The types of ghost hunting gadgets used by paranormal investigators can be expensive, some devices can cost hundreds of pounds. There are a growing number of mobile phone apps that claim to be able to do the same thing as these gadgets, but at a fraction of the cost or even as a free download. The question is, can these app versions of ghost hunting tools duplicate the functionality of physical ghost hunting devices? Many…
A treasure hunter has made an astonishing ‘unexplained’ discovery deep beneath the Bermuda Triangle that he believes could provide the first evidence of an extra-terrestrial visit to earth hundreds of years ago. Explorer Darrell Miklos has been using secret maps created by his close friend and famed NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper to find shipwrecks in the Caribbean. His amazing discoveries have featured over two seasons of hit Discovery Channel docuseries Cooper’s Treasure. But in recent months his…
Sept. 5, 1982, started out as a great day for Mark Coulthurst. The skipper of a commercial fishing vessel based out of Blaine, Washington, in the United States, he had recently acquired the high tech fishing boat the Investor and that day he was at the tiny southeast Alaskan fishing village of Craig for the final days of the commercial fishing season. That evening he, his pregnant wife, Irene, both 28, along with their children Kimberly,…
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea A newly discovered fast radio burst has some unique properties that are simultaneously giving astronomers important clues into what may cause these mysterious astronomical phenomena while also calling into question one of the few things scientists thought they knew about these powerful flares, as my colleagues and I describe in a study in Nature on June 8, 2022. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are extremely…
The 36-year-old woman was found buried in the municipal cemetery of Visconde do Rio Branco. Workers noticed fresh cement and blood near the grave, and then they heard screams coming from inside, reports independent.co.uk. Finding blood and fresh cement, the gravediggers immediately called the rescue service. Arriving workers removed the victim, who, as it turned out later, was underground for about 10 hours. The woman is currently in intensive care and her finger may need…