The second-known person to naturally cure their HIV infection has been discovered by scientists in Argentina, raising hopes for a future cure. The patient, an Argentinian woman in her thirties from the city of Esperanza, was found to have no disease-causing or ‘intact’ virus, eight years after being diagnosed. A group of Harvard-based scientists announced … Read more
Mysterious mass grave discovered in Croatia that contains skeletons of unrelated men, women and children who were slaughtered 6,200 years ago Forty-one skeletons were found in a small mass grave in Potočani, Croatia Experts found the people are from the same society but were largely unrelated Bones were dated back to the Copper Age Lasinja … Read more
Wreckage of plane that nosedived into a Scottish mountain while carrying 20 passengers 78 years ago is discovered by hikers – and it even features graffiti from a visitor in 1972 Pamela Aitken, 39, and her friend Kathryn Gaffney, 53, found a plane wreckage They were walking on Irish Law mountain in North Ayrshire, Scotland, … Read more
Oldest meteorite ever found: 4.6 BILLION-year-old space rock discovered in the Sahara could shed light on the early solar system Experts analyzed a meteorite discovered last year in the Sahara desert The rock weighs 70 pounds and is tan in color with green spots throughout It consists mostly of volcanic rock, but also silicon dioxide that … Read more
Chunks of a meteorite which caused an enormous fireball in the skies above south-west England last month have been recovered by scientists. The largest is a 300g (10.5oz) lump which was found on a private driveway in the sleepy village of Winchcombe in the Cotswolds after being snared by Earth’s orbit. Other, smaller pieces were also … Read more
Police investigating the disappearance of missing Sarah Everard have cordoned off parts of Clapham Common after a white hat was discovered. The search for Sarah continues into its fifth day with Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime Command leading the probe after the marketing manager vanished while walking home to Brixton, south London, on Wednesday. The white … Read more
The German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, came just one week after Nazi Germany had signed a neutrality pact with the Soviet Union. It meant that Poland ended up being bombarded from all sides by two vastly more powerful hostile powers – with Russian troops invading the country on September 17. Hitler’s decision … Read more
A ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet with a surface temperature slightly cooler than Venus may have an atmosphere able to host alien life, according to a new study. Astronomers from the Max-Planck Institute used different methods of observation to discover the alien world orbiting a nearby red dwarf dwarf star 26 light years away. Gliese 486b is the … Read more
A 13-inch-long copper spearhead found by a metal detectorist on a beach in Jersey is more than 3,000 years old, experts say. The ‘rare and complete’ spearhead, which still has remnants of the wooden shaft still attached, dates back to the late Bronze Age, somewhere between 1207 and 1004 BC. It was found near Gorey … Read more
Did dogs follow humans to the Americas? Bone fragment dating back 10,150 years is discovered in Alaska suggesting pups may have migrated alongside man A chunk of bone from a dog’s femur was studied by the University at Buffalo It reveals the animal died around 10,150 years ago in what is now Alaska Relative of dogs that … Read more