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Nightmares are unpleasant, but perfectly normal – for most. However, my colleagues and I have recently discovered that they can also presage autoimmune diseases, such as lupus....

A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that they may have contributed to past pandemics....

The lithic assemblage recovered from sublevels VI-B Middle and Upper appears to be the result of Homo sapiens group settlements at Lake Eyasi during the first part of MIS5....

Runaway pets — and possibly some zoo escapees — have fueled the spread of invasive snakes across the island. It’s an environmental catastrophe in the making....

It’s very possible we’ll know more about UFOs soon. Due to a stipulation inside the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, the federal government is now required to share any and all internal reports on the subject of unidentified flying objects with the National Archives, which will then (eventually) share those reports...

Human faeces in our rivers is putting the public in danger and the risk will increase without action, the UK’s top engineers and scientists have warned in a report....

Recent years have seen increasing public attention regarding unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). Hypotheses for such phenomena tend to fall into two classes: a conventional terrestrial explanation (e.g., human-made drones), or an extraterrestrial explanation (i.e., advanced civilizations from elsewhere in the cosmos)....

Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world...

There were a cluster of cases who were migrant workers working pretty much for family-based organisations, all of whom were working with no control. So no water suppression, no real PPE....

Titled the “UAP Transparency Act,” a reference to the government’s new preferred term for UFOs of “unidentified aerial/anomalous phenomenon,” the new law introduced by Tennessee Republican Tim Burchett would require that all documents about these phenomena be declassified....

Lice are incredibly specialized to their habitats; a type that evolved to grasp human head hair wouldn’t survive among human pubic hair, for example. But before our ancestors lost their fur, those lice probably roamed all over their bodies. So, by looking at DNA to unravel the evolutionary history of lice, scientists have...

Gravitational waves are ripples in spacetime caused by violent processes in the Universe. They were predicted by Einstein back in 1916 as part of his General Theory of Relativity. It is thought the waves are generated by accelerating masses such as merging black holes, colliding neutron stars and the like. They are expected to...

It’s a scene straight out of a mystery novel: The skeletons of two unrelated men show signs of remarkably similar injuries. One is missing about one-fifth of his lower left leg, while the other is missing the same length of bone, down to the centimeter, on his right....

Snake Island was isolated from the Brazilian mainland at the end of the last ice age, trapping Earth’s only known population of highly venomous golden lancehead pit vipers on a rock in the Atlantic....

An ancient cemetery on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea contains some surprising bodies. Here, 1100 years ago, prominent warriors were cremated and buried with grave goods including amber beads, axes, and silver jewelry. Also present: the skeletons of young horses. Travelers’ tales and archaeological clues suggest a cruel...

Wooden tools rarely survive in the Paleolithic record limiting our understanding of Pleistocene hunter-gather lifeways. With 187 wooden artifacts, Schöningen 13 II-4 provides the largest assemblage worldwide introduced here for the first time in full. Wooden tools include at least 10 spears and seven throwing sticks used in...

The Habitable Zone (HZ) is where conditions are just right for liquid water on a planet’s surface....

Stretching beneath the ground near the Giza pyramid complex in Egypt lie the remains of an ancient branch of the Nile River that might once have helped ancient Egyptians to build their monuments....

Ferret Fact Service verdict: Mostly True...

Mention the Milky Way and most people will visualise a great big spiral galaxy billions of years old. It’s thought to be a galaxy that took shape billions of years after the Big Bang. Studies by astronomers have revealed that there are the echo’s of an earlier time around us. A team of astronomers from MIT have found three...

Study of the cemetery has been focused mostly on mastabas, rectangular tombs made of limestone or mud, with flat roofs. But one part of the Western Cemetery has remained mostly unexplored—a flat, vacant area with no structures....

DNA belonging to a big cat has been identified on a sheep carcass found in Cumbria - leading to speculation that some sightings of mystery creatures are panthers or pumas....

As a farmer in rural Saskatchewan, Barry Sawchuk is used to removing rocks and weeds from his fields....

In March the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was banning ongoing uses of asbestos. People might have thought, Wait—what? Wasn’t it already banned? After all, many remember asbestos—a naturally occurring, fibrous mineral that is resistant to heat and flame but is also toxic and carcinogenic—being...