Humans Keep Mummifying in This Mountain Town, and No One Knows Why
There’s a common occurrence at the San Bernardo municipal cemetery, the burial site for a small Colombian town high up in the ...
A Father and Daughter Went Fishing—and Accidentally Discovered a 152-Year-Old Shipwreck
A father and daughter who were out on a fishing adventure discovered a previously unknown shipwreck. The find of a 152-year-old ship in Wisconsin has historical ties to the Great Peshtigo Fire. Every ...
A U.S. Gunship Sank a Fishing Vessel in the Pacific. The Target Was No Ordinary Boat.
A Chinese Coast Guard ship fires a water cannon at a Philippine Navy chartered vessel conducting a routine resupply mission ...
An Astronomer Says He Knows Why Aliens Haven’t Contacted Us Yet
Gamma-ray bursts weren’t discovered until the 1960s.
A Whole Bunch of F-22s Are Flocking to This Tiny Island on China's Doorstep
The 27th Fighter Squadron, normally based in Virginia, touched down in Okinawa, Japan in late April as part of a rotation of ...
Russia Is Flexing Its Nuclear Muscles With Unprecedented Drills. So, What Now?
Russia announced its Southern Military District would hold snap tactical nuclear weapons drills involving its ground, navy, and air forces that will help “iron out” how exactly it might conduct a ...
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Scientists Discovered the World's Deepest Blue Hole. And They Still Can't Find Its Bottom.
Over the course of millions of years, helped along by a dino-killing asteroid, geologic pockmarks known as cenotes and blue holes fill the Yucatan peninsula, providing an oasis for animal life. In ...