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Scientists, including researchers from the California Academy of Sciences, place turtles in the newly named group ‘Archelosauria’ with their closest relatives: birds, crocodiles, and dinosaurs. A team of scientists has reconstructed a detailed “tree of life” for turtles. The specifics … Continue reading →

What would it look like to fly over Titan? Radar images from NASA’s robotic Cassini satellite in orbit around Saturn have been digitally compiled to simulate such a flight. Cassini has swooped past Saturn’s cloudiest moon several times since it arrived at the ringed planet in 2004. The virtual … Continue reading →

An Egyptian Handbook of Ritual Power has been deciphered revealing a series of invocations and spells. It includes love spells, exorcisms and a cure for black jaundice (a potentially fatal infection). Written in Coptic, the 20 page illustrated codex dates back around 1,300 years. Photo … Continue reading →

A small asteroid disintegrates in Earth’s atmosphere about every other week, and the distribution around the world appears to be random. That is the main message of a map released in November 2014 by NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) observation program. The new … Continue reading →

Since most of us don’t have access to the videos the NSA drones film of our every move, how about a quadcopter that makes your own?  It straps to your wrist takes off with a flick of your arm: Flies … Continue reading →

Meet Oscar, a cat with a supernatural ability to feel when people are about to die. In over 50 documented cases, Oscar, who lives in a nursing home , has curled up beside patients in their final hours, seeing them through to … Continue reading →

It is a 1961 documentary called “Ask Me, Don’t Tell Me” that was created by the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers) that shows how they brokered peace between the many ‘jacket clubs’ (as the gangs in San Francisco were … Continue reading →