Divers also found bronze and marble statues, including of horses. The 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck that carried the Antikythera Mechanism — a precise mechanical model of the sun, moon and planets — is giving up new treasures, including a marble head thought to depict the Greek and Roman demigod Hercules.Continue Reading
For the last few weeks, the imminent release of a U.S. intelligence report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) had stirred excitement across the United States. So it’s not surprising to find that most Americans believe in intelligent life inhabiting other worlds, according to a survey conducted before the report wasContinue Reading
In the future, your vanilla ice cream may be made from plastic bottles. In the future, your vanilla ice cream may be made from plastic bottles. Scientists have figured out a way to convert plastic waste into vanilla flavoring with genetically engineered bacteria, according to a new study. Vanillin, theContinue Reading
The paradox says that on average, your friends have more friends than you do. Your friends are on average more popular than you are, according to a phenomenon known as the “friendship paradox.” Now, a group of mathematicians has come up with a new theory that takes the friendship paradoxContinue Reading
After a months-long investigation, the Pentagon is poised to produce a report addressing sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) — more commonly known as “unidentified flying objects,” or UFOs. But don’t expect a big reveal about secret alien technology and extraterrestrial spaceships. The aim of the report is to establishContinue Reading
The film allegedly shows the autopsy of an extraterrestrial that crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico. A picture is worth a thousand words, but is a single frame of 16-mm film worth $1 million? That’s the opening bid for a negative frame of black-and-white movie footage from 1947, allegedly showing anContinue Reading
Thousands of animals worldwide (not just giraffes) are injured by lightning each year. Lightning recently killed two giraffes in South Africa; one of the giraffes — a 5-year-old female — had a fractured skull and a broken ossicone (giraffes’ knoblike horns), indicating that she died after a lightning strike directlyContinue Reading
Bottoms up (and good luck keeping it down). Gin brewed with ants. Poop wine. Whale testicle beer flavored with the smoked dung of Icelandic sheep. This beverage collection sounds like a menu at the world’s worst Happy Hour, but it’s actually part of a new exhibit at the aptly namedContinue Reading
The elephants were stressed after a death in the herd. A zoo in Poland plans to test cannabidiol — also known as CBD, a chemical found in cannabis — on its elephants, for stress relief. According to the BCC, the Warsaw Zoo’s decision follows the March death of Erna, theContinue Reading
“Why did the fox steal my shoes?” sounds like the start of a brain-teasing riddle or an annoyingly viral song. But for people in Berlin, it was an existential question spurred by the knowledge that a local fox was the culprit behind a string of shoe thefts. About two weeksContinue Reading
