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A starving sea lion pup was rescued after being found on the side of a road near Fort Funston in San Francisco. Officials say two passerby’s spotted the pup on the edge of Skyline Boulevard headed towards Lake Merced.

The Big Bang did not mark the start of the universe, instead there was no beginning and there will be no end, scientists have suggested. The physicists say that quantum mechanics suggest that the universe could have always existed – and while a Big Bang-style explosion may have happened, it wasn’t the beginning.

Say cheese! Hubble Telescope spots smiley face in space, The grinning figure actually shows an enormous galaxy cluster. SpaceTelescope.org explains: “In the case of this ‘happy face’, the two eyes are very bright galaxies and the misleading smile lines are actually arcs caused by an effect known as strong gravitational lensing.

Scientists Figure Out Why Popcorn Goes ‘Pop’, In an unusual study published on Wednesday, engineers Emmanuel Virot and Alexandre Ponomarenko carried out experiments into what makes popcorn, well, pop.

Australia’s scorching heat wave of 2013, which triggered fierce bushfires and broke more than 100 temperature-related records, including one for the country’s hottest day ever recorded, would have been virtually impossible without climate change, a new report says.

It’s a sign spring isn’t so far away: the province’s ice-breaking machines are being used on the Red River.

The exhumed skeleton of a mother who likely died in childbirth 7,700 years ago hid a remarkable secret until a University of Saskatchewan researcher took a closer look. Bio-archeologist Angela Lieverse says she discovered the bones of twins nestled between their Siberian mother’s pelvis and upper leg.

Shark kills surfer in second attack, Tadashi Nakahara, 41, from Japan, died from blood loss after an attack that may be linked to a separate mauling which left a 35-year-old with wounds to his back and hips at a nearby beach at the weekend.

A man stumbled across one of the the world’s rarest turtles on a Devon beach – and is now keeping it in his freezer. Ben Read discovered the dead Kemp’s ridley sea turtle while out on a seaside walk.

Famous Miami Seaquarium show Orca Lolita has been added to the endangered species list after activists protested her exclusion and demanded her release. Lolita is the last known survivor of the many orcas captured from the Salish Sea in 1970. She has lived since then at the Miami Seaquarium. When Puget Sound orcas were later designated an endangered species, captive …

For a long time, people have been using words like “polarizing” and “partisan” to describe the debate over climate change. Last week, I added “brutal and dysfunctional” to the descriptive pile. But according to new research just out in Nature Climate Change, it may be even worse than that. The new study, by a group of Australian psychologists and social …