WILLS POINT, Texas — Splish-splash. The moment the sun went behind the moon, the snapping turtles all simultaneously slipped into the waters of Lake Tawakoni. Twilight painted the world. Clouds raced across the sky. Just beside the moon-covered sun sat bright Jupiter, shining in the middle of the day. Most birds and insects had grown hushed or gone completely silent.
It’s hard to fully encapsulate the feeling of a total solar eclipse; how it changes the quality of the
The killer whales of Monterey Bay have been found to use violent hunting techniques to take down their prey, new research has revealed.
A team of scientists has been studying one specific group of the fearsome animals since 2006, finding that these whales will feast on everything from sea lions and seabirds to elephant seals and grey whale calves – and use any method to take down their meal.
Their hunting techniques included headbutting, tail slapping to stun it, and
What if I told you there were ways to thicken your hair, plump your skin, lose your middle-aged spread and even banish hot flushes that all cost less than a basket of groceries at the supermarket?
I’m a doctor and best-selling author who’s made it his mission to find and analyse the very latest science on ageing at the very deepest level. Over the last three years, my team and I read more than 20,000 scientific papers to produce the
Chile’s mysterious, oblong-headed ‘Atacama skeleton’ may have once been a small class of terrestrial humanoid living in the high caves of the South American Andes, at least according to the man who has spent a decade studying the being.
This Spanish businessman and researcher who now owns the eerie, but tiny, skeletal mummy dropped his new theory on Spain’s Mitele TV network late last week.
Sensational origin stories have trailed Chile’s ‘Atacama skeleton’ ever since the six-inch-long ‘alien’ mummy was
The half-bearded behavioral economist Dan Ariely tends to preface discussions of his work—which has inquired into the mechanisms of pain, manipulation, and lies—with a reminder that he comes by both his eccentric facial hair and his academic interests honestly. He tells a version of the story in the introduction to his breezy first book, “Predictably Irrational,” a patchwork of marketing advice and cerebral self-help. One afternoon in Israel, Ariely—an “18-year-old military trainee,” according to the Times—was nearly incinerated. “An
Louise Levy, who along with hundreds of others 95 and older was part of a study to understand how their genetic makeup led to their good physical and cognitive health during extremely long lives, died on July 17 in Greenwich, Conn. She was 112.
Her daughter, Lynn Neidorf, confirmed the death, at a hospital. She said Mrs. Levy had broken a hip two months ago but, after surgery and rehabilitation that had her moving with a walker, had developed an
