Science

Has the tomb of Jesus Christ been discovered in the Jerusalem suburb of Talpiot? The Talpiot Tomb, a burial site discovered in 1980, is often believed to be where Jesus’ body was left after his death due to the writing ‘Yeshua bar Yehosef’ (‘Jesus, son of Joseph’) found written in the tomb.

Canada will help build a telescope that, when completed, will be the world’s most powerful. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced $243.5 million in funding for project on Monday evening. The investment will give Canadian astronomers access to an instrument with unprecedented power to scour the cosmos.

Pasco – Emergency personnel responded to a report of a “bee attack” Sunday in New Port Richey According to County Police Information Officer Doug Tobin, the incident involved a wild hive in a tree that may have contained 20,000 to 30,000 bees. It was unclear exactly how many of the bees made it out of the hive and stung the …

A “UNIQUE” 200-year-old skeleton discovered beneath a car park at the battlefield of Waterloo has been identified as a hunchback Hanoverian trained in the East Sussex resort of Bexhill-on-Sea. The soldier has been identified as Friedrich Brandt, 23, a member of the King’s German Legion of George III, killed by Napoleon’s troops with a musket ball between his ribs.

Mysterious bursts of energy coming from space align in a mathematical pattern, and so could be emanating from alien technology, according to scientists. Blitzars, which last only about a millisecond, have been detected by telescopes since about 2001 and have been heard ten times since. And nobody really knows where they come from, or why they happen.

The Provincial Government is pouring in $1.3 million into a preventative program towards early detection and rapid response against invasive and potentially costly mussels. The funding announcement was made Tuesday morning on the edge of Okanagan Lake in Kelowna.

Antarctica hottest day at 63.3°F drags climate change debate to forefront. The temperature was recorded at Argentina’s Esperanza Base on the northern tip of the Antarctica Peninsula. According to the Weather Underground, this peninsula is one of the fastest warming spots on Earth.

For decades, it’s been the stuff of birding legend: Each fall, fist-sized songbirds called blackpoll warblers leave the spruce forests of New England and eastern Canada and fly south across the open ocean toward South America. Now, improbable though it seems, the rumors have been proven true. A research team led by an ecologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst …

Scientists at the University of Toronto have discovered a 508 million-year-old lobster whose relative looks to have first appeared back in the waters of Canada some 250 million years before the dinosaurs first appeared. The ancient creature also looks to have been connected to both butterflies and spiders. Officials have dubbed the species Yawunik kootenayi.

Hundreds flock to see apparition of Christ after it appears following Colombian landslide. As expected, the believers considered it a holy miracle and flocked to witness it. In fact, the crowd of worshippers got so large that police had to be brought in to manage it.

Volunteers from the Vancouver Aquarium’s marine are stepping up to help hundreds of starving and sick sea lion pups washing up on the shores of California. In the past three months, more than 1,800 emaciated pups have been found, putting pressure on local rescue centres.