Shannon was walking with her son to school when she saw a huge metallic disc with portholes in the sky over Tulsa, Oklahoma on January 20, 2020. The sun was reflecting off of it and although it scared her what she saw, she took a photo of the UFO with her phone. Shannon states: I […]
By now, you’ve definitely heard about the novel coronavirus that emerged in China a few weeks ago and has since put the rest of the world on edge. So far, the 2019 novel coronavirus, as it’s currently known, has spread throughout China to more than 20 other countries. It has killed at least 200 people […]
The mound-building society that lived at Cahokia is one of America’s most famous — and mysterious — ancient civilizations. The Mississippian people thrived for centuries in what is now Illinois’ Mississippi River valley, just outside of St. Louis, until they mysteriously vanished sometime around 1400 A.D. It’s a tempting story, one that plays on the […]
For more than 200,000 years humans were nomadic foragers, living in small groups spread over vast lands. Then, about 10,000 years ago, in several corners of the globe, some people settled down and started farming. Villages sprung up and grew into densely populated cities. And that’s when poop became a problem. Urbanites could not do […]
Called “the Holy Grail of herpetologists” among the global community of reptile aficionados because so little is known about them, the ultra-rare lizards are native to the island of Borneo and concentrate in lowland rainforests near rivers. [embedded content] Until recently, scientists and collectors had captured fewer than one hundred specimens since the species’ 1877 discovery. […]
PRESIDENTIAL candidate Donald Trump praised sons Donald Jr and Eric’s hunting talents as sick photos emerge of them showing off slain safari animals. SICK photographs have emerged of two of Donald Trump’s sons showing off animals they murdered on kill safaris in Africa. X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne posted a picture on Instagram of Donald Jnr, […]
The Citizens Radio UFO Network (CRUFON), an offshoot of the private International UFO Registry, is a loosely formed group of UFO enthusiasts who use their CBs to track the paths of the elusive Flying Saucers [UFOs]. By The Desert Sun4-29-1977 Dr. William Hauck, North American director of IUFOR, says that CBs have become […]
Sunday, February 2 is the most exciting day of the year for owl-lovers all over the world: SuperbOwl Sunday! This is the day when the ornithologically-inclined brave the elements to admire neighborhood owls, photograph owls and/or, for some reason, stay indoors and watch football. Work some science into your Super Bowl party by giving the […]
As amphibians go, axolotls are pretty cute. These salamanders sport a Mona Lisa half-smile and red, frilly gills that make them look dressed up for a party. You might not want them at your soiree, though: They’re also cannibals. While rare now in the wild, axolotls used to hatch en masse, and it was a […]
A new solar telescope in Hawaii has taken its first photo and movie of the sun. The shots are the highest resolution views of our star yet, showing details on the sun’s surface as small as about 18 miles in size. The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is located on the Haleakala volcano on the […]
‘There’s the possibility of experiencing pleasure that Earth didn’t prepare you for’ Tonia, a 28-year-old student in L.A., is running me through her thoughts on having sex with aliens. “Obviously, the first factor is whether the alien is hot, but that’s subjective,” she begins. “What I think about most is pregnancy: Can the alien get […]
Einstein’s theory of relativity has many strange consequences. Time moves slower for those traveling at high speeds, and massive objects like the Sun deform the space-time in which they sit, causing light to “bend” around them. But one of the most curious is a concept called frame-dragging. When a massive object rotates, it will swirl, or drag, […]
Neutrinos, so-called “ghost particles” scattered across the universe, can be 10 million times lighter than the mass of an electron, according to a new study. Neutrinos are referred to as ghostly because they are extremely volatile, or vaporous, cosmic particles that can pass through any kind of matter without changing. They have almost no mass […]
The work represents some of the first detailed research on how humans would react to meeting aliens Humans will actually be very happy to meet aliens, according to new research. Hollywood might have led us to expect that an alien invasion would be greeted with tanks and guns. But some of the first serious research into […]
Starting about 200,000 years ago, humans began moving out of Africa. As the current theory goes, they never looked back. Those who reached Europe mated with Neanderthals, human relatives residing on the continent. Echoes of this tryst show up today in the genomes of those of European and Asian descent — we’re a few percent […]