Tom Metcalfe offers an intriguing article about a remarkable type of artifact. These Roman-era puzzlers recall the 5,000 year-old Neolithic stone balls of Scotland, profiled in Greg Taylor’s outstanding Examine The Mysterious Ancient Stone Balls of Scotland in a 3D Viewer. It’s been suggested both types of artifacts might be “salesman’s samples” of stonemasons and […]

It’s hard to think of a more no-frills album title than Folk Singer Vol. 2, the follow-up to the aptly titled Folk Singer, Vol. 1 from Willie Watson, releasing Sept. 15 on Acony Records. But anyone familiar with Watson’s stripped down style won’t be surprised by the lack of flash from Watson, or…

The giant Dalmatian Pelican, whose wingspans measure up to 11 and a half feet, is thought to have been carried here on last weekend’s humid weather from Europe.

Pope Francis delivers his “Urbi et Orbi” (“To the city and to the world”) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Pope Francis is praying that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for Syria and …

But an analysis of bacterial DNA in teeth from victims of a plague outbreak in Marseilles, France, in 1722, found they were not infected with new strains of plague. Instead, they were killed by descendants of the Black Death strain, reports a group of …

In two recent experiments, a team of computer scientists at the University of Washington and Microsoft, and a separate group at the University of Illinois, have shown that DNA molecules can be the basis for an archival storage system potentially …

MetroNews Canada Thousands of UFOs seen in Manitoba over two centuries: report | MetroMetroNews CanadaA Winnipeg-based UFO researcher has combed through years of data and determined unidentified flying objects have been spotted more than 2,000 times in the skies over Manitoba in the last 200 years. Chris Rutkowksi has been researching reports of …and more »

A Winnipeg-based UFO researcher has combed through years of data and determined unidentified flying objects have been spotted more than 2,000 times in the skies over Manitoba in the last 200 years. Chris Rutkowksi has been researching reports of …

Yersinia pestis, the same type of bacterium that was responsible for the pandemic that wiped out 60% of the European population between the 14th and 17th centuries, maintains a foothold in the United States and around the globe in rodents and the fleas …

Vikings certainly got around, but they didn’t note much about their… ahem… conquests. Gene sequencing is filling in the historical blanks, opening the door to some geneological puzzles. An unusual marker in Icelandic DNA could be from a skraeling woman, but can’t be found in contemporary Native Americans. Maybe it’s proof they interbred with elves […]