A multinational team of  scientists set out to settle what has oddly been a longstanding dispute in scientific circles: whether, in Moby Dick-esque fashion, sperm whales could use their heads to bash seagoing vessels. University of Queensland researcher Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou, part of an international team researching the theory, says scientific evidence about the phenomenon remains scarce.

Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis which has meant the North Pole is now moving slowly towards the UK, a new NASA study finds. According to the study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, melting ice sheets are shifting the distribution of weight on the planet so drastically that they are changing …

A police officer shot a woman armed with a hatchet Friday evening inside the Walmart store in Lake Hallie. Melissa M. Abbott, 25, originally from Black River Falls, died at 11:58 p.m. at an area hospital, according to a Lake Hallie Police Department news release sent on Saturday morning. The woman was shot twice, once in the leg and once …

The opening to Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is going to blow you away, according communications director Arne Meyer. According to Meyer, “this is probably one of the best opening sequences as well. That feeling of wanting to keep playing and wanting to know where it goes continues the entire game.” This leaves high expectations for what the …

Philippine authorities said 23 people were killed and 70 injured in the deadliest encounter between soldiers and militants in the nation’s south this year. The assault, which continued for ten-hour after the military attacked a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf rebels on the island of Basilan, also injured more than 50 soldiers. The militants were led by Isnilon Hapilon, an insurgent …

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has discovered his biological father was the former private secretary to Britain’s war-time leader Winston Churchill, he said in a statement on Friday. Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, said that the identity of his father — which he only discovered a month ago — had come as “a complete surprise,” The Independent reported on …

Tom Cruise is selling his home and moving into Scientology’s sprawling UK headquarters. According to a recent report, Tom Cruise may move there after he sells his house in London that he and Katie Holmes, his former wife, had purchased. Incidentally, Scientology was conceptualized as a new religion way back in 1954, and since then, it has been surrounded with …

NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft spotted a unique geological feature on Pluto’s landscape that resembles a giant spider. “The pattern these fractures form is like nothing else we’ve seen in the outer Solar System, and shows once again that anywhere we look on Pluto, we see something different,” says NASA geologist Oliver White.

Walking through a forest on Bawean Island, Indonesia, after a long and frustrating day in the field, Mark Rademaker came face to face one of the world’s rarest wild animals, a kind of warty pig. The Bawean warty pig is found solely on Bawean island, Indonesia. Previously, only anecdotal information existed about the Bawean warty pig’s behavior and conservation needs, …

Rotting teeth is a public health issue affecting an increasing number of Canadian children, according to a University of Calgary research paper released on Friday. The paper takes no position on the fluoridation of drinking water, only saying that while it could help, it won’t work without prevention and education. Co-author Jennifer Zwicker says, while fluoridation can be useful, it …

A man had to be rescued from Morro Rock on Thursday after climbing it to propose to his girlfriend. Morro Bay Fire Chief Steve Knuckles says a witness heard the man yelling for help at about 8:45 a.m. and called rescue crews. The man was reportedly stranded on a very small piece of rock about three-quarters of the way down.