In a study published in PNAS, researchers used conservation biology and genomics to discover that the New Guinea singing dog, thought to be extinct for 50 years, still thrives. Scientists found that the ancestral dog population still stealthily wanders in the Highlands of New Guinea. This finding opens new...
A new Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game is reportedly in development, but not at its original developer BioWare, or its current owner, Electronic Arts, whose exclusive Star Wars licence expires in 2023. There's no word on which studio is behind it (though speculation is rife), with...
'Mary Tyler Moore Show' actress was born in Des Moines. Cloris Leachman, who won an Oscar for her role in the bleak coming-of-age movie “The Last Picture Show” and Emmy awards during a prolific television career that stretched back to the “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has died at her...
The actor (real name William Joseph Lara) and his wife, Gwen Lara, were two of seven people on the plane, according to Rutherford County Fire & Rescue; all are presumed dead. The group took off in a Cessna Citation 501 from Smyrna Airport, south of Nashville, on Saturday morning,...
A bird has been tracked making a mammoth journey of over 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) from Alaska to New Zealand without a single break, setting a new world record for the longest logged continuous flight by a bird. The bar-tailed godwit, known as 4BBRW, set off from southwestern Alaska on...
3D-printing can achieve some incredible things, but few would have anticipated a microscopic Star Trek Voyager would be created to research microswimmers. Physicists from Leiden University have been working on several microscopic items to study microswimmers. The research team previously developed a 10-micrometre ‘Benchy the tugboat’, and they have...
The wastewater test developed by CHEO Research Institute cell biologist Tyson Graber can be done more quickly and cheaply than the genetic sequencing currently being done in provincial labs to identify cases of B117 and other COVID variants of concern. As soon as news got out, the phone calls and...
Journey's modern-era lineup imploded this week when guitarist Neal Schon and keyboardist Jonathan Cain fired their rhythm section. The pair alleged that co-founding bassist Ross Valory and longtime drummer Steve Smith "launched a coup to assume control of one of the band's corporate entities, Nightmare Productions Inc." in an attempt...
Aliens wishing you Happy New Year, Green UFO spotted in UK skies. As people in the UK geared up to celebrate New Year's Eve with fireworks and lights, a mysterious green object streaked across the night sky for a few seconds. More than 700 sightings of the green flash of...
Three ancient shipwrecks which have already revealed important findings were discovered recently off the coast of Kasos Island in Greece’s Aegean Sea. During the exploration, which was funded by the Kasos Association of New York and was supported by the municipality of the island, divers discovered a series of archaeologically...