Bar employees yank snake from ceiling fan Staff members at the Backyard, a bar, grill and music venue in Waco, Texas, were forced to remove a snake from the establishment after the creature somehow entangled itself in the ceiling fan, all while concerned customers can be heard gasping and screaming. A man in Cheatham County, […] More
A stunning new study from NASA highlights the impact humans are having on fresh water availability across the globe. The study, published earlier this week, found that Earth’s wetlands are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier, due to human water management, climate change and natural cycles. “What we are witnessing is major hydrologic […] More
The headquarters flag used by George Washington during the Revolutionary War will go on display in Philadelphia next month, marking its first public appearance in the city since the war itself. The rare faded and fragile blue silk flag, which measures two feet by three feet, will be on display in the Museum of the […] More
The Assyrian cuneiform tablets in a ceramic vessel (Photo: Peter Pfälzner, University of Tübingen) The discovery of clay tablets in Iraqi Kurdistan has helped archaeologists unlock the mystery of an ancient lost city. The 92 clay tablets were unearthed last summer by archaeologists from Germany’s University of Tübingen during an excavation in the village of […] More
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has slowly been swallowing up homes, cars and other structures throughout the Leilani Estates and Lanipuna Gardens neighborhoods with its 2,000-degree lava since it erupted on May 3. The volcano’s destruction has shocked the local community — and the nation as a whole — as it continues to spill fire and steam and threatens to […] More
Beachgoers in Great Yarmouth, England, are afraid to take a dip in the waters off the British coast after half-eaten dolphins washed ashore over the weekend. Locals fear a “monster” great white shark is to blame. The first dolphin carcass was discovered early Saturday on Yarmouth’s Pleasure beach, according to The Sun. A day later, another mangled […] More
An asteroid the size of New York City’s Statue of Liberty is expected to buzz by Earth on May 15. (iStock) An asteroid the size of New York City’s Statue of Liberty is expected to buzz by Earth Tuesday, and this time, scientists are ready and waiting. At its closest point, the asteroid – called 2010 […] More
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels connects with Purdue alumni astronauts Scott Tingle, left, and Andrew Feustel, who are aboard the International Space Station some 250-plus miles above Earth. (Purdue University photo/John Underwood) Amid all the commencement ceremonies taking place at colleges across the country, one particular commemoration on Friday featured a guest who was literally […] More
The spectacular 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, killed dozens of people and sent volcanic ash across the country. (Associated Press) Multiple fissures emitting minor lava spatter opened Saturday on Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, heightening fears of an impending major eruption and prompting a warning by the US Geological Survey of more disaster […] More
SpaceX successfully launched its upgraded ‘Block 5’ Falcon 9 rocket Friday afternoon, carrying Bangladesh’s first satellite into orbit. The company had aborted its first attempt to launch the rocket on Thursday. Falcon 9 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., at 4:15 p.m. Flight controllers watched as the rocket took off […] More
For days, Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has devastated the Big Island, oozing chunks of 2,000-degree lava and opening more than a dozen cracks (fissures) in the ground that spit out toxic gas and steam. Now residents are preparing for another threat: Kilauea could explode. Geologists issued a second “orange alert” Wednesday, meaning there’s a strong possiblity the […] More
Archaeologists are in the process of uncovering this carving at the tomb of a high general in Saqqara. Credit: Photo courtesy Egyptian antiquities ministry Archaeologists have discovered the sprawling, 3,300-year-old tomb of an army general named Iwrhya at the ancient Egyptian site of Saqqara. Hieroglyphic inscriptions found on the tomb walls say that Iwrhya “is a high […] More