Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there: a constituent…
Solar Dynamics Observatory returns first images
Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has provided an astonishing new vista on our turbulent star. The first public release of images…
Hard-to-See Sea Creatures Revealed
This leggy creature may look like an octopus, but it’s actually an immature, or larval, tube anemone (picture of an…
New Species Discovered in Borneo
A lungless frog (pictured above), a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new…
Roman-Style Mummy, Tombs Found
“Dressed” in Roman robes, a 2,000-year-old coffin stares back from a rare Egyptian grave in the Bahariya Oasis, about 225…
First Green Supersonic Jet Launches on Earth Day
When the Navy F/A-18 jet called the Green Hornet takes off over the Chesapeake Bay on Earth Day, it will…
11-Million-Year-Old Primate Discovered
A garbage dump in Catalonia, Spain, has just yielded an eleven-million-year-old new primate, according to the science news service SINC.…
Dreams ‘can help with learning’
HTML clipboard Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory – as long as you dream,…
Violin Prodigy Helps Rebuild Haitian School
Brianna Kahane sounds like your typical second grader – that is, until you put a violin in her hands. Brianna…
Millionaire gives away fortune that made him miserable
Austrian millionaire Karl Rabeder is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune after realising his riches were making…