How big they are: Can range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to over 30 feet (9 meters) There are about 4,000 different snake species in the world today. They occupy a wide range of habitats ...

After the second outbreak of the current mystery disease began in the village of Bomate on February 9, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo's ...

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A yet-unidentified illness has killed 53 people and potentially infected hundreds more in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The World Health Organization is investigating the outbreak.

All it takes is a captivating Book 1, and they're off and running. Fantasy, mystery, science fiction, school stories -- whatever! Some are trilogies, others are multi-volume sagas that will keep tween ...

Anthropogenic signals are a huge problem in radio astronomy. In the process of solving a curious mystery, US researchers have now come up with a technique that could better filter our own radio noise ...

Scientists have taken a major leap forward in understanding the formation of neutron stars, thanks to new 3D supernova simulations conducted by a team of astrophysicists. Led by Associate Professor ...

This remains an extraordinary mystery given there used to be hundreds of thousands of blue whales before whaling started -- even today blue whales number around 10,000 to 25,000 -- and they give ...

Country singer Leland Martin is 68. Actor James Wilby (``Gosford Park'') is 67. Bassist Sebastian Steinberg (Soul Coughing) is 66. Actor Joel Hodgson (``Mystery Science Theater 3000'') is 65. Singer ...

"This is a great example of how investment in 'basic science' and investigation of ... At the heart of the mystery that intrigued the researchers lies a key viral gene that encodes for a protein ...

A scientific mystery that took 10 years to solve was cracked in two days by Google’s artificial intelligence. The tech giant’s latest AI development is dubbed “co-scientist” and is ...

NASA has warned that a ‘city-killer’ asteroid has an increased risk of hitting Earth, with '100 million people in the blast zone'. Asteroid 2024YR4 is hurtling through the galaxy, travelling ...