and is therefore regarded as an ideal place for searching…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (315+ words) Italy is experiencing one of the hottest summers on record, and hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano Reggiano wheels can’t handle the heat. As climate change exacerbates extreme weather around the world, no place is harder-hit than Europe this summer. France…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (329+ words) Nothing closes a watering hole like a dead body. Archaeologists discovered two strikingly different types of offerings dropped into a well dug in the early fifth century B.C.E. by the Etruscan people of northern Italy. The two rituals stand in stark…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (271+ words) Centuries of history are buried beneath one desert site. Excavations surrounding an ancient temple in eastern Egypt may turn up much more than a single structure—they may reveal the lost city of Mesn. As teams from the Egyptian Ministry…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (224+ words) In 1948, a body found at Somerton Park near Adelaide sparked one of the strangest cold cases in Australian history. But one piece of evidence transformed this perplexing John Doe—who eventually came to be known simply as the “Somerton Man…...