The United States’ largest aerospace organization is launching an investigation into unidentified aerial phenomena, an effort paralleling numerous governmental, academic and civilian investigations into the subject of UFOs. Named the Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena Community of Interest (UAPCI), this new investigative body is being formed by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauticsread more

An international team of researchers has identified genetic traits that appear to have enabled individuals to survive the Black Death, a bubonic plague pandemic that swept across northern Africa and Eurasia in the mid-fourteenth century. Although these genetic variations were beneficial in surviving a plague that killed nearly half ofread more

[Update: Clarified that the fossils of more than one individual discovered at the site; the previous description implied that there was only one individual recovered.] Archaeologists have unearthed evidence that a group of “little people” that were previously featured only in indigenous Taiwanese legend really did exist, meaning that ifread more