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While birds are fast asleep, their brains remain active, firing off electrical signals that can mimic those that occur while they’re awake and singing. This silent brain activity can even make the vocal muscles in their chests and throats move—similar to the way a sleeping dog’s paws might...

A search is underway after a fisherman vanished in Maryland, leaving behind an unmanned boat with the engines still running, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. State officials contacted the Coast Guard after someone reported finding a 21-foot boat “with no one on board” in the area of Anchor...

A supposed zombie grave, dating back thousands of years, was recently unearthed in Germany, shedding light on the superstitious practices of Bronze Age Europeans. The burial site was found during an archaeological excavation near the village of Oppin, located about 100 miles southwest of Berlin...

From drones to trench warfare, Ukraine is the theater where the latest military trends from around the world are played out, so it stands to reason Kyiv has allegedly launched military balloons, a throwback to the Chinese spy balloons that caused such conniptions in the United States in 2023...

A Reddit poster finds an ancient jaw in his parents' new travertine. It may be more common than most people imagine. …an absolutely fascinating post on Reddit today: “Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house”. The poster is a dentist and visited his parents house to see the...

An explosive device was chucked onto the front porch of the Satanic Temple in Salem, Mass., earning the ire of the city’s mayor, who dubbed it a “terrorist attack.” Nobody was inside the house of worship when the device landed outside the front door Monday morning around 4:15 a.m., Salem...

Officials spotted the swollen carcass Friday (April 5) while doing surveillance along Teluk (also spelled Telok) Melano Beach in Lundu, Malaysia. They notified the Sarawak Civil Defence Force (APM), a local disaster agency. While experts think the mysterious blob is likely the remnants of a...

Some conspiracy theorists appear to believe that a "massive human sacrifice" event will take place during the total solar eclipse on April 8. Without anything even approaching evidence, a fairly popular post to the r/conspiracy subreddit "explains" that they are concerned that overlaying the...

Imagine a person’s face. Now imagine that whenever you looked at that face, there was a chance it would appear distorted. That’s what life is like for a person with prosopometamorphopsia, or PMO. Relying on feedback from a 58-year-old man who has had PMO for nearly three years, researchers at...

Intact human brains 12,000 years old or more have been found in unexpected places such as shipwrecks and waterlogged graves, but it is unclear what preserved them. A study of human brains that have been naturally preserved for hundreds or thousands of years has identified 1300 cases where the...

Something looks a little funny on one California police department’s social media pages. The Murrieta Police Department is photoshopping Legos onto suspects’ faces in mugshots and arrest photos. Courtesy of the Murietta Police Department Locals have noticed this phenomenon on the police...

Surgeons in China have hosted a competition to showcase their circumcision skills, with the winning doctor being praised for his “exceptional technical expertise” and “compassionate patient care”. More than 100 of China’s most skilled surgeons took part in the three-hour-long online contest in...

A man has been banned from all Buc-ee’s locations for life after bringing his “service duck” along for a jaunt around the store. Circus performer Justin Wood and his online celebrity duck Wrinkle filmed their latest adventure at the world’s largest Buc-ee’s in Sevierville, Tennessee. A...

People who love Dungeons & Dragons put a lot of that love into what they do. Players commission artwork, purchase multiple dice sets and write fanfiction about their own characters. Dungeon Masters fill notebooks with details of their fantasy worlds, draw maps of every corner and put time into...

The myth of elephant graveyards has pervaded popular culture, and recent observations of buried Asian elephant calves may finally give that legend some credence. In the research published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa, two scientists describe five instances where elephant calves have been...

A polio survivor, who lived inside an iron lung for 70 years, has died at the age of 78. Paul Alexander, widely known as "Polio Paul", contracted the viral disease in the summer of 1952 when he was six years old and was left paralysed from the neck down. He was rushed to hospital in Texas -...

For more than fifty years the Nottingham Historical and Archaeological Society have been exploring the caves beneath Nottingham and discovering forgotten objects of the past. The cave networks beneath the city are undoubtedly of historical importance, and the society is continuing to piece...

It only takes a few hours to configure a small, commercially available drone to hunt down a target by itself, a scientist has warned. Luis Wenus, an entrepreneur and engineer, incorporated an artificial intelligence (AI) system into a small drone to chase people around "as a game," he wrote on...

A rare eleventh-century Islamic astrolabe has been discovered in the vaults of a museum in Verona, Italy. One of the oldest examples ever found and one of only a handful known in the world, the astronomical instrument appears to have been used by people in Spain, North Africa, and Italy across...

Decimal points are at least 150 years older than historians thought, according to newly unearthed notes from Venetian merchant Giovanni Bianchini, who practiced astrology in the 1440s. A consistent system of decimals wasn't fully cemented until 1593, when German mathematician Christopher...

While the word psychopath usually conjures up images of knife-wielding attackers and masked assailants for most people, not all psychopaths are serial killers. The vast majority simply blend in with the rest of society, all the while masking their cold and calculating true nature. Now, new...

An urgent electric car warning has been issued - as hackers "could attack" the National Grid with a £500 item. The Office for Product Safety and Standards says car charger company Wallbox's Copper SB charging point does not comply with cyber security laws, telling the company to stop selling it...

A religious cult leader, who convinced his followers that the world was going to end at the end of the 1970s, subjected them to increasingly twisted tortures if they doubted his word, or tried to leave the group. Roch Thériault was previously a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but...

"Other languages don’t do ‘drunkonyms’ — it’s all down to our grammar and boozing culture. Britain’s unique drinking culture and sense of humour have given the English language 546 words meaning drunk, researchers have found. Linguists have discovered that in English virtually any noun can be...

On the first new moon in February, not long after Pluto had entered Aquarius, Shima Moore stood like a priestess in flowing white robes behind a podium in the Los Angeles Ballroom at the LAX Hilton. She was there to officially open the 22nd Conscious Life Expo with a 12th dimensional stargate...

I’ve just read about this website: Whats-near.me “The website whats-near.me shows you places nearby that have their own Wikipedia article. To get started head to whats-near.me in your browser on a computer or mobile device. Click or tap the “Share location” button. Just like that you will see...

She’s had a wild life — literally. Barking, growling and walking on all fours wasn’t just a fun game of mimicking a beloved family pet for Oxana Malaya. Instead, at age 3, adopting the savage ways of animals became a way of life for the feral Ukrainian girl who was raised by stray dogs after...

The rise of farming in late Stone Age Europe was no smooth transition from hunter-gatherer lifestyles but a bloody takeover that saw nomadic populations wiped out by farmer-settlers in a few generations. In fact, twice in just a thousand years, the population of southern Scandinavia was...

A stone wall underneath the Baltic Sea may be the oldest known megastructure built by humans in Europe. It dates back about 11,000 years to the Stone Age, and was first discovered in 2021 about six miles off of Germany’s Baltic coast. The Blinkerwall is about half a mile long along the Bay of...

During excavations at a 2,500-year-old archaeological site in Puyang, China, a set of 10 polished and painted bone slips or sticks were unearthed, all of which were inscribed with an ancient Chinese numbering system known as the Ten Heavenly Stems and the Twelve Earthly Branches (or the Tiangan...

Around 2.5 million years ago, an asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica. The evidence comes from a chemical analysis of more than 100 tiny pieces of rock [contained] within the White Continent’s ice. Such events can still be enormously destructive: When an airburst occurs — typically at...

Residents of Tampa, Florida have reported hearing strange noises coming from the bay for years, and now scientists believe it may be fish mating — very loudly, according to reports. The deep, vibrating sound has been plaguing residents since at least 2021, prompting several calls to police. But...

A pigeon accused of being a Chinese spy has been cleared by police and released back into the wild. The bird was detained by officers after it was captured in May last year near a port in Mumbai. It was found with two rings tied to its legs featuring words that appeared to be Chinese...

In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer. Officers had found Weidhofer, dead and sexually assaulted, at Berkeley, California’s Tilden Regional...

Baby Donald was no ordinary child as his parents subjected him to a bizarre experiment – raising him alongside a chimpanzee and forcing them both to undergo strange tests. As a result, Donald began to display unsettling behaviour. He started biting people, crawling like a chimp and grunting for...

Two doll-like figures and an alleged three-fingered hand that were seized by customs authorities in Peru, have been dismissed as "not alien" by scientists. Forensic archaeologist Flavio Estrada, from Peru's prosecutor's office, shows a doll which was seized by authorities before it was...

Missouri police say a group of six people, including two young children, who follow a popular online spirituality influencer, disappeared from the St. Louis area on Aug. 13, 2023. The Berkeley Police Department is searching for Mikayla Thompson, 25, of St. Louis; Naaman Williams, 30, of...

Mysterious messages found in the pocket of an antique dress have finally been decoded, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Ten years ago, archaeologist and antique dress collector Sara Rivers Cofield found two crumpled pieces of paper tucked into a hidden...

The puzzling depiction of a vicious predator — either a dragon or a snake — devouring a frog on an early medieval belt buckle from the Czech Republic may be a symbol from an unknown pagan cult. The bronze belt fitting or buckle was found by a metal detectorist near the village of Lány, about 20...

A mysterious ancient artifact could help reveal the whereabouts of a star that exploded as a supernova thousands of years ago and is no longer visible. The artifact, which was found in Italy, is a stone disk featuring engravings that researchers believe form a celestial map of the night sky...

New research on ancient Mesopotamia has uncovered evidence of an ancient magnetic phenomena, providing a way to delve deeper into one of the most fascinating periods in human history. Scientists have analyzed ancient bricks from Mesopotamia and revealed just how dramatic an ancient spike in...

Billed as the “earliest dated English scientific instrument,” a 700-year old mediaeval device used to tell time sold for £126,000 (more than $150,000) at a Christie’s. One side of the device was used to tell the date of Easter Sunday. Christie's Images LTD. 2023 The object is a horary...

The After the Plague Project chose sixteen human skeletons from different sites to reconstruct the biographies of these inhabitants of medieval Cambridge in as much detail as possible. Out of the hundreds of skeletons we studied, we chose these individuals for biographical reconstruction...

Doritos has admitted that its ultra-crunchy chips aren't exactly workplace-friendly. They're far too distracting for Zoom calls and desk-side munching. Now, you could just — you know — not eat Doritos while you're on the job. Or better yet, swap them for something quieter, like a chewy granola...

A secret text has been discovered in Turkey, scattered among tens of thousands of ancient clay tablets, which were written in the time of the Hittite Empire during the second millennium BC. No one yet knows what the curious cuneiform script says, but it seems to be a long-lost language from...

A Royal Air Force jet opened fire on a mysterious UFO over Syria, an investigative filmmaker has claimed. Jeremy Corbell also revealed what he claims is the first picture of the unknown craft - and suggested the official version of the encounter is not the whole story. The alleged image of...

On Nov. 4, Tyson Raymer went deer hunting with his girlfriend on his family’s farm near Disley, Saskatchewan. Their day took a wild and gruesome turn, however, when the 24-year-old Canadian hunter spotted a 10-point whitetail buck carrying around the detached head of another 8-point. He took...

Archaeologists are scratching their heads over the 1,000-year-old remains of a woman, buried next to her husband, with her face and head hollowed out. The curious couple had been unearthed in the former royal palace of Helfta in Eisleben, in the German state of Saxony. The alleged bride, who...

Trash collectors in samurai costumes took to Tokyo's streets on Wednesday, theatrically wielding garbage tongs and flicking litter left from an evening of Halloween revelry into wicker baskets on their backs. Dressed in hats and boldly patterned black-and-white tunics, the group, known as...

In an extraordinary archaeological discovery in Freising, Germany, experts have unearthed a medieval skeleton equipped with an iron prosthetic hand. The burial, dated to the 15th century, offers compelling evidence of early prosthetic technology and medical innovation. According to Dr. Walter...