These new images might look like alien life forms but feature never before seen viruses on Earth.
Scientists at Max Planck Institute in Germany discovered a group of giant virus-like particles in the soil of New England that feature tentacles and star-shaped shells – much like a turtle.
Giant viruses are typically larger than most, ranging from 0.2 to 1.5 micrometers, and are found in oceans, Arctic lakes and melting permafrost.
While newly found bizarre virus-like particles may strike fear
A second structural issue at a Carowinds amusement park roller coaster in North Carolina was discovered just about a month after a major crack was discovered on the ride.
The initial crack on Carowinds’ Fury 325 giga roller coaster was discovered on a steel support beam by Jeremy Wagner, a visitor to the amusement park on June 30. He notified park officials of the crack, which was seen while people were on the ride, and it was temporarily closed.
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Astronomers announced the discovery of the first-ever ‘boomerang meteorite’ – a rock that originated from Earth, was ejected into space and later returned.
The meteorite, NWA 13188, was uncovered in the Sahara Desert, and scientists at Aix-Marseille University in France conducted a new analysis, finding it
It wasn’t as if Bei Zhenying didn’t know that her husband was unusual, or even that he had some secrets.
He was a talented computer programmer, and she fell for his inquisitive intelligence and playfulness when they met at university in Shanghai. But he was also proudly nonconformist — refusing to use social media or buy new clothes — and intensely private, disappearing into his study to do work he wouldn’t discuss.
Ms. Bei, 45, accepted those quirks as the
Andrew Buchan’s alleged affair with co-star Leila Farzad was exposed after estranged wife Amy Nuttall discovered the former Broadchurch star had purchased racy lingerie in a size that was not her own.
Buchan is understood to have left actress Nuttall, his wife of 12-years, and moved in with Oxford educated mother-of-one Farzad after growing close on the set of new BBC series Better.
Friends claim the actor informed Nuttall, best known for her former roles in Emmerdale and Downtown Abbey,
Among all the wonderful scientific achievements in 2022, astronomers have found more than 300 exoplanets – planets that are outside our solar system.
NASA confirmed in March that there are now more than 5,000 known exoplanets, but this is only a small fraction of those that exist in the Milky Way alone.
As of Thursday, this number now stands at 5,235 – up 351 from exactly a year ago – although experts have discovered new facts about already-known exoplanets too.
A new world of weird and wonderful creatures has been discovered living near deep sea volcanoes in the Indian Ocean.
Scientists from the Museums Victoria Research Institute returned from a 35-day expedition mapping the seafloor in Australia’s remote Cocos (Keeling) Islands Marine Park last week.
During their 6,800 mile (11,000 km) journey, they came face-to-face with a blind eel with gelatinous skin, and a hermaphrodite lizard fish with long sharp teeth.
They also encountered some adorable deep-sea batfishes which resemble
Remains of the first ever family of Neanderthals have been discovered in a cave in southern Siberia, Russia.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany analysed the DNA of 13 individuals from two caves in the Altai Mountains.
Individuals from the Chagyrskaya cave, who date back around 59,000 years, were found to be closely related, including a father and his teenage daughter, along with a pair of second-degree relatives.
This is the first known description of
Divers have revealed new treasures from a legendary 17th century shipwreck that have been hidden beneath the Bahamas’ shark-infested waters for 350 years.
The Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders) was a two-deck Spanish galleon ship that sank off the Little Bahama Bank in the northern Bahamas on January 4, 1656.
The majority of its treasure – an estimated 3.5 million pieces of eight – was salvaged between 1656 and the early 1990s, but recent efforts using
A newly discovered network of ‘lost’ ancient cities has been discovered in the Amazon, using lidar technology – dubbed ‘lasers in the sky’ – to peer through the tropical forest canopy.
The cities, built by the Casarabe communities between 500-1400 AD, are located in the Llanos de Mojos savannah-forest, Bolivia, and have been hidden under the thick tree canopies for centuries.
They feature an array of elaborate and intricate structures unlike any previously discovered in the region, including 16ft-high terraces
