The spread of a deadly new virus is accelerating, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned, after holding a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year public holiday.
— BBC News

A Boeing satellite is being hastily moved into "graveyard orbit" following a devastating "anomaly" that turned its batteries into bombs.
— LiveScience

A savage meat-eating dinosaur the size of a bus that slashed its prey to death has been recognized as a new species 30 years after its remains were dug up in Utah.
— Mail Online

A 76-year-old woman cheated death Friday when she survived accidentally falling out of her Upper East Side apartment window and plummeting seven stories, according to cops.
— New York Post

A hypothetical timepiece called the Doomsday Clock measures our nearness to Armageddon - by nuclear weapons, climate change and other global threats.
— Space.com

One of Britain's strangest UFO cases began when two policemen spotted something very unusual in the sky.
— Unexplained Mysteries

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft has witnessed the remains of an ancient star thirstily draining material from its giant celestial companion.
— RT

Leading US health experts predicted a coronavirus could kill tens of millions of people in a chilling warning three months before the deadly outbreak in China.
— Mail Online

A new study suggests that some of the victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. suffered a much more gruesome death than others.
— FOX News

Chocolate chip cookies have become the first food to be baked in space in a first-of-its-kind experiment.
— BBC News

Nimitz videos are still taken 'pretty darned seriously.'
— military.com

Civil War-era artifact was used to ward of evil spirits.
— WTVR.com

Funny and beautiful images.
— deMilked

Bizarre story with a happier ending than the Salem trials.
— Anomalien

Looking in the wrong places will get us nowhere.
— LiveScience

It may be a concept, but it has some good ideas to consider.
— Fast Company

A man who died during the historic eruption was found with an exploded skull and glass-like brain tissue.
— LiveScience

Understanding the ecological impact of hundreds of dead feral hogs.
— Atlas Obscura

The tiny worm can enter the human body, swim through along blood vessels and hook up to neurons.
— Mysterious Universe

Why build Moon and Mars bases out of metal when we could grow them from mushrooms?
— Stranger Dimensions

The Cardiff University team discovered a method of killing prostate, breast, lung and other cancers in lab tests.
— BBC News

In the new season, Aidan Gillen returns as Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the astrophysicist and professor who served as Blue Book's advisor.
— Space.com

Day is the best-selling author of six books about intuition and using what she believes is everyone’s innate, mental skill.
— Forbes.com

The tiny animal born in Rajasthan, India, is already gaining celebrity status because of its hauntingly human-like face.
— Daily Star

A 70-kilometer-wide (43-mile) impact structure in the Australian Outback has been dated to 2.2 billion years old.
— Gizmodo

'Representatives from the military and the FBI met for a closed-door briefing on Jan. 6.'
— Daily Beast

'oxygen is the most abundant element in lunar regolith [dirt.]'
— New Atlas

A successful test of the abort and rescue system.
— Science Alert

Coffee has many benefits, and some issues for those who indulge too much.
— The Conversation

Probably obvious, but internet addiction is bad for concentration.
— Neuroscience News