NASA's new chief is setting up an effort to further study unidentified flying objects within his first month in office. Bill Nelson, the former Florida senator and spaceflight veteran, told CNN Business' Rachel Crane during a wide-ranging interview on Thursday that it's not clear to anyone — even in...

There is a pervasive legend in India of a secret organization that allegedly has a vast amount of advanced knowledge in their possession. Believed to have been formed over 2000 years ago, the Nine Unknown Men is widely suspected of manipulating political and societal trends in order to further the p...

The Peoria State Hospital, in Bartonville, Illinois, near the city of Peoria in Peoria County, began its life as the rather ominous-sounding Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane. It opened its doors in 1902 under the direction of a Dr. George Zeller, who was considered to be a groundbreaking pio...

Battlefields and war-zones are chaotic places, and many soldiers often recount tales of their experiences. A good war story is compelling, often fraught with excitement and danger, but sometimes, they can take a turn for the bizarre. The Pentagon recently admitted that military personnel have been e...

Video about a little talked about serial killer named Samuel Little that had a killing spree spanning 30 years.

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THE FIRST part-human, part-monkey embryo has been created by scientists in California despite ethical concerns. Researchers have grown human stem cells in monkey embryos to try and better understand how the cells communicate. https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech-old/2713352/first-human-monkey-embr...

As society gets closer to human-level AI, scientists debate what it means to exist. Imagine you undergo a procedure in which every neuron in your brain is gradually replaced by functionally-equivalent electronic components. Let’s say the replacement occurs a single neuron at a time, and that behavio...

An entire lineage of French rabbits has been doing handstands for nearly a century. The acrobatic bunnies are not so much performing a stunt as they are a product of stunted genetics, according to a paper published this week in PLOS Genetics. First discovered in a domesticated rabbit living in a Par...

A team of researchers at the University of Georgia has created a backpack equipped with AI gear aimed at replacing guide dogs and canes for the blind. Intel has published a News Byte describing the new technology on their Newsroom page. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-03-ai-equipped-backpack-dogs-c...

The seabass eggs, all 200 of them, were settled in their module and ready to go. The ground crew had counted the eggs carefully, checked each for an embryo, and sealed them tightly within a curved dish filled precisely to the brim with seawater. The countdown, and then—ignition! For two full minutes...