Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Echoing similar thoughts from Dr. Anthony Fauci, a group of Chinese scientists said they believe the novel coronavirus is likely to return seasonally, just like the flu. “This is very likely to be an epidemic that co-exists with humans for a long time, becomes ...
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Jose Canseco worried Bigfoot or aliens can 'get coronavirus'
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. More than a year after former big leaguer Jose Canseco said he was looking for Bigfoot and UFOs, the eccentric slugger is worried they might have contracted coronavirus. “Can Bigfoot or aliens get Coronavirus I need to know because I have had contact with ...
Read More »Massive Iron Age coin hoard worth $13M sets Guinness World Record
A giant discovery of nearly 70,000 coins from the Iron Age has set a Guinness World Record for being the largest of its kind discovered in the British Isles. Discovered in January 2012, the collection of 69,347 coins was found in Jersey by metal detector enthusiasts Reg Mead and Richard Miles, British news agency SWNS reports. The hoard is estimated to ...
Read More »Human skulls made into pots, drinking cups 4,000 years ago linked to 'human cannibalism,' study says
Human skulls were used as recently as the Bronze Age to make pots and drinking cups, startling new research shows. The study notes that the skulls were cleaned and then fashioned into drinkware, complete with decorations and war trophies. It’s unknown whether they were actually used, but researchers believe there may have been a need to extract the brain for nutritional ...
Read More »100-million-year-old slime mold found perfectly preserved in amber
Researchers have discovered a 100-million-year-old slime mold and a lizard leg perfectly preserved in amber from a tree in Myanmar, a find described as “unique.” Also known as myxomycetes, these tiny slime molds are single-celled organisms that largely live in soil or rotting wood, feasting on bacteria. Occasionally, they can join together “to form complex, beautiful and delicate fruiting bodies, ...
Read More »Segway shows off 'Jurassic World'-inspired 'stroller'
It’s transportation 65 million years in the making. Segway-Ninebot, a company best known for its namesake two-wheeled personal transporter, is taking inspiration from the movies with its latest creation, the S-Pod transporting pod, based off the gyrosphere from “Jurassic World.” The transporter resembles a giant stroller. The company describes the S-Pod as a “first-class smart transporting pod” that can be ...
Read More »3,000-year-old tablet describing Babylonian Noah's Ark tale could be 'earliest ever example of fake news,' scholar says
A scholar at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. has suggested that the “earliest ever example of fake news” exists in a 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet that describes the story of Noah and the Ark, widely believed to be the inspiration for the Biblical story. Researcher Martin Worthington notes that nine lines in the clay tablets that tell the story ...
Read More »'Warm Jupiter' exoplanet found
Researchers have discovered exoplanets that have been referred to as “hot Jupiters” before, but now they’ve found a “warm Jupiter” deep in space. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has spotted a new planet known as TOI-677 b, according to a study that can be read on the arXiv repository. Believed to be 23 times larger than Jupiter, TOI-677 b orbits its ...
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