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While the pigs weren’t reanimated by any means, they did have significant cell function in their brains restored hours after they died. Wikimedia CommonsProessor Sestan and his team tested on a total of 300 pigs and ultimately used 32 pig brains for the final experiment. When the heart stops pumping oxygenated blood into the brain, the body begins to die. This is true for all mammals including pigs. That’s why Yale University professor Nenad Sestan’s recent success in restoring partial brain function in dead pigs’ brains was such a startling achievement....

“It is factually, so far as we have been able to establish, without legal precedent in criminal law.” On Wednesday, a British surgeon pleaded guilty to two counts related to him marking his initials on patients’ livers during surgery. 53-year-old consultant surgeon Dr. Simon Bramhall has admitted that he used a surgical laser to brand his initials, “SB,” onto the livers of two people undergoing organ transplant operations, reported The Telegraph....

“Little Boy” weighed as much as a car and exploded with the force of 15,000 tons of TNT over Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing 80,000 people almost instantly. When Nazi Germany surrendered in May 1945, the only Axis power the Allies had left to defeat was the Japanese. America decided to accomplish that goal by way of two atomic bombs, both of which killed tens of thousands of Japanese citizens in an instant....

See photos of the doomed German airship before, during, and after the Hindenburg disaster on May 6, 1937, in New Jersey. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 1 of 24The Hindenburg in its hangar on May 11, 1936.New York Daily News Archive/Getty Images 2 of 24Another image of the Hindenburg in hangar, this time on August 9, 1936....

A stunning peak at the most beautiful and astounding images of space in this All That Is Interesting photograph gallery. Messier 31 is a large galaxy in Andromeda which is the most massive in the local group of galaxies that includes our Milky Way. This image is from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer. NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology This ‘bubbly nebula’ is NGC 1501, a complex planetary nebula located in the large but faint constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), was first discovered by William Herschel in 1787....

Mary Anne MacLeod Trump went from being a working-class Scottish immigrant to a New York City socialite who gave birth to the 45th President of the United States. The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesMary Anne MacLeod Trump and her husband attending Donald Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples on Dec. 20, 1993. As a poor immigrant from Scotland, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump probably never could’ve imagined that her son would one day become the President of the United States....

“The ice is receding, and polar bears (are looking) for new ways to survive and the easiest way is coming to people.” Alina Ukolova/APThe polar bear has been disoriented since its arrival and appears emaciated. In February, the Arctic settlement of Novaya Zemlya in northern Russia experienced an invasion unlike any other. Polar bears, driven out of their usual territory farther to the north, had encroached on the remote encampment....

An Arkansas electrician found a two-headed snake while performing a routine inspection on a house. An electrical worker found more than he bargained for during a routine home inspection on Wednesday. Rodney Kelso was inspecting a home in Jonesboro, Arkansas when he noticed a snake sunning itself outside. Upon closer inspection, he realized that the snake had two heads. Young donned a pair of gloves before he put the two-headed timber rattlesnake, nicknamed “Deuce,” in a box and took it to Crowley’s Ridge Nature Center in Jonesboro....

Source: Gizmodo As one of the world’s most densely packed places, Hong Kong is a vertical city. Apartments and offices stretch toward the sky, and the city of 7 million is three-times more dense than New York with nearly 7,000 residents per square kilometer. In its densest district, Kwun Tong, 57,000 people crowd every square kilometer of land. Argyle Street, an uber-packed part of Hong Kong. Source: Yanidel This density means that housing space comes at a premium....

Go inside the 20th century’s most calamitous conflict, from Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland to America’s atomic bombings of Japan. Bettmann/Getty ImagesAmerican troops march down the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France. 1944. Today, most people know the basic facts of World War II. But the six-year conflict was far more complicated than many realize. Below, read through 27 World War II facts that cover everything from how the war began, to who fought in it, to how it finally came to a bloody end....

From razing New York City to torching Louisiana plantations, these slave rebellions paved the way for the Civil War, and the eventual abolition of slavery. Scenes from Nat Turner’s 1831 Rebellion — this rebellion is well known, but many lesser-known slave rebellions preceded it. Image Source: Library of Congress Over 300 years ago, a group of black slaves staged an uprising in New York City. The amount of insurrectionists is unclear, but on April 6, 1712, they set fire to a building on Maiden Lane, near Broadway....

Side-by-side with the real people who inspired their roles, it’s clear which biopic stars were perfectly cast - and which were total duds. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: 19 Side-By-Side Portraits Of Famous People From History And Their Modern Descendants 15 Fictional Characters You Didn’t Know Were Based On Real People The Tragic True Stories Behind Some Of Hollywood’s Biggest Child Stars...

Chicken hatcheries are traditionally busiest in the weeks preceding Easter, during stock market downturns, and presidential election years. Wikimedia CommonsHatcheries are busiest in the weeks before Easter, during stock market downturns, and presidential election years. The whole world has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, with its distressing consequences initially leading Americans to purchase as much toilet paper as possible. According to The New York Times, baby chickens have become the next panic-buy — with countless hatcheries already sold out....

In gritty 1970s New York, an unidentified serial killer known as “Charlie Chop-Off” targeted young Black and Puerto Rican boys and viciously mutilated their genitals — and he was never caught. Public domainA 1972 police sketch of Charlie Chop-Off. It sounds like an urban legend: a serial killer that targets young boys and severs their genitals. But the nightmarish case of “Charlie Chop-Off” was very real and remains chillingly unsolved....

These photos reveal what life was like inside fascist Italy in the blood-soaked years both before and during World War II. Like this gallery?Share it: Share Flipboard Email And if you liked this post, be sure to check out these popular posts: Inside Benito Mussolini’s Death And His Panicked Final Hours 47 Photos Of Queen Elizabeth II Way Before She Looked Like Your Grandmother What Jewish Life Looked Like In Europe Before The Holocaust...

Last week, the population of Britain was freaking out over a pair of pants — a pair of $1,250, wide-legged, brown leather pants. And Prime Minister Theresa May had the misfortune of wearing them. The outcry came so quickly and spread so widely that it even received a name: “Trousergate.” “I don’t have leather trousers,” former British Education Secretary Nicky Morgan chided. “I don’t think I’ve ever spent that much on anything, apart from my wedding dress....

After a fateful accident at Japan’s Tokaimura nuclear power plant in 1999, Hisashi Ouchi lost most of his skin and began crying blood before his agony finally ended. Peaked Interest/YouTubeA photo of Hisashi Ouchi, the most irradiated human in history. When Hisashi Ouchi arrived at the University of Tokyo Hospital after being exposed to the highest level of radiation of any human in history, doctors were stunned. The 35-year-old nuclear power plant technician had almost zero white blood cells and thus no immune system....

“For years, no one believed him… The police, doctors, nurses, and even his family told him he wasn’t telling the truth, that he must be a closet-drinker.” PixabayA recent study revealed a man who suffered from unwanted drunkenness was diagnosed with auto-brewery syndrome. A strange disease called auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), also dubbed “drunkenness disease,” was recently reported in a case study conducted by researchers from Richmond University Medical Center. Auto-brewery syndrome is a bizarre condition that causes someone to become drunk without consuming any alcohol....

After the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts, the local Indigenous population fell from 30,000 to just 300 — within a decade. Library of CongressA depiction of the “first” Thanksgiving in 1621 — as disease had already ravaged the land. While exact figures remain debated, historians estimate that 18 million Indigenous people inhabited the North American continent before the 16th century. But within years of European settlers arriving, these populations would be decimated by up to 90 percent, killed by diseases that colonists brought with them to the New World....

Turns out dolphins make for far more than good children’s movie protagonists. Brien Aho/U.S. Navy/Getty ImagesHefi, a bottlenose dolphin, receives a routine medical evaluation on the well deck aboard USS Gunston Hall. The Cold War took paranoia and human ingenuity to new heights — so much so that at the conflict’s 1960s peak the U.S. Navy looked to dolphins to beat the Commies. Indeed, over the course of the Cold War the Navy captured live dolphins to train for military purposes, and they’re still around today....