Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events Edwin Aguilar replaces siding during weatherization work on a home in Grafton, Neb., on Aug. 4, 2009. Among dozens of federal programs proposed for elimination in the Trump administration's newly revealed budget proposal is the federal Weatherization Assistance Program , or WAP, a grant program housed under the Department of Energy that helps states improve the energy efficiency of the homes of low-income families.
Mysterious signals from deep space called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology, according to a new study. The study suspects these FRB might be leakage from extremely technologically advanced aliens using planet-sized transmitters to power interstellar probes in distant galaxies.
After studying Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has finally given us a close-up view of its small moon Pan. And it shows how strange the Saturn moon is.
Since their discovery in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by the world's largest radio telescopes - and their origin remains unknown. Astronomers know almost nothing about them other than that they appear to occur in very remote galaxies billions of light years away.
Some pulsars and neutron stars could be formed of an exotic material unlike that found in normal stars. A new study suggests a way to find these strange quark objects.
Many of you who are experienced amateur astronomers know intimately Burnham's Celestial Handbook , the observing guide originally written in the 1960s by the curious astronomer Robert Burnham, Jr. The Handbook is still a mainstay of the libraries of many observers, a hodgepodge of observing data, tales and stories, photographs, poetry, and ephemera that introduced a whole generation to many deep-sky objects. It is still in heavy use by some although much of the data was outdated even when the book was published in the 60s, let alone for the Dover Publications update in the 1970s.
... us of a simple fact about life on Earth: You can't take any of it for granted. Here is the thing: It is kind of weird that we live on a planet that has almost equal amounts of open ocean and dry land. Every planet will have some degree of bumps on ...
It is late and you're craving food. Regular fried chicken just won't do. However, Kentucky Fried Chicken is a different story.
... University in Australia, created the images alongside graphic artist Steve Grice. In a stunning glimpse at the weird and wonderful shapes, sizes and colours of the creatures, their illustrations and interactive research, published on Sketchfab , ...
The colors and contours indicate surface brightness, and the red arrows show its estimated size. The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases? Researchers led by Zheng Cai, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have discovered an "enormous Lyman-alpha nebula," or ELAN, only the third of these vast cosmic structures ever seen.
Visitors to Central Park's Conservatory Garden pass a flowering rhododendron, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, in New York. Crocuses, cherry trees, magnolia trees are blooming several weeks early because of an unusually warm February.
There are two kinds of people in the world - those who ignore food expiration dates and those who don't. You can slice off a piece of mold from that block of cheese, but that doesn't mean you should.
In February of 1967, German biologist Hannes Laven hiked to a village 16 miles north of Yangon, Myanmar. He carried with him 100 mosquitoes from Fresno, California - 50 males that had been infected with a bacteria called Wolbachia , and 50 females that had not.
In February of 1967, German biologist Hannes Laven hiked to a village 16 miles north of Yangon, Myanmar. He carried with him 100 mosquitoes from Fresno, California - 50 males that had been infected with a bacteria called Wolbachia , and 50 females that had not.
In a world of Russian cyber attacks, post-truth politics and crumbling geopolitical relations, the arrival of the terrifying Titan-XIII should allay all our fears If the tumultuous events of the past year have left you fearing that a global apocalypse is imminent, then this video will do little to ease your concerns. For scientists, in their infinite wisdom, appear to have decided now would be a good time to unleash the sentinels from the Matrix into the real world.
Researchers first showed them what to do by using a pretend bee - a piece of striped yellow and black plastic attached to a stick. Playing one at a time, they had to push or pull the ball into a hole in the middle of the playing surface to get the reward.
The Roman emperor Probus does not receive much attention in the annals of the Roman Empire but he should be a more recognised figure for those interested in wine because of his dedication to the spread of viticulture. Viticulture and winemaking had always followed in the wake of Rome's legions as the empire expanded, especially in the west where its practice was more limited among the Celtic and Iberian tribes of the late Iron Age.
A host of rare species have been discovered after a survey of a conservation estate which environmentalists described as a "lost world". A host of rare species have been discovered after a survey of a conservation estate which environmentalists described as a "lost world".
... urgency preexisting and superseding any policy-driven basis for membership. This is why group belief is free to be so weird. We overlook the hypocrisies and the shortcomings within our own coalition out of a desire to protect ourselves from our ...
Seven new species of frog -- some of the smallest in the world -- were found after five years of searching in the Western Ghats, a mountain range in Southwestern India known to be a biodiversity hotspot. They might have just been discovered but their future is already in doubt, according to Professor SD Biju from the University of Delhi, who led the study.
Armchair oceanographers, take note: This week, the research ship Okeanos Explorer will send a remotely operated vehicle into the depths of the Pacific Ocean, seeking out exotic sea animals like the "walking" fish called a sea toad and other curiosities. And, you can have a front-row seat.
Lord of the stunning self-portrait! Photographer dresses up as Gandalf for amazing shots at New Zealand's beautiful Lord Of The Rings filming locations Nervous fliers look away! With runways on cliff edges and snow covered peaks, these really are the world's most TERRIFYING airport landings Don't let your valuables fly away! How hand luggage put in the hold on jam-packed flights might not be covered by your travel insurance Pea plant pilgrims: Tracing the strange history of the 19th Century Czech friar who founded modern genetics in his garden Cycle from Bangkok to Saigon? Let's give it a Thai! Crossing three countries in a fortnight on two wheels Sea ice around Antarctica hits record low as NASA captures the moment massive iceberg the size of Manhattan breaks away from giant glacier Heartbreaking moment a grieving widow meets her hero Army vet husband's coffin on the airport tarmac - ... (more)
Lord of the stunning self-portrait! Photographer dresses up as Gandalf for amazing shots at New Zealand's beautiful Lord Of The Rings filming locations Nervous fliers look away! With runways on cliff edges and snow covered peaks, these really are the world's most TERRIFYING airport landings Don't let your valuables fly away! How hand luggage put in the hold on jam-packed flights might not be covered by your travel insurance Pea plant pilgrims: Tracing the strange history of the 19th Century Czech friar who founded modern genetics in his garden Cycle from Bangkok to Saigon? Let's give it a Thai! Crossing three countries in a fortnight on two wheels Sea ice around Antarctica hits record low as NASA captures the moment massive iceberg the size of Manhattan breaks away from giant glacier Heartbreaking moment a grieving widow meets her hero Army vet husband's coffin on the airport tarmac - ... (more)
When scientists want to know how an animal walks or runs - from stumpy Chihuahua Dogs to huge African Elephants - they use a treadmill. Scientists have pondered how desert ants find their way home for decades, but without knowing how the tiny critters walk they have been left stumped.
"You hang your clothes and before you know it, they become black. You step on your floor, everywhere is black."
A restaurant in Toyko is serving up the Thai delicacy to loved-up couples who want to try something new Loved-up customers are being offered a rather unique Valentine's Day menu - cocktails and cakes served up with added dead insects. Diners were given the option of chowing down on bug carcasses or innards, that had been mixed into their alcoholic drinks or sweet desserts.
If you have hypochondriac tendencies, you should stop reading right now. If you're still reading, think back to the last time you had a bad headache.
After it's revealed in a UK court that a man has an unusual preference for being doused in cement - MirrorOnline delves into a world populated by millions of pervy sex-perimenters The weird and wonderful world of bizarre sex fetishes has hit the headlines after it was revealed in a Glasgow Court that a man had a preference for being doused in cement. John Steven turned up at a flat in Renfrewshire, Scotland, amid claims he thought the substance would be poured over him.
U.S. Senator Luther Strange released a statement on Friday on receiving his committee assignments for Congress and being sworn into the U.S. Senate. "It was a great privilege to be sworn-in to the United States Senate yesterday," said Senator Strange.
U.S. Senator Luther Strange released a statement on Friday on receiving his committee assignments for Congress and being sworn into the U.S. Senate. "It was a great privilege to be sworn-in to the United States Senate yesterday," said Senator Strange.
Alabama farmers today welcomed news that U.S. Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., will serve on the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee. "Agriculture is Alabama's number one industry, and it is exciting to have a senator on the Ag Committee," said Alabama Farmers Federation National Affairs Director Mitt Walker.
The 69-year-old had tried everything to get rid of the creepy crawly, but after toothpicks and tweezers failed, he resorted to pesticide. His ear became more and more swollen from the pesticide and irritation that he finally gave in and visited a hospital.
The woman knew after waking up suddenly in the middle of the night that the pain in her head -- which had an itchy, scratchy feel to it -- couldn't be normal. Boy was she ever right.
In what can be called the most bizarre surgery, doctors in Chennai successfully removed a cockroach from a woman's skull and guess what, it was alive. According to a report published in The New Indian Express, 42-year-old Selvi felt a weird sensation around her nose and eyes at night when she asked her son-in-law to take her to the nearby clinic who then asked her to go to a government hospital where the cockroach was finally taken out.
... years ago may be the earliest-known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that eventually led to humans. It was a weird-looking beastie with a bag-like body and, for its size, a really big mouth. University of Cambridge paleontologist Simon Conway ...
Researchers with the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto detailed the 500-million-year-old critter for the first time in a study that is to be published Tuesday in the journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The bizarre creature, no bigger than a thumb, lived under water in a spot that is today a shale-strewn mountain ridge in British Columbia's Yoho National Park.
The Ovatiovermis is shown in a handout photo from the Royal Ontario Museum. Researchers with the Royal Ontario Museum have for the first time identified an 18-limbed worm that lived some 500 million years ago.
Scientists on Monday said a tiny marine creature from China that wriggled in the seabed mud about 540 million years ago may be the earliest-known animal in the lengthy evolutionary path that eventually led to humans. It was a weird-looking beastie with a bag-like body and, for its size, a really big mouth.
An Arizona woman got quite the surprise when she tried to change the battery in a hallway smoke detector at her new Scottsdale home a couple of nights ago. The device was covered in honey.
But a self-styled astronomer has accused the space agency of covering up the truth that WF9 will hit us directly. Dr Dyomin Damir Zakharovich has warned the impact could wipe out a city if it strikes land or cause a devastating tsunami if it lands in the sea.
This insect head, that researchers thought almost resembled the way aliens are portrayed, was so unusual it required the extinct insect to be placed in an entirely new scientific order. Even to an untrained eye, the 100-million-year-old insect that American entomologists are showing off this week looks a bit strange.
This insect head, that researchers thought almost resembled the way aliens are portrayed, was so unusual it required the extinct insect to be placed in an entirely new scientific order. Even to an untrained eye, the 100-million-year-old insect that American entomologists are showing off this week looks a bit strange.
The Bronx Zoo is offering people the chance to name one of its Madagascar hissing cockroaches in honor of someone for Valentine's Day. The zoo in New York City started offering the name-a-roach program in 2011 as a fun way to fundraise.
Every so often, we hear about a strange radio signal winging its way Earthward from the cold, lifeless depths of outer space. Suddenly, bored news personnel around the world come alive and begin churning out sensational stories with lurid headlines promising that this is really it - our first contact with alien minds.
Archaeologists were initially baffled when the strange shaped object was excavated in the 1760s from the ruins of the Villa dei Papiri, a grand country house in the Roman town of Herculaneum. Now the mystery of its purpose have been solved - and researchers were stunned to find the object was a sundial.
It began last week, when officers with the Dodge County Sheriff's Office stumbled upon a downright bizarre sight on a rural highway roughly 60 miles west of Milwaukee. The blacktop almost glowed in the dark - a shimmery, oddly beautiful red.
A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President Donald Trump, saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who discovered it while dissecting moths and noticing that three specimens had a distinct wing pattern and unique DNA profile, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.
When threatened or at rest, the hermit crab caterpillar, seen here head-on, retreats into its camouflage leaf case for protection. A caterpillar that was recently discovered in Peru exhibits a behavior previously unknown in caterpillars.
... floating past the star, obscuring the starlight at unpredictable intervals. The star's light curve was so inexplicably weird that the hypothesis seemed worth a check. But when astronomers searched for the optical or radio signatures of an advanced ...
Lloyd Cunniff tells the Great Falls Tribune it appeared the thieves used semitrailers to steal about 190,000 bees between Monday night and Tuesday morning in Yuba City, California. He said he was storing the bees on a fellow beekeeper's property before moving them to Fresno, where he had a contract to pollinate almond trees.
A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump , saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who discovered it while dissecting moths and noticing that three specimens had a distinct wing pattern and unique DNA profile, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.
Scientists in California have named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump , saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The Sacramento Bee reports that a report by researchers at the University of California , Davis, on the new species became available Tuesday.
In this Jan. 13, 2017, photo, Vince Pappas, owner of Stone Steel Corporation, poses for a photo in his warehouse in Baltimore. Small businesses can expect some high-profile Obama administration regulations to be scrapped after Donald Trump takes office, with rules affecting overtime, sick leave and the environment among those likely to be scrapped.
Venus is known both as the " planet of love " and the Earth's "evil twin". And although research suggests its environment is more hellish than romantic , there's actually a lot we don't know about our celestial neighbour.
CONVERGENT evolution-the arrival, independently, by different species at the same answer to a question posed by nature-is a topic of great interest to biologists. One aspect of the phenomenon which has not yet been much looked at, however, is its underlying genetics.
In this Jan. 11, 2017, photo provided by Sherman Hiatt, people work to put out a wildfire triggered when a pile of chicken manure caught fire in a barn near Charleston, Ark. In this Jan. 11, 2017, photo provided by Sherman Hiatt, people work to put out a wildfire triggered when a pile of chicken manure caught fire in a barn near Charleston, Ark.
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Xiang-Xi Michael Xu, Ph.D., who is also a professor of cell biology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, discovered Dab2 more than 20 years ago and has been studying its relationship to cancer ever since. But now he's found that Dab2 has been living a secret life all along - one that could have public health implications for fighting obesity.
Conspiracy theorists accused the airline of being involved with chemtrails, a claim dismissed by the Bureau of Meteorology. Picture: Instagram/@theonlyilya A spectacular cloud formation captured during a flight over the Great Australian Bight has delighted weather enthusiasts and enraged conspiracy theorists.
Sometimes proteins do a lot more than we expect. Dab2, for example, has long been linked to cancer.
In case that some of you are worried about Trump's radical environmental science policy appointments, relax. Let's consider how bad they really could be .
A strange burst of radio waves that has puzzled researchers for years has finally been traced to its source, answering one question but generating many, many more. The discovery was made my scientists at Cornell University along with astronomers from around the world.
A strange burst of radio waves that has puzzled researchers for years has finally been traced to its source, answering one question but generating many, many more. The discovery was made my scientists at Cornell University along with astronomers from around the world.
... hair. From garden variety at-home solutions to downright creepy treatments (leech therapy, anyone?), this round-up of weird beauty secrets proves that celebrities are definitely not just like us. Apparently olive oil isn't just for salads in ...
Something as random as the length of a song can mean misjudging the time it will take to do something. According to a study in the J of Experimental Psychology, people also base the time they think they will need to do something on how long it took them to do it before.
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Ian Leitch previously pictured beside a reconstruction of a 5000 years old bronze age burial at an archaeology exhibition at Northside Shopping Centre. (2903PG20)
Trillions of insects buzz and flutter across southern England each year in secret migrations that move the biomass equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer, scientists have revealed. Trillions of insects buzz and flutter across southern England each year in secret migrations that move the biomass equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer, scientists have revealed Trillions of insects buzz and flutter across southern England each year in secret migrations that move the biomass equivalent of 20,000 flying reindeer, scientists have revealed.
The 154 million-year-old limusaurus had tiny, sharp teeth as a hatchling that it gradually lost as it grew up, according to new research published in the journal Current Biology on Thursday. The finding is a first for the fossil record and may shed light on why birds have beaks and not teeth.
Scientists at the Immunology Frontier Research Center at Osaka University, Japan, report a new group of monocytes they call SatM. Studies in mice show that SatM may be responsible for causing fibrosis and creates a new drug target for an ailment that has little effective therapies.
For the first time, physicists have shown that atoms of antimatter appear to give off the same kind of light that atoms of regular matter do when illuminated with lasers, a new study finds. More precise measurements of this emitted light could unearth clues that might finally help solve the mystery of why there is so much less antimatter than normal matter in the universe, researchers say.
If Santa really lived at the North Pole his sleigh would run the risk of falling through the ice this week, empty or fully laden. Temperatures in the high Arctic will approach melting point on Thursday, including near the North Pole, a massive 30 degrees or more above average for this time of the year.
Antimatter is weird stuff. It was created during the Big Bang along with traditional matter, but it has the exact opposite properties of the kinds of matter we know: anti-electrons have a positive charge rather than negative, for example, while antiprotons, the antimatter versions of positively charged protons, are negatively charged.