A layer of thick woodchips eroding near the top of one dune marked the remains of an 1897 village — Mitletukeruk — abandoned after the 1918 influenza pandemic. On the cut-away side of another, charcoal fire pits and scattered bones marked a site from …
Are you a magnet for mosquitoes? It's probably in your DNA. A new study finds there's a genetic basis to certain people's attractiveness to mosquitoes, and that identical twins are likely to be equally appealing — or repulsive — to the bugs. The …
Without leads, the case grew cold until recently, when Rodriguez's DNA was collected after his arrest in another sexual assault case, police said. His DNA sample, collected with a warrant, and the DNA evidence from the 2013 case were compared in a lab …
Bloodsworth said it was fate that brought him “The Blooding,” a book by Jason Wambaugh that details the account of the first time DNA evidence was used in a criminal case in England, through the prison's library exchange program. It inspired him to …
ham Israel on Sunday, 13 Sivan, began the weeklong nationwide preparedness exercise to determine the nation's readiness for warfare. “Operation Turning Point 8” involves the IDF, Israel Police and many other emergency …
However in fulfillment of the Biblical prophecy of Jews returning to the God given land of Israel and the rebuilding of the Holy Jewish Temple, Monday's reenactment is one step forward to the completion when all the nations …
Reincarnated Buddhist monks are nothing new, but Dr. Erlendur Haraldsson’s shedding new light on these remarkable claims. He reviews facts and dates with due diligence, but Haraldsson also studied their behavior for monastic personalities. One big clue tends to be kids spontaneously reciting prayers from memory. Turning back the clock on her research, Tara MacIsaac […]
Living up to its backronym, Never A Straight Answer confounds amateur astronomers, and Paul Seaburn, with Ceres close-ups that don’t feature the mysterious high albedo regions. See for yourself, NASA’s closing in on everything but weirdness generating headlines for their mission. Also from Paul’s desk, the Mysterious Holes In Swiss Lake And Swiss Cheese have […]
Hope you’re hungry, as Nick Redfern presents the choicest morsels from a book he remarks “is destined to become a classic.” Joshua Cutchin’s A Trojan Feast covers the symbolism, and active ingredients, of otherworldly meals and offerings, with erudition giving Jacques Vallée a run for his money. One of Cutchin’s topics is fairy foods, but […]
Is this a case of mountains being made out of molehills, or was something truly strange afoot in Bellingham? Something was leaving its mark on motorists’s windshields, but the cause was never uncovered. The phenomenon harkens back to fish-falls, where an event consists entirely of one species despite being vacuumed up from a pond, as […]