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Monkeys, like humans, will take the time and effort to punish others who get more than their fair share, according to a new study. In fact, they can act downright spiteful. Capuchin monkeys will yank on a rope to collapse a table that is holding a partner monkey's food. While chimpanzees collapse their partner's table only after direct personal affronts like theft, capuchins punish more often, even in cases where the other monkey merely had more food, according to a new study.
The citizens of nations that rate themselves happiest display a specific genetic feature: their DNA is more likely to contain a specific allele involved in sensory pleasure and pain reduction, say researchers. They weighed up genetic and various external factors to might contribute to national differences in happiness.
Alt: Do YOU have the happiness gene? It may depend where you live: Sweden and Ghana have lots of cheery DNA, but it's bad news for the Chinese and Jordanians
New archaeological evidence has dramatically pushed back the accepted earliest human occupation of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi to more than 100,000 years ago – 60,000 years older than previously thought.
Alt: Mysterious 'Hobbit' Relative May Have Lived on Isolated Island
A five-foot-long skull discovered in war-torn Tunisia has led to the identification of a new species.
University of Alberta PhD student Tetsuto Miyashita is among seven scientists to report the largest crocodile ever known to swim the Earth's seas.
A woolly mammoth dug out of the permafrost of northern Russia has cut marks to its bones and tusks indicating that it was slaughtered for food about 45,000 years ago – revealing that humans were active in the Arctic about 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Alt: A Mysterious Mammoth Carcass Could Change Human History
Archaeologists in Austria believe they have found Europe’s oldest prosthetic implant – a sixth-century wooden foot.
The discovery was made in the grave of a man missing his left foot and ankle at Hemmaberg, southern Austria. At the end of his leg was an iron ring and remnants of a clump of wood and leather.
A prosthetic leg with a hooved foot has been discovered in a tomb containing the remains of a man who died 2,200 years ago. Based on radiocarbon dating, archaeologists believe the cemetery, discovered in Turpan China, is home to the remains of a group of people referred to as the Gushi. The man’s tomb is one of 30 excavated by archaeologists, his remains were found with the prosthetic still attached to his deformed knee.
Dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots are perhaps the strangest of all its features. Now we’re finally in a low-enough altitude to get an unprecedented close-up look—and what we’re seeing may only have deepened the mystery.
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft swung into its lowest orbit yet—a cool cruising height of 240 miles and started snapping pictures of a variety of features of the dwarf planet.
For the first time, scientists have confirmed the existence of large patches of water ice on the surface of a comet, saying it’s likely formed a dry, crunchy coating over an ice-layered core of the iconic comet called 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The discovery solves a months-long mystery over why water has been identified everywhere else on the comet except its surface.
In physics circles a sense of déjà vu is setting in—breathless headlines have recently championed a possible discovery of gravitational waves, or ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Less than a year ago the same thing happened, although that time the team behind the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 (BICEP2) experiment claimed a discovery that turned out to be a mistake. Time will tell if the new potential detection, about which rumors have swirled in lieu of any official announcement by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), will turn out to be real.
There’s breaking a record, and then there’s blowing it to smithereens. Astronomers using relatively small telescopes around the globe have spotted the brightest supernova ever seen, shining about 20 times brighter than the 100 billion stars in the entire Milky Way galaxy — or, put another way, as bright as 570 billion suns.
Alt: Mystery Object 50 Times Brighter than the Milky Way --"May Reveal Something Never Seen Before"
Four tiny, implantable rods that steadily ooze drugs could help some patients kick opioid addictions, an advisory committee for the Food and Drug Administration concluded Tuesday. With a 12 to 5 vote, the committee of medical experts recommended that the regulatory agency approve the implantable device for use—and the agency often follows such advice.
I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for almost a decade. I had tried to quit, but nothing worked. The patch gave me a rash. Nicorette gave me incessant hiccups. And neither reduced my craving for cigarettes.
Related: Reefer madness debunked as major UK study finds marijuana does not reduce IQ in teens
Regular practice of Transcendental Meditation enables some active duty service members battling post-traumatic stress disorder to reduce or even eliminate their psychotropic medication and get better control of their often-debilitating symptoms, researchers report in the journal Military Medicine.
Can adversity be good for development? The answer appears to be yes, depending on the timing and nature of the stresses. But it is important to note that it is a person's adaptive responses to life's challenges that are beneficial, not the exposure to adversity itself.
Related: His stress is not like her stress
The age at which U.S. women have their first baby is going up, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Related: More people in Europe are dying than are being born
With the flip of two switches, men could one day curb their sperm flow and activate easily reversible birth control, according to ballsy German inventor Clemens Bimek.
Bimek, a carpenter who was frustrated with the lack of male-controlled contraceptives, came up with the idea after watching a television show about anatomy.
Oetzi the Iceman has no living female relatives, as his maternal genetic branch is now extinct, says a new research into the genetic history of the 5,300-year-old mummy.
According to the study, the Iceman’s maternal line appears to have originated and died out in the eastern Italian Alps. On the other hand, his paternal lineage is still observed in Europe, and new male relatives, alive and well, may be possibly added to the list of the mummy’s descendants.
The discovery of a juvenile Chasmosaurus—one of the rarest dinosaur discoveries—made headlines around the world in late 2013: Professor Philip Currie from the University of Alberta and his colleagues have now published the results of their scientific findings in an alpha-level taxonomic description in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Today, the American Museum of Natural History dropped the curtain to reveal one of the biggest paleontological finds of recent years. Everything in that sentence is literal—the museum lowered a curtain to reveal a full-sized cast of the Titanosaur, a species that may be the largest dinosaur ever discovered.
Stone tools found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi predate the arrival of modern humans to the area by more than 60,000 years—but researchers aren’t sure who made them.
The perplexing artifacts, announced on Wednesday in Nature, are most likely between 118,000 and 194,000 years old, though some may be even older.
What was behind the legendary story of King Midas and his golden touch?
That is the question to be answered—not with chests full of gold, but with a spectacular array of 150 objects, including more than 120 specially-loaned ancient artifacts from four museums in the Republic of Turkey, keys to telling the true story of a very real and powerful ruler of the Phrygian kingdom.
Almost 3,000 years after being destroyed by fire, the astonishingly well preserved remains of two Bronze Age houses and their contents have been discovered at a quarry site in Peterborough.
Search teams looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 think they have stumbled across a 19th-Century shipwreck.
Underwater sonar equipment turned up a strange object more than two miles beneath the waves just before Christmas.
It started as a normal email exchange with a tech CEO. He was up for a coffee, and passed me to his assistant to find a date. But then it turned a bit strange.
Her emails were too good: all written in the same carefully casual, slightly humourless style. All formatted the same. All sent at socially convincing times. And all at believable intervals from my own messages. But they were off just a little.
Surgeons used a new technique to attach a thought-controlled robot arm directly to an amputee’s stump, giving him a far greater range of motion with the advanced prosthetic limb.
Scientists in Britain are ready to genetically modify human embryos for the first time as part of a research effort to shed light on the root causes of recurrent miscarriages.
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London could receive approval for the controversial work as early as Thursday when the government’s fertility watchdog meets to consider the proposal.
The first children with debilitating "mystery" diseases have finally been given a diagnosis as part of a huge scheme to analyse people's DNA.
Four-year-old Georgia Walburn-Green's damaged eyes and kidneys and her inability to talk had baffled doctors.
Reading to babies does more for language development than playing with toys or puppets. More back-and-forth interaction could be the reason why, a new study finds.
Researchers looked at how mothers responded to their 12-month-olds during book reading, puppet play, and toy play.
It's often said that the bacteria and other microbes in our body outnumber our own cells by about ten to one. That's a myth that should be forgotten, say researchers in Israel and Canada. The ratio between resident microbes and human cells is more likely to be one-to-one, they calculate.
A trio of biologists has conducted a study of one kind of song bird and their results suggest that the females of the species may have lost the desire to sing out of fear it would lead predators to their nest.
Homing pigeons are bred for their navigation skills. They find their way along a mental map of signs and smells, using the sun and the Earth’s geomagnetic field as a biological compass to find their way back to their roost.
But what happens if pollution makes the air so hazy that some of these senses get disrupted?
You might already know that the oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. But you might be surprised to discover that some of that carbon makes it to the sea floor and gets pushed into the Earth by the movement of the Earth’s tectonic plates, where it comes in contact with the mantle and forms a rare type of diamond.
Giant icebergs are responsible for storing up to 20 percent of carbon in the Southern Ocean, a new study has found. The Southern Ocean plays a significant part in the global carbon cycle, and is responsible for approximately 10 per cent of the ocean's total carbon sequestration through a mixture of biologically driven and chemical processes, including phytoplankton growth.
It’s hard to deny that humans are shaping planet Earth: from atmospheric composition to urban heat islands and widespread habitat loss, “before” and “after” comparisons reveal pervasive changes. These alterations are among the justifications for the proposed “Anthropocene” geologic epoch, which recongizes the dominant role of human activity on a number of planetary parameters.
Recorded human history has played out within one type of climate—an interglacial period. During the glacial periods of the last million years (commonly referred to as “ice ages”), great ice sheets grew to cover Canada and some points south, as well as Northern Europe and much of Russia.
The world's largest canyon may lie under the Antarctic ice sheet, according to analysis of satellite data by a team of scientists, led by Durham University.
Although the discovery needs to be confirmed by direct measurements, the previously unknown canyon system is thought to be over 1,000km long and in places as much as 1km deep, comparable in depth to the Grand Canyon in USA, but many times longer.
There are few more potent reminders that Mars used to be a wet world than seeing ancient, dried up river beds etched into the red planet’s surface. Although this particular example has been weathered by hundreds of thousands or even millions of years by Mars’ weak winds, its beautifully preserved channel is telling us a story.
For the first time, scientists have spotted large patches of water ice on the surface of a comet, thanks to instruments aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta orbiter.
The idea that humans will eventually travel to and inhabit other parts of our galaxy was well expressed by the early Russian rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, who wrote, “Earth is humanity’s cradle, but you’re not meant to stay in your cradle forever.” Since then the idea has been a staple of science fiction, and thus become part of a consensus image of humanity’s future. Going to the stars is often regarded as humanity’s destiny, even a measure of its success as a species.
If you talk to a member of SETI, he'll probably tell you the closest we've ever got to finding scientific evidence of Extraterrestrial intelligence was in 1977, professor Jerry Ehman at Ohio State University detected a peculiarly-strong signal from deep space using the Big Ear radio telescope.
Dark matter has been making waves in science for years, but apparently it's been making ripples in the Milky Way for even longer.
New research reveals that dark matter may be responsible for creating waves observed at the outer edges of the galaxy.
Alt: Scientists struggle to stay grounded after possible gravitational wave signal
Harvard professor’s radical theory of dark matter wiping out the dinosaurs and enigmatic research on extra dimensions has made her a true trailblazer
Capturing the imagination with her enigmatic research and speaking with an authority born of its influence, she has featured in magazines ranging from Slate to Vogue and written a clutch of popular science books that have propelled her on to the New York Times bestseller list.
A prehistoric giraffe that died out 10,000 years ago might have been the largest ruminant that walked the Earth.
Victorian scientists believed the creature was a giraffe with a trunk and a "missing link" between mammals.
“Superducks” once roamed the Montana landscape. Montana State University paleontologists Elizabeth Freedman Fowler and Jack Horner described the large duck-billed dinosaurs with strangely tiny nasal crests November 11 in PLOS ONE.
Spinosaurus gained a notorious reputation in Jurassic Park 3 (spoiler alert), stomping on to the screen to take down the mighty T. rex in a rather memorable duel. Since gaining global fame on the silver screen, researchers now believe Spinosaurus was an adept swimmer, terrorizing local inhabitants of ancient river systems in North Africa some 100 million years ago.
Paleontologists searching far and wide in Tunisia made a discovery of massive proportions: the world's largest sea-dwelling crocodile, previously unknown to science.
This prehistoric crocodile is believed to have measured more than 30 feet long and weighed three tons. The skull alone is more than five feet long.
We've come a long way from the days of hunting and gathering. With advancements in science and technology, we're now a society that hunts for the best price and gathers coupons. Since less of our energy is going to finding and killing our next meal, we have time to be more discerning about the ingredients used in our food.
Scientists have identified a cerebral marker specific to autism that can be detected by MRI and is present as from the age of two years. The abnormality thus detected consists in a less deep fold in Broca's area, a region of the brain specialized in language and communication, functions that are impaired in autistic patients. This discovery may assist in the earlier diagnosis and management of these patients.
A study published in Science in early 2015 reported that most cancers aren’t preventable and are simply a case of “bad luck”. A year on, however, and a study published in Nature has come to the opposite conclusion: that external factors such as tobacco, sunlight and human papilloma virus play a greater part in whether or not a person gets cancer.
Morality is not rooted in religion, and religion matters less for moral values now than it did thirty years ago, says a researcher. Based on the analysis of European survey data, researchers found that religious decline does not equal moral decline.
If life is effectively an endless series of photocopies, as DNA is transcribed and passed on from one being to the next, then evolution is the high-stakes game of waiting for the copier to get it wrong.
Too wrong, and you’ll live burdened by a maladaptive mutation or genetic disorder. Worse, you might never live at all.
"Twenty years ago, this would have been heretical; finding evidence of life 3.8 billion years ago was shocking," said Mark Harrison, a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and a a member of the National Academy of Sciences. "Life on Earth may have started almost instantaneously. "With the right ingredients, life seems to form very quickly."
DNA is probably best known for its iconic shape—the double helix that James Watson and Francis Crick first described more than 60 years ago. But the molecule rarely takes that form in living cells. Instead, double-helix DNA is further wrapped into complex shapes that can play a profound role in how it interacts with other molecules.
It's unlikely to come as a surprise to anyone who has a dog as a best friend, but your dog gets you. He knows when you're happy. She moves in a little closer when you're sad. He may not fetch your slippers, but he does seem to sense when you've had a truly lousy day at work.
Alt: A man’s best friend: Study shows dogs can recognize human emotions
Global efforts to crack down on illegal ivory trafficking are eating away at prices, a wildlife trade regulator said Tuesday, voicing confidence the bottom was falling out of the market.
“We’re seeing the price of ivory start to tank,” said John Scanlon, head of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Early in May, 11 female elephants that together have spent decades on the road for circuses will step off train cars and super-semi trucks for the last time into retirement in central Florida. Most will be returning to family and friends.
Why are some people always jerks? Yale University psychologists have developed a mathematical model that provides an answer, and also helps to explain why the rest of us are usually nice, even to strangers.
The model developed by Yale's Adam Bear and David Rand incorporates ideas from the evolutionary game theory of cooperation and the behavioral economics of intuition and deliberation.
Using modern genetic approaches, a team of researchers has provided strong support for the long-standing, but hotly debated, evolutionary theory of kin selection, which suggests that altruistic behavior occurs as a way to pass genes to the next generation.
Research on Bengalese finches showed that each of their vocal muscles can change its function to help produce different parameters of sounds, in a manner similar to that of a trained opera singer.
The lowly vulture is a dirty scavenger to many, but Peruvian environmental authorities have recast the birds as superheroes and outfitted them with high-tech gear in a bid to crack down on illegal garbage dumps.
Wearing GPS trackers and mini video cameras, 10 vultures with mythological names have been dispatched to lead authorities to the illegal dumps whose runoff pollutes the rivers and Pacific coastline of the Peruvian capital Lima.
The high-flying microbes can travel across the globe, spreading disease or even changing climates
Considering the prevailing winds, David J. Smith figured the air samples collected atop a dormant volcano in Oregon would be full of DNA signatures from dead microorganisms from Asia and the Pacific Ocean. He didn’t expect anything could survive the journey through the harsh upper atmosphere to the research station at the Mount Bachelor Observatory, at an elevation of 9,000 feet.
The bananas you find in the average U.S. grocery store are pretty much the same: They're the genetic variety known as Cavendish.
In the market in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, though, you have choices.
Brian Irish, a scientist who has been working at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Tropical Agriculture Research Station in Mayagüez, points out our options.
Researchers in China have positively identified a block of ancient vegetable matter as tiny tea buds that were lovingly tucked away in Han Yangling Mausoleum, a sumptuous tomb north of Xi'an. The city Xi'an was once known as Chang'an, seat of power for the Han Dynasty, and stood as the easternmost stop on the vast trade routes known today as the Silk Road.
Before Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were 'Brangelina', there was Neferkhewe and Ruiuresti.
Shrines containing statues of the overseer of north Sudan and his wife were unearthed near the Nile River.
The round faced, big eared individuals were a power couple during their time, as the shrines holding the statues were only built for elite families.
A newly released study published ‘in press’ in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the Uluzzian stone tool industry, generally regarded by scholars to be associated with anatomically modern humans, has its roots in the Mousterian industry, a stone tool tradition that has usually been associated with Neanderthals.
Archaeologists with the University of Southern California (USC) have discovered a burial chamber in the Five Temples section of El Zotz, an ancient Maya city lying in ruins in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve. Within the tomb, researchers uncovered the name of a king: Bakab K’inish (“The sun god who is first in the land”).
Recent excavations at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Knossos find that during the early Iron Age, the city was rich in imports and was around 3 times larger than what was believed from earlier excavations.
Scientists may have discovered the oldest images of a volcano in the world after finding cave paintings of a disaster 36,000 years ago.
The daubs of red and white pigment are among many pictures in the amazing Chauvet caves, discovered in the Ardèche, south east France, in 1994.
Death is inevitable, but what death shows us about the social behaviors of the living is not.
And recent University of Cincinnati research examining the ancient bereavement practices from the the Central Apulian region in pre-Roman Italy helps shed light on economic and social mobility, military service and even drinking customs in a culture that left no written history.
All it took was one mutation more than 600 million years ago. With that random act, a new protein function was born that helped our single-celled ancestor transition into an organized multicellular organism, suggests new research.
Computer-based games can have a beneficial effect on learning, according to ground-breaking new research from the University of Bristol. The brain-imaging study shows that – contrary to popular belief - technological game-playing can involve brain activity that positively supports learning. The research, with students at Bristol, is linked to a bigger classroom study which will involve 10,000 secondary school pupils across the UK – and for which participants are currently being recruited.
Young babies get a bad rap. They’re helpless, fickle and noisy. And even though they allegedly sleep for 16 hours a day, those hours come in 20-minute increments.
Yet hidden in the chaos of a young infant’s life are some truly magnificent skills — perceptual feats that put adults to shame.
New research suggests that the number of children a woman gives birth to could affect the rate at which her body ages, with more children leading to a slower rate of biological aging.
Related: Generous mothers are nagged less
Alongside the conventionally cuddly toy kangaroos, koalas and wombats that have long been sold in the Taronga Zoo gift shop here, a newcomer stands out: a fuzzy plush shark.
It’s bait for young visitors, of course, but it’s also a symbol of efforts to explore the softer side of these widely feared animals.
Keeping honeybees healthy has become a challenge for beekeepers. One main reason is a threat that has been wiping out bees since the late 1980s: the varroa mite.
"It's a parasitic mite that feeds on the blood of adult bees and on the brood. It also transmits virus, and it suppresses the immune system of the bees," explains Penn State honeybee expert Maryann Frazier.
Organs which could be used for human transplants are being grown in farm animals for the first time in an attempt to solve the global shortage of donors and push the boundaries of medical science, it has been revealed.
Alt: Human-Animal Hybrids Growing for Organ Transplants
An adaptive material invented at Rice University combines self-healing and reversible self-stiffening properties.
The Rice material called SAC (for self-adaptive composite) consists of what amounts to sticky, micron-scale rubber balls that form a solid matrix
Researchers at MIT have shown that by surrounding the filament with a special crystal structure they can bounce back the energy which is usually lost
Ever since the EU restricted sales of traditional incandescent light bulbs, homeowners have complained about the shortcomings of their energy-efficient replacements.
Excited rumors began circulating on Twitter this morning that a major experiment designed to hunt for gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein—has observed them directly for the very first time. If confirmed, this would be one of the most significant physics discoveries of the last century.
Scientists have made a cosmic growth chart of the Milky Way galaxy, an innovative blending of data collected by the ongoing Sloan Digital Sky Survey and a new technique to determine the ages of stars.
A new technique could allow scientists to photograph potentially life-supporting planets in nearby multistar systems, its developers say.
The most straightforward way to learn about alien planets is to look at them directly with a telescope, rather than relying on indirect methods such as noticing their effects on the stars they circle.
Astronomers may be looking for alien life in all the wrong places. They should be hunting in the dense, old neighbourhoods of stars known as globular clusters, a study suggests
Captain Gene Cernan was the last person to walk on the Moon. Ultimately, he was the third man to walk in space, one of only three people fortunate enough to go to the Moon twice, and to date, his footprint on the lunar surface is the last marker that humanity left on our nearest neighbor.
The final words that he spoke before stepping on to the tiny craft that would carry him back to Earth are simple and sobering: “We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind.”
Physicists around the world were puzzled recently when an unusual bump appeared in the signal of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, causing them to wonder if it was a new particle previously unknown, or perhaps even two new particles. The collision cannot be explained by the Standard Model, the theoretical foundation of particle physics.
Homer’s Iliad—a 3,000-year-old epic poem—continues to shape how we think about war. “Every adjective evokes the destruction and tragedy of war,” says Caroline Alexander, author of The Iliad: A New Translation. Alexander, a frequent contributor to National Geographic, has made her name writing about modern-day epics like the Mutiny on the Bounty and Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition. But Homer has been what the trained classicist calls “the abiding passion of my heart.”
More than 14,000 relics have been retrieved so far from an ancient cargo ship after it was salvaged from the South China Sea in late 2007, according to Chinese archaeologists.
Mozart symphonies from one of the most important periods of his composing life have been wrongly dated, a British scholar has discovered.
John Arthur believes he has made what is arguably the most important Mozart discovery of the last 30 years: that the accepted composition dates are wrong for five symphonies written by a 17- and 18-year-old Mozart in 1773 and 1774.
Light exposure plays a role in the weight of preschool children, a world-first study reveals. The researchers studied children aged three to five, from six childcare centers, measuring the children's sleep, activity and light exposure for a two week period, along with height and weight to calculate their BMI, then followed up 12-months later.
Related: Early-life exercise alters gut microbes, promotes healthy brain and metabolism
Scientists are always chasing the elusive secret to happiness: is it to do with quitting Facebook, speaking Spanish, or having sex more often? Or perhaps we can trace it to maintaining close relationships and keeping healthy? A new study has found that valuing your time over your money can help you feel more content with the hand you've been dealt.
The demo high-tech toilets from Japan are unabashedly right in the middle of the floor at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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The next frontier for the tech sector is the human brain. A new breed of neuro-hacker is finding ways to capture and manipulate brainwaves to improve health, with potential to help the severely handicapped.
A shorter working week could improve our mental and physical health and even mitigate climate change, research shows
I worked 100-hour plus weeks as a hospital doctor in the early 1990s. Those dangerous rotas left me low and unable to string a sentence together, let alone give sick people what they needed. Doctors’ crazy hours were reduced, but it seems they may be returning with the new junior doctors’ contract.
Here’s one thing to impress your friends with the next time you order a takeaway: new and exotic ways to slice a pizza.
Most of us divide a pizza using straight cuts that all meet in the middle. But what if the centre of the pizza has a topping that some people would rather avoid, while others desperately want crust for dipping?
A petition to name one of the new elements added to the periodic table “octarine”, in honour of the late Terry Pratchett’s colour of magic, has garnered more than 12,000 signatures in less than two days.
When she was three years old, a friend’s daughter announced that her real name was Joseph.
At first, her parents thought this was comical, if also slightly puzzling.
But it became alarming as the girl, Sally, insisted she was a boy and that her parents, Anna and Richard, weren’t her real parents and their home city wasn’t her real home.
At 10 p.m. Jan. 17, many television sets, including at the Omni Mount Washington Resort here, will be tuned to Animal Planet when it airs an episode of “Finding Bigfoot” about attempts last year to find the elusive man-ape creature in the Granite State.
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Several metal balls crash-landing in Vietnam have prompted investigation into their source, but the amount of debris orbiting Earth means the mystery may continue.
The Vietnamese Army arrived soon after reports of the balls' landing but quickly denied the objects were of military origin, lest frightened locals start a blame game, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
A video that apparently shows a UFO getting struck by lightning during a New Year's Eve celebration in Austria has gone viral online.
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Produce and detect gravitational fields at will using magnetic fields, control them for studying them, work with them to produce new technologies -- it sounds daring, but one physicist has proposed just that in a new article. If followed, this proposal could transform physics and shake up Einstein's theory of general relativity.