Late last month astronomers at the California Institute of Technology announced the discovery of four new extrasolar planets, two each…
Surfer Saves Beached Great White Shark
If you were a surfer — that is, someone whose hobby is dressing in black, going in the water, and…
Myanmar creates world’s largest tiger reserve
Myanmar has announced that Hukaung Valley Tiger Reserve will be nearly tripled in size, making the protected area the largest…
Bus Straddles Road, Drives Above Cars
China is all about the future of transportation. High-speed trains criss cross the countryside, sending people whizzing from Shanghai to…
U.S. billionaires pledge fortunes to charity
Dozens of U.S. billionaires pledged on Wednesday to give at least half their fortunes to charity as part of a…
Size isn’t everything
OVERSIZED brains are to humans what trunks are to elephants and elaborate tail feathers are to peacocks – our defining…
Serve as a full-time surrogate mother
Fawzia al-Thiab stands surrounded by five children in their kitchen. This wouldn’t be an extraordinary picture in Syria, but these…
GM plants ‘established in the wild’
Researchers in the US have found new evidence that genetically modified crop plants can survive and thrive in the wild,…
Mars site may hold ‘buried life’
Researchers have identified rocks that they say could contain the fossilised remains of life on early Mars. The team made…
Why Do Astronauts Experience God?
In February, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell experienced the little understood phenomenon sometimes called the “Overview Effectâ€. He describes…