A new study reveals new info about Planet 9, finds more evidence that it’s not just a myth, and tells us how we’ll finally be able to see it. Image Source: Space.com A new report says we’re closer to finally tracking down the elusive Planet 9. The new study, published by Christoph Mordasini and Esther Linder in Astronomy & Astrophysics, suggests that Planet 9 is an ice giant, smaller than Uranus and Neptune....
When Nikola Tesla died on Jan. 7, 1943, he had only the company of his pigeons and his obsessions — then the FBI came for his research. Wikimedia CommonsNikola Tesla died alone and poor. Here he is pictured at his laboratory in 1896. Throughout his life, Nikola Tesla sought to solve some of science’s greatest mysteries. The brilliant inventor had lived a remarkable life — churning out innovations like alternating-current electricity and presciently imagining a world of “wireless communication....
This wasn’t even the first time doctors had to remove “metal forceps” from a man’s urethra. Mohamed Abouelazayem et alX-ray image of tweezers stuck inside a patient’s urethra. Inserting foreign objects into one’s orifices sounds like an unnecessarily painful experiment, but a 22-year-old male patient evidently thought the risk was worth it when he stuck a pair of three-inch tweezers inside his penis where they remained for the next four years....
“You don’t want to see this sort of thing happening, it’s really sick stuff.” Purestock/Alamy A man in New South Wales, Australia who was arrested for having sex with a young female horse will be eligible for release next week. The 31-year-old man told police that the act was consensual because the filly winked at him first. Prior to the incident, staff at the horse stables in the Australian city of Grafton had installed CCTV cameras after they became suspicious of potential activity going on in the stables....
An Irish-American serial killer, Lizzie Halliday murdered at least four people in upstate New York in the 1890s. And some people even accused her of being Jack the Ripper. New York NY National Police Gazette/Wikimedia CommonsA police gazette sketch of Lizzie Halliday after her arrest in 1893. The Catskills were a peaceful place in the 1890s. Until one woman disrupted the peace by hiding bodies on her farm: the notorious Lizzie Halliday, one of America’s most deranged early serial killers....
A new Smithsonian documentary brings the truth about the U.S.’ favorite indigenous American princess to light. Library of Congress We all think we know the basic gist of the Pocahontas plot line. Boy meets girl, girl’s family and friends try to kill boy, girl saves boy by throwing herself in front of warrior’s club. Classic. But a new documentary from the Smithsonian blows that entire legend to smithereens. Everything from the story’s heartwarming climax to the main character’s name is, apparently, only the stuff of myths....
Inspired by “nanodiamonds” found on ice giants like Uranus and Neptune, this new research could help to greatly reduce plastic pollution and transform plastics in the ocean. Science Photo Library/Getty ImagesA computer illustration of nanodiamonds. Smaller than a micrometer, they have a high potential for medicine, electronics, and other industries. Scientists at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany recently blasted cheap plastic with ultrapowerful lasers, and in the process created incredibly tiny “nanodiamonds” and confirmed the existence of a new, exotic type of water....
Though almost 2,000 years old, the white marble altar is well-preserved and its mournful inscription clearly legible. Grieving for lost loved ones is a practice as old as time. This point was poignantly made by the discovery in Rome of a funerary altar for a young girl — who died 1,900 years ago at the age of 13. Workers along Via Luigi Tosti in south-central Rome made the find while digging up water pipes near the necropolis of Via Latina....
Go inside some of the most shocking presidential assassination attempts, from poisoned paper to failed hijackings to misfiring guns. Throughout American history, only four presidents have ever been assassinated: Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy. But several others have narrowly escaped presidential assassination attempts while in office. Sometimes, they survived only because of sheer luck. Other times, it took quick thinking on the part of bystanders or the president’s protectors....
“There was an almost complete turn over in the fauna. Everything…went extinct. Yet as the Aldabra rail still lives on today, something must have happened for it to have returned.” Wikimedia CommonsThe Aldabra rail went extinct when its island was submerged 136,000 years ago. It only took 20,000 years for its ancestor to return, and evolve back into the flightless Aldabra. The term “extinction” is usually permanent. When a species is wiped out, that’s almost always the end of it....
After the 1872 gubernatorial election in Louisiana, KKK members and former Confederates stormed a courthouse occupied by Black militiamen — and killed as many as 150 of them. Public DomainFollowing the Colfax Massacre, Black families in the small Louisiana town buried their dead. Over 150 died in the massacre. In 1873, the losing side of the most recent Louisiana gubernatorial election took up arms and marched on a local seat of government....
David and Louise Turpin abused their 13 children for years until one daughter managed to escape and alert police in January 2018. David and Louise Turpin‘s 13 children grew up in an environment so tightly controlled and abusive that when the media discovered what these kids had to endure to survive, they dubbed the Perris, California home a “house of horrors.” The seemingly hyperbolic moniker was unfortunately rather fitting, as the Turpin children were so confined that neighbors rarely saw them outside and noted how pale they were on the rare occasion that they did....
While they may look like toys, goldfish can lay waste to ecosystems. It all started in Australia’s Vasse River. Nearly 20 years ago, a handful of unwanted specimens were set free into a creek and made their way downstream. They soon spread, engulfing the river and tearing apart its ecosystem. Just last year, the province of Alberta, Canada launched its “Don’t Let It Loose” campaign in hopes of keeping residents from releasing that same species that wrought havoc in Australia into the wild....
A new report alleges that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been authorizing secret mass executions for more than four years. New reports state that Syrian authorities have executed as many as 13,000 civilian opposition supporters after imprisoning them in squalid conditions and subjecting them to torture since 2011. In the report, Amnesty International reveals that secret mass hangings, authorized by the administration of President Bashar al-Assad, have been occurring at Saydnaya prison, located north of Damascus, every week for more than four years....
These captivating Bob Marley photos show why the king of reggae is remembered not just as a musician, but as an icon to this day. Bob Marley was more than just a musician, he was an icon who represented a way of life that still captivates millions around the world to this day. Share Flipboard Email The man who would go on to define an entire musical movement was born on a farm in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica in 1945 to Norval Marley, a white British-Jamaican, and Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican singer....
From the angry hippo that tore its owner apart to the toddler eaten by a python, these are some of the most terrifying animal attacks of all time. Most pet owners would agree that the animals we bring into our homes often become members of the family in their own right. Unfortunately, that doesn’t apply to all animals, especially those who should have never been in the home in the first place — and who sometimes turn on their owners....
Cetacean intelligence is an object of fascination among scientists. Their social complexity and methods of communications rival, or even outmatch, our own. Before we delve into the meat of this issue, here are a couple of terms to familiarize yourself with. Cetacean: the term “Cetacean” refers to the order of marine mammals ranging from the 200-ton blue whale, to the comparatively tiny 130-pound harbor porpoise, and everything in-between. Cetacea can be divided into two categories: toothed whales, whose best known members include dolphins, porpoises, narwhals, and orcas, and baleen whales like the humpback whale, right whale, and grey whale....
The Northwood Bridge spanned 56 feet over North Dakota’s Goose River — until Monday afternoon, when a 42-ton semi truck barreled over it. Grand Forks County Sheriffs OfficeThe truck’s owner, Shane C. Olson, said he’s forgiven driver Michael Dodds and won’t be firing him for the accident. North Dakota’s Northwood Bridge spanned 56 feet over the Goose River. The wood-plank bridge was built in 1906 for $2,450 by the Fargo Bridge and Iron Co....
Bobby Joe Long raped and murdered at least ten women in mid-1980s Florida before he let one get away — and she helped bring him down. For three years, Bobby Joe Long operated as the so-called “Classified Ad Rapist” but it wouldn’t be long before he graduated from a serial rapist to a serial killer. For eight months in 1984, Bobby Joe Long kidnapped, raped, and murdered nine young women in the Tampa Bay area of Florida before inexplicably choosing to let one of them go....
Chief Standing Bear gave the pipe to attorney John Lee Webster after Webster defended him in a 1879 civil rights case. Heyn/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesChief Standing Bear circa 1899-1900. After a campaign by Nebraska politicians and descendants of Ponca Chief Standing Bear, Harvard has agreed to return a pipe tomahawk that the legendary Native American civil rights leader once gave to a lawyer as a symbol of thanks....
