Refugees in America: Quotas, Challenges, and Where Most of the Money Goes-
One of the best-preserved mummies in the world isn’t from Egypt or Peru but comes from Italy about 90 years ago. Rosalia Lombardo was a 2-year-old Italian girl who died of pneumonia. Her father, official Mario Lombardo, grieved her death and he went to a noted embalmer, Alfredo Salafia, in an attempt to preserve her, […] -
Sitting in still water like cryogenic alien brains, these slimy mysterious blobs aren’t something you’d expect to find outside of a special effects department, let alone in a city park. But even scientists who specialize in studying this bizarre life-form are surprised to learn they have found a home in the Stanley Park lagoon, in […] -
Archeologists in Norway have uncovered what they believe is a buried Viking boat with bones in it, leading them to believe it could be the remnants of a Viking boat grave. While working on another dig in the center of Trondheim, archeologists at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) noticed a mound of earth, and when […] -
Some two dozen minor tremors have hit Mount Rainier, the active volcano towering over the Seattle metro area, over the past week. The strongest of the quakes had a magnitude of 1.6, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN) run by the University of Washington and the University of Oregon. Earthquakes with a magnitude of […] -
Octopuses have been discovered building their own underwater city off the East Coast of Australia, proving that the mysterious creatures aren’t necessarily as reclusive as previously thought. Hours of footage from Go-Pro cameras revealed the creatures to be surprisingly social. These octopuses—aptly-named octopus tetricus, or gloomy octopus—sculpted their own “dens” from piles of shells left over from creatures they’d […] -
According to new studies, scientists have found sharks live longer than first thought. Scientists realized that previous methods of measuring the ages of shark species were faulty. Scientists would cut through the spines of the sharks and count the pairs of bands to measure age, Nature reported. They would measure age as if looking at […] -
A 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet was recently translated and might rewrite the history of math, suggesting that trigonometry may have been developed before the ancient Greeks. The researchers said the tablet proves that the Babylonians developed trigonometry some 1,500 years prior to the Greeks. The tablet, called Plimpton 322, was found in Southern Iraq around the […]
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Researchers have recently discovered that bacteria aboard the International Space Station (ISS) show a “shape-shifting” behavior. In a recent study, published in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers took cultured E. coli bacteria and exposed them to different concentrations of a common antibiotic, gentamicin sulfate, that is deadly to E. coli on Earth. What they observed is […] -
U.S. space agency NASA received the final signal from its Cassini spacecraft, which ended a groundbreaking 13-year Saturn mission on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the planet’s atmosphere, transmitting data until the final moment. Cassini, the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn, ended its mission at 7:55 a.m. EDT, shortly after it lost contact with Earth as […] -
A teenage girl who suffered from “Rapunzel syndrome,” an extremely rare intestinal condition that results from ingesting hair, has died after eating her own hair. It was reported this week on LincolnshireLive.com. Jasmine Beever, of Skegness in the United Kingdom, was hospitalized on Sept. 7. Jasmine suffered from peritonitis, where the thin membrane that covers […] -
Hurricanes tear apart buildings and destroy human lives, so naturally, people focus on the impact on populated areas. But there is an ecological toll to these devastating storms that sometimes gets overlooked. Hurricane Irma stripped the Caribbean of an entire color, turning lush green landscapes into dreary brown. A series of before and […] -
Scientists assumed a few things about a Viking skeleton they excavated in the 1800s. The skeleton was buried with two horses, an ax, a sword, a spear, a battle knife, and shields, so they assumed the skeleton belonged to a warrior. A board game lay in the skeleton’s lap, so they assumed the man was […] -
Part of a lost Roman city was discovered underwater, off the coast of Tunisia. Researchers hypothesized that part of the ancient city known as Neapolis was submerged in an ancient tsunami, 1,700 years ago. A team from the Tunisian National Heritage Institute and the University of Sassari in Italy were put together to find Neapolis, […] -
Biotech company Oxitec announced on Sept. 5 that it has started releasing genetically modified (GM) moths in Geneva, New York. Globally, only two types of GM insects have ever been released. GM mosquitoes have been released in Brazil, Panama, the Cayman Islands, and Malaysia. And a GM pink bollworm was briefly released about 10 years […] -
Asian carp videos have gone viral in recent years, showing the invasive fish springing from the water en masse. The video was captured several years ago near the Spoon River in Illinois, showing the fish jumping from the water as a boat passes by. It may be a humorous scene for some, but to federal […] -
The so-called amazing monstrous whirpool of Dviete, Latvia, has captured the attention of tens of millions over the past several years. It’s a pretty mesmerizing scene, as the whirpool sucks everything down. Specifically, it was captured near the banks of the Daugava River. “Swallowing everything dragged toward its direction,” reads the description from Janis […] -
Longtime space advocate Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be the next administrator of NASA. Bridenstine is known for his strong support for a new manned mission to the Moon and for his belief that the United States needs to challenge China’s ever-expanding presence in space. The nomination of […] -
A mother of four said she underwent two operations after she was bitten by a spider while she was in the bathroom. Lauren Boddy, 27, of England, said she was using the bathroom when she spotted a red mark on her leg. It didn’t hurt much on the first day. But on the second day, […] -
Human footprints were found imprinted an ancient seashore fossilized beneath the Greek Island of Crete. The find threatens to rewrite what all scientists currently know about human development. The finding comes after other recent European finds that question whether Africa indeed hosted the earliest humans. The Crete fossil is 5.7 million years old. The finding […] -
The world faces water problems on a scale never before experienced in history. The global population is growing as water resources are shrinking. The world’s leading water experts and officials met in Stockholm from Aug. 27 to Sept. 1 for the annual World Water Week. The challenges—and solutions—they discussed included how to guarantee the human […]
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