Scientists have discovered a double environmental breakthrough - how to capture carbon dioxide by using heat-treated plastic waste. The breakthrough came from boffins at Rice University, in the city of Houston, in the US state of Texas. Researchers James Tour, Wala Algozeeb, Paul Savas and Zhe Yuan found that when…
A rural farmer who told the judge at his trial that he can barely read and has never used a PC or a smartphone has nonetheless been jailed for cyber crimes and for spreading fake news. The incident took place in Nicaragua, which is currently being governed by President Daniel…
Experts have found Mayan pots that were placed under stalactites to collect water in a cave almost a thousand years ago and were still in the cave today. One of the pots had been broken after a tree root grew under it and crushed it, but the others were still…
Three ancient Egyptian golden tongues used by the dead to talk to Osiris on their way to the afterlife have been found in tombs believed to be 2,500 years old. The Spanish archaeological mission uncovered sarcophagi, three golden tongues hundreds of funerary figurines in the famous El Bahnasa archaeological area,…
Russia has launched a perfume that captures the scents of metals and leather used in a newly-presented fighter jet. The state-owned company Rostec (State Corporation for the Promotion of the Development, Manufacture, and Export of High Tech Products) joined forces with the Guild of Perfumers of Russia to launch the…
The bloodied corpses of black cats and chickens have been found in Mexico after they were apparently sacrificed in black magic rituals. The discovery was made by local animal rights organisation PATAS (Protegiendo al Ambiente y Transformando Animales Saludables; Protecting the Environment and Transforming Healthy Animals) in the eastern Mexican…
Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a pure gold Eye of Horus as well as various ancient religious tools that were used in daily rituals worshipping 'Hathor', the Egyptian goddess of love and fertility. The discoveries took place at the Temple of Pharaohs (Boto), in the Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, which is just…
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered this massive 2,000-year-old quarry that they say was in use at the time the Second Temple was built in Jerusalem. The Second Temple was a Jewish temple built on Temple Mount in Jerusalem between 516 BC and 70 AD that replaced Solomon's Temple, also known…
Excavations carried out in a Russian city have unearthed the remains of two dozen children and five adults executed by the Nazis. The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Kursk Region announced that that the remains of 29 people, 24 children and five adults,…
A Swiss zoo has welcomed its first ever naturally reproduced harlequin poison dart frog - the brightly coloured amphibians that got their name because Native Americans used their toxic secretions to poison the tips of blow darts. The brightly coloured frogs are listed as critically endangered and survive only in…