Science

Israeli archaeologists have found a stone structure in Jerusalem that they believe dates to shortly after Jesus spent his last days in the holy city, but what exactly it was used for nearly 2,000 years ago remains a mystery. The structure was found during an excavation of an ancient roadway rising from the Siloam Pool to the Temple Mount, which …

Meet Pentecopterus, a new predator from the prehistoric seas. Scientists have discovered the fossilised remains of a giant sea scorpion which lived 467 million years ago during a dig in north-east Iowa. It was one of the most powerful ocean predators of its time, with an exoskeleton “helmet” shielding its head, a sleek narrow body, and large grasping limbs for …

Ninety percent of seabirds have accidentally eaten plastic, and by the middle of this century it will almost impossible to find any that haven’t, scientists are predicting. The report Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said less than five percent of seabirds were carrying plastic in their bodies in the early 1960s, just after a boom …

Scientists have revealed the tale of the ankylosaur’s clubbed tail. Building on research she started at the University of Alberta, Victoria Arbour, now a post-doctoral scholar in North Carolina, compared ankylosaur specimens from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods to determine how the tail evolved.

Environment Canada has extended special air quality statements for many parts of central and southern Saskatchewan, as smoke from forest fires in Washington and B.C. drifts across Western Canada.

Six people are about to shut them inside a dome in Hawaii for a year, in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The project, which started at 3pm on Friday, will be the longest of its variety ever attempted and will place the volunteers under constant scrutiny as they …

A stunning wooden statue pulled from a Russian peat bog 125 years ago has been dated as being 11,000 years old after ‘sensational’ new analysis. Called the Big Shigir Idol, the mysterious statue has baffled researchers for decades due to the coded hieroglyphics covering its surface. While some have surmised that it may contain stories on the creation of the …

A Double Black Hole Powers Our Galaxy’s Closest Quasar. Researchers have spotted two central black holes raging and skating around each other in Markarian 231 (Mrk 231) – the nearest galaxy to Earth that hosts a quasar.

The University of Victoria’s Ocean Networks Canada (ONC) is about to embark on what’s expected to be its most exciting expedition. For the first time ONC will be using two ships, exploration vessel (E/V) Nautilus, on its first trip to Canada, and research vessel (R/V) Thomas G. Thompson. Both ships are outfitted with robotic vehicles that provide realtime video streams …

AN ASTOUNDING picture showing a bizarre four-mile high cone-shaped mountain rising from an otherwise flat landscape on dwarf-planet Ceres has been released by Nasa. While using its framing camera to map the dwarf planet’s surface at an orbital altitude of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers) on August 19, Dawn managed to get an up-close look at the four mile (six kilometer) …

Tropical Storm Erika brings heavy rainfall to Puerto Rico after 4 killed in Dominica. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Tropical Storm Erika soaked portions of the Leeward Islands as it moves west at 17 mph.