Scientists using a powerful telescope in Western Australia have discovered a “mysterious” object in our galaxy, which lets off gigantic blasts of energy three times an hour. The researchers reckon it could be “an ultra-long-period magnetar,” which has never been observed before. The object was discovered by Tyrone O’Doherty, a …
Read More »Brazilian police discover $3.5mn trove of Nazi memorabilia at home of ‘insane psychopath’ suspected of child rape
The discovery, which lead detective Luis Armond described as “totally unusual and shocking,” was announced by law enforcement on Wednesday. It followed the detention of a 58-year-old man, who was accused of raping a 12-year-old boy and abusing other children in a condominium in the western part of Rio where …
Read More »Russian police investigating ‘Satanist’ murders discover body buried in woods after pair admits killing & EATING victim – reports
St. Petersburg’s Fontanka news site reported on Thursday that officers had recovered a body from a wooded area north of the Baltic Sea city. The grisly discovery comes just one day after two Satanists, named by local media as Andrey Tregubenko and Olga Bolshakova, were said to have confessed to …
Read More »Scientists discover underwater currents which make hurricanes up to 65% more powerful
While parsing through the high-resolution data from subsurface oceanographic instruments positioned along coral reefs in southwest Puerto Rico, researchers from the US Geological Survey (USGS) may have inadvertently stumbled upon a new method which could improve forecasts ahead of the Earth’s most devastating storms. For context, Hurricane Maria killed over …
Read More »Scientists discover ‘living fossil’ thought to have been extinct for 273mn years on ocean floor near Japan
The creatures in question are non-skeletal corals and crinoids, or sea lilies, who were found proliferating on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 100 meters (330 feet) below the surface, off the coasts of Honshu and Shikoku in Japan. They managed to survive undetected, having gone AWOL from the fossil …
Read More »Archeologists discover 3,000-yr-old ‘golden city of Luxor’ in Egypt in one of the biggest finds since King Tut’s tomb (PHOTOS)
The city, which dates back to King Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt between 1391 BC and 1353 BC, was once the largest administrative and industrial settlement in the ancient empire, lead archaeologist Zahi Hawass said in a statement. The site was dubbed the “Lost Golden City of Luxor” and is …
Read More »Scientists discover new bacterium linked to fatal, mystery chimp disease which could jump to humans
Since 2005, some 56 critically endangered Western chimpanzees have died suddenly at the Tacugama sanctuary in Sierra Leone after abruptly developing bouts of neurological problems, extreme intestinal bloating, vomiting and diarrhea. No medical treatment could prevent their impending doom. This week, after five years of research, scientists think they have …
Read More »Mysterious ‘alien megastructure’ star is not alone as astronomers discover dwarf star neighbor
The otherwise normal star KIC 8462852, better known as Boyajian’s Star, is slightly larger and hotter than the Sun and sits around 1,480 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. The new breakthrough suggests that the star has a binary companion that could be contributing to its unexplained flickering. The …
Read More »Worth a shot: Scientists discover way to quickly clear alcohol from blood by… breathing
The group of scientists, led by Dr. Joseph Fisher at the University Health Network, a medical research organization in Toronto, Canada, were exploring treatments for acute alcohol intoxication when they happened upon a novel solution that generated more than a few sighs of disbelief at how simple it was. “It’s …
Read More »Philadelphia police discover van ‘loaded with EXPLOSIVES’ as sporadic looting continues for 3rd night despite curfew
The abandoned vehicle was discovered around 10pm local time, roughly an hour after a citywide curfew kicked in on Wednesday night. Police cordoned off the area while ATF agents and a bomb squad recovered multiple “propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks,”according to 6abc Action News. No one was found …
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