A massive sinkhole in Texas swallowed two cars on Sunday night, injuring one person and killing a reserve deputy, officials said. The hole, estimated to be at least 20 feet deep, opened Sunday at the scene of a sewer main rupture on the southwest side of the city. In the dark, two vehicles unwittingly drove into the hole; the first ... Read More »
A meteor exploded in the sky over Khakassia in southern Siberia, early Tuesday morning, briefly turning the dark morning sky as bright as daylight, reports the Siberian Times. In the footage released on Tuesday, the meteor can be seen flying over the town of Sayanogorsk. According to local authorities parts of it landed in the nearby valley of Babik. Some ... Read More »
Zoo keeper in viral video punching kangaroo that attacked his dog. The incident happened on June 15th in the Australian Outback, according to the video notes, but did not go viral until this weekend. According to the description, a group of hunters got together to help a young cancer patient with his last wish of catching a wild boar with ... Read More »
Ever since Mazda killed the RX-8 in 2012–and thus, the rotary-powered sports car–there’s been a bevy of hopeful rumors that the company will build a successor. Mazda helped intensify those rumors when it showed off the RX-Vision concept car last year, but now, the company’s CEO has killed hope for the RX-9. During an interview with Automotive News, Mazda chief ... Read More »
Scientists have discovered what could be the world’s very first polluted river, which was contaminated around 7,000 years ago.. The findings of the research, published in Science of the Total Environment this week, say that early pollution in the now-dry river in the Wadi Faynan region of southern Jordan was caused by the combustion of copper. The period was a ... Read More »
The federal government is proposing to designate the waters around the Scott Islands, a vital haven for seabirds off the northwest tip of Vancouver Island, as a marine national wildlife area. “We are pleased to see the new government move Canada closer to its international commitment to protect 10% of our ocean by 2020, but it’s important that quality isn’t ... Read More »
Humans are rapidly evolving to have more difficult births because of the growing use of caesarean sections over the past half-century, researchers say. Scientists estimate that between 3% and 6% of births worldwide are obstructed because the mother’s pelvis is too small for the head or shoulders. Although the caesarean section is thought to date from ancient times, it is ... Read More »
Pluto’s frozen heart is a bright, two-lobed feature on its surface that has attracted researchers ever since its discovery by the NASA New Horizons team in 2015. Of particular interest is the heart’s western lobe, informally named Sputnik Planitia, a deep basin containing three kinds of ices—frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon monoxide—and appearing opposite Charon, Pluto’s tidally locked moon. Sputnik ... Read More »
Chaotic scenes were filmed in Montreal as wintry weather caught out several buses, cars, a police car and a snow plough crashed into each other. The vehicles collided over several minutes as different cars tried to navigate the snow and ice on the Canadian roads. “Crazy morning outside the office,” Willem Shepherd wrote on Facebook earlier today. That’s an understatement. ... Read More »
Physicists have speculated that parallel universes could allow for quantum leaps and even time travel. Researchers from the Griffith University’s Center for Quantum Dynamics and the University of California came up with the Many Interacting Worlds Theory that gives a whole new perspective on the ideas underlying quantum theory. “The idea of parallel universes in quantum mechanics has been around ... Read More »
Niagara Regional Police are continuing their search for nine-year-old Layla Sabry, however they have cancelled the Amber Alert. Police say Layla Sabry and her mother Allana Haist were last seen Thursday at 6 p.m. in Welland, Ontario They say they’re continuing to treat the case as a missing person investigation, but enough time has elapsed that they’ve ended the Amber ... Read More »
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