A Cyanide Death in Pittsburgh
A promising physician's death has been attributed to a mysterious – and so far unresolved – cyanide poisoning.
— Wired
A promising physician's death has been attributed to a mysterious – and so far unresolved – cyanide poisoning.
— Wired
A person named "John Titor" started posting on the Internet one day, claiming to be from the future and predicting the end of the world.
— Pacific Standard
A British academic has gathered evidence suggesting garden was created at Nineveh, 300 miles from Babylon.
— The Guardian
Backyard bug-watchers are seeing the winged bugs known as cicadas come out of their holes in New Jersey and North Carolina after 17 years of underground slumber.
— Cosmic Log
The potentially deadly infection has been on the rise as warming climates and drought have kicked up the dust that spreads the fungus that causes the disease.
— CBS News
For two months, 11 translators of different nationalities were tucked away in an underground "bunker" near Milan.
— The Telegraph
An intense solar storm erupted from the sun on Friday in a dazzling space weather display captured by a NASA spacecraft.
— Space.com
The Arctic seas are being made rapidly more acidic by carbon-dioxide emissions, according to a new report.
— BBC News
Did an alien creature just land on Earth? Did a bolt of electricity blast some poor squirrel inside out? Just what in god’s name is that thing?
— Who Forted?
Video testimony by an anonymous alleged former CIA official was shown at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
— Open Minds
Hidden beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery that seemed to show no religious bias.
— LiveScience
NASA will provide a live video view of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower Sunday (May 5) at 9pm ET.
— Space.com
In 1903, townsfolk in Van Meter, Ia. say they saw a winged giant monster. More than a century later, the mystery remains unsolved.
— Desmoines Register
Two UFO witnesses about 1,200 miles apart seemed to describe the same triangle-shaped object in reports two hours and two time zones apart on April 27, 2013.
— Huffington Post
NASA has raised the bar for phone snaps out of the atmosphere by using smartphones installed in "nanosatellites" in low Earth orbit to send back images of the Earth.
— Gizmag
Researchers at IBM have created the world's smallest movie by manipulating single atoms on a copper surface.
— BBC News
Nobody knows what exploded over Siberia in 1908, but the discovery of the first fragments could finally solve the mystery.
— MIT Technology Review
Scientists find the brain region that controls aging - paving the way to turn back the clock.
— Mail Online
In a scene straight out of a sci-fi movie set, scientists are working on engineering plants that glow as brightly as your typical household lamp.
— Discovery News
A team of Chinese scientists has combined the highly lethal H5N1 avian influenza with the highly contagious H1N1 swine flu strain.
— Wired
Houses could be painted with a new super-material that generates electricity from sunlight and can even change color on request, following new research.
— The Telegraph
Scientists searching for signs of life beyond our solar system should keep an open mind, for planets very different than Earth.
— Space.com
The successful controlled flight of the tiny RoboBee represents a key step in the development of insect-size drones with a range of potential uses.
— Christian Science Monitor
Reported sightings of a big beast used to fill us with wonder but now, thanks to YouTube, we're attuned to duplicity.
— The Guardian
Graphologists claim that they can determine many aspects of a person’s personality and mental status from their handwriting.
— Discovery News
Heather Sellers has prosopagnosia, more commonly known as face blindness.
— New Scientist
A panel of six former members of Congress is getting an earful in Washington this week, reports George Knapp.
— 8newsnow.com
The blue and yellow UFO came within 300ft of the Airbus 320 on December 2 above Baillieston.
— STV
Anthropologist Jeff Meldrum has risked his career in pursuit of what the rest of science considers a myth.
— KPLU
You've seen the media circus about the little body, perhaps. At the middle of this enigma is Garry Nolan, at Stanford University.
— Cryptozoonews
