Science

King Tut’s mask damaged after beard glued back on with epoxy, the Egyptian Museum in Cairo i s one of the city’s main tourist sites, but in some areas, ancient wooden sarcophagi lay unprotected from the public, while pharaonic burial shrouds, mounted on walls, crumble from behind open panels of glass.

The discovery of hundreds of dead mackerel washed up on the shore of Cape Breton’s Bras d’Or Lakes has residents and environmentalists worried.

A rare frilled shark captured off australian coast, The fish gets its name from its six pairs of gills and is one of two remaining species dating back 80 million years.

NASA has released the largest ever image of the Andromeda Galaxy: a massive 1.5 billion-pixel image that goes into unprecedented detail.

NASA takes new images of dwarf planet Ceres, The pictures will be used by navigators to put the satellite on the correct path to planet’s orbit. “We know so much about the solar system and yet so little about dwarf planet Ceres. Now, Dawn is ready to change that,” said Marc Rayman, Dawn’s chief engineer and mission director, according to …

Lasers have yet another use. Scientists are using them to transform metals into extremely water-repellent materials without the need for temporary coatings. This could be huge for airplanes, anti-rust materials and other applications.

India’s tiger population has increased by nearly a third to 2,226, a government survey showed on Tuesday, boosting conservation efforts in the country with the biggest population of the endangered big cats.

North Carolina researchers hopeful that site is that of Lost Colony. The mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke has led to many theories over the years, but no final determination of what happened to 120 English settlers who seem to have just vanished.

Experts have warned that if a mega-thrust earthquake were to hit the Vancouver Island, like it did around 315 years ago, the Earth could rip open like a zipper and the people living along the outer coast would only have between 15 and 20 minutes to escape.

The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), also known as EAB, is an invasive insect pest from Asia that has killed millions of trees in the United States and Canada and has caused billions of dollars of damage since it was discovered in 2002. Fortunately, its damage has been limited to ash trees—or so we thought.

2014 was Earth’s hottest year on record, across all land and ocean surfaces, the average temperature was up 1.24 degrees Fahrenheit over the 20th century average, according to numbers released Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).