Science

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who is in Vancouver to promote his new book — You Are Here: Around the World in 92 Minutes — will always be remembered for the way he inspired people through chronicling life aboard the International Space Station. The book is a compilation of 150 of the best photographs Hadfield took during his five-month mission aboard …

Did a UFO photobomb a NASA space recording that was taken earlier this month?

The world’s longest snake has given birth to six pythons without the aid of a male in what is believed to be a first for the species. An 11-year-old female reticulated python, named Thelma, gave birth to six female offspring at the Louisville Zoo in Kentucky despite not being homed with any males.

Researchers are officially debunking the myth that megalodon sharks still exist. The whale-eating monsters became extinct about 2.6 million years ago.

Wild chimps may be developing innovative strategies in order to cope with living in disturbed habitat. Scientists have found that chimps actually have begun foraging crops at night in an effort to deal with encroachment by humans.

Archaeologists have discovered a 6,000 year old temple in Ukraine that hosted regular ritual animal sacrifices, according to a new study. After a number of digs, researchers found scores of animal bones scattered among temple’s ruins and an altar where the animals may have been sacrificed.

Researchers found genes inherited from Neanderthal relatives when they studied the genes of a man whose 45,000-year-old remains were found in Siberia. Analysing the genes allowed the researchers to narrow down the date when humans and Neanderthals interbred to between 50,000 and 60,000 years ago.

50 years after the discovery of gigantic arms of an unknown dinosaur in the Gobi desert, researchers have unearthed something that may finally identify just what kind of dinosaur those arms belonged to.

The wreck of a Nazi submarine sunk during World War II has been found off the coast of North Carolina, maritime authorities announced Tuesday. U-boat 576 was found just 240 yards from another wreck: the American freight ship, Bluefields, which it torpedoed in the Battle of the Atlantic in 1942. The twin wrecks were found just 30 miles off the …

State officials said Tuesday that Asian carp DNA has been found in the Fox River in downtown Green Bay, a discovery that gives scientists the newest genetic evidence of invasive fish in the Lake Michigan basin.

An international collaboration of more than 70 scientists involved in a project called POLARBEAR say they have detected the universe’s oldest light along with evidence of the first cosmic inflation, which took place in the initial fraction of a second following the Big Bang.