Portland, Maine — The city of Portland, Maine is preparing to launch a pilot program that would aim to keep panhandlers off the streets by giving them jobs. “You come to a stop sign or an intersection and you’re hoping it gets green or something like that just so you don’t have to get stuck there and have them looking …

A Danish boy who was stuck for a subject for his history homework ended up unearthing a crashed German wartime fighter plane and the bones of its pilot. The father-son duo of Klaus and Daniel Kristiansen weren’t expecting to find a ME 109 Messerschmitt plane buried underground in a field on their property in Birkelse, Denmark. Klaus Kristiansen told Danish …

A new research has raised doubts over the ability of trees to offset carbon emissions, finding that common trees can’t store as much carbon as previously thought. Published in the Nature Climate Change journal, the research found that Australia’s iconic Eucalyptus forests are likely to need additional soil nutrients in order to grow and take advantage of extra carbon dioxide …

At least 13 people were arrested during the A Day Without a Woman rally outside of Trump International Hotel and Tower in Manhattan Wednesday afternoon, police said, as New Yorkers marked International Women’s Day at events around the city. According to reports, about 1,000 people — many who were women dressed in red — congregated on Fifth Avenue outside Donald …

Historic hair samples collected from Aboriginal people show that following an initial migration 50,000 years ago, populations spread rapidly around the east and west coasts of Australia. “The mitochondrial dates reported here for Aboriginal Australian arrival and dispersal appear considerably older than recent estimates from nuclear genomic data that suggest a single ancestry population started to differentiate as recently as …

A Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue technician has died during a training exercise near Yorkton, Sask., on Wednesday. Master-Corporal Alfred Barr was a member of the 435 Transport and Rescue Squadron based in Winnipeg. “On behalf of all 17 Wing Winnipeg and the entire RCAF, I would like to express my condolences to Master-Corporal Alfred Barr’s family, friends …

A young mother in Edmonton had both of her arms broken by a man during a violent road rage incident on Tuesday. Southeast Division patrol officers responded to a report of a road rage incident near 76 Avenue and 87 Street, at approximately 6:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 7th. Police were told a 34-year-old woman was heading northbound when she …

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are calling off their divorce and trying to work on their marriage, People reports. A source told People magazine, “Jen has called off the divorce. She really wants to work things out with Ben. They are giving things another try.” It was reportedly a mutual decision. An insider said, “There is always a chance of …

Researchers at IBM and EPFL have shown for the first time that it is possible to store in and retrieve information from single-atom magnets. The breakthrough can have significant implications for the miniaturization of magnetic memory devices. As memory devices are becoming increasingly smaller, it was hypothesized whether the elementary storage unit could one day be as small as a single …

A team of scientists led by physicists at the University of Maryland-based Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have created the world’s first time crystal using a chain of atomic ions. Crystals such as ice or diamond are made of atoms arranged in a repeating pattern in space. These new time crystals have atoms follow a repeating pattern, but in time rather …

Sen. Lindsey Graham said he and Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse would dig into President Trump’s allegation on Twitter that former President Barack Obama had wiretapped Trump Tower during the election. Their letter to FBI Director James B. Comey Jr. and Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana J. Boente begins: “Congress must get to the bottom of President Trump’s recent allegation that …