Quantum Weirdness Just Got Weirder: Reality Needs an Observer

June 18, 2015
A new physics experiment has verified the concept of quantum indeterminacy, where a particle exists as both a particle and a wave until observed. As well, the experiment also shows that the "decision" made by the particle can travel backward... continued

Was Life on Earth Seeded by Aliens? Scientists Find a Strange Device

June 16, 2015
Researchers in the UK say they may have discovered a miniature device that was used to seed life on Earth. Analyzing samples taken from the stratosphere by a high-altitude balloon, researchers from the University of Buckingham discovered a tiny metallic... continued

Texas Braces for More Floods: Could be ‘Catastrophic’

June 16, 2015
The State of Texas has been soaked by record-shattering rainfall and disastrous floods, and now a tropical depression moving in to the eastern part of the state threatens a catastrophic situation. The waterlogged ground and already full rivers cannot absorb... continued

Blood Cells Found in Dinosaur Fossils

June 16, 2015
Researchers have found what appears to be red blood cells and connective tissue, discovered in 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossils. Researchers studying a fossilized dinosaur claw at the Imperial College in London have discovered microscopic ovoid structures in it that appear... continued

Another “Roswell Mummy” Image Surfaces

June 13, 2015
A new image of a mummy has surfaced that bears significant resemblance to the one that appears in the slide originally presented at Jaime Maussan's Cinco de Mayo "Be Witness" project in Mexico City. As Unknowncountry was unable to obtain... continued

Big Data Analysis Suggests Common Antacids May Greatly Increase Heart Attack Risk

June 11, 2015
Adults who use proton pump inhibitors such as Prevacid, Nexium and Prilosec are between 16 and 21 percent more likely to experience a heart attack than people who don't use the commonly prescribed antacid drugs, according to a massive new... continued

Activity in Area of Toba Supervolcano

June 11, 2015
The Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has issued an alert warning regarding Mount Sinabung in Karo regency, North Sumatra, after finding increased volcanic activity. At the same time, some residents living near the massive Toba supervolcano are reporting heat,... continued

Stone Tools May Predate Known Human Ancestors

June 9, 2015
Paleoarchaeologists working in Kenya have unearthed the oldest known stone tools found to date, and say that they predate our earliest known ancestors by over half a million years. Digging by accident at a site they didn't originally intend to... continued

Will First Contact be through Alien Machines?

June 9, 2015
Britain's Astronomer Royal, Prof Lord Rees, says that if we were to make contact with extraterrestrials from outside our solar system, it would be with intelligent machines, rather than with organic aliens. While addressing an audience at the Cheltenham Science... continued

World’s First Lab-Grown Replacement Limb

June 6, 2015
Researchers have created the world's first biological replacement limb, grown in a lab from the creature's own cells. Dr Harald Ott of the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery has grown the replacement forelimb for a rat, using the forelimb... continued