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The Sarnath Buddhist monastery, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, is revered as the site of the Buddha’s first discourse after his enlightment – t…

The large flash of light that left astronomers puzzled more than three years ago has yet to be explained, Hubble scientists announced recently, althou…

Ferocious big cats DO live in Britain — after being seen by Forestry Commission rangers. The official confirmation came yesterday — proving thousands …

One of life’s greatest mysteries is how it began. Scientists have pinned it down to roughly this: Some chemical reactions occurred about 4 billion…

Is it a car? Is it a plane? Actually it’s both. The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the ai…

Argentina is in the middle of a massive UFO flap, with sightings occurring virtually on a daily basis. Much of this activity centres on the town of Vi…

Chemical contamination from farm runoff has been blamed after millions of fish larvae in the Noosa River were found to have grown two heads. The disfi…

Roman soldiers defending a Middle Eastern garrison from attack nearly 2,000 years ago met the horrors of war in a most unusual place. Inside a cramped…

For centuries people have looked to the skies for answers. Is there life outside our solar system? Have UFO’s visited our planet? Because our sun is …

Anthony North: Something became obvious about my research many years ago. I’m an optimistic kind of guy, perhaps a little eccentric, but my deepest wr…