Delicate soft coral garden is discovered in Greenland waters 1600ft below the surface

A delicate, soft coral garden has been found near Greenland at a depth of 1,600 feet underwater — where the pressures is 50 times greater than at the surface. Experts from the UK and Greenland made the discovery — the first of its kind to have been seen in the region — using an innovative and … Read more

Two ‘super-Earths’ are discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of a bright red dwarf star

A pair of ‘super Earth’ planets orbiting ‘just within the habitable zone’ of a nearby red dwarf star half the size of the Sun have been discovered by astronomers.  The star these potentially rocky world’s orbit is called Gliese 887 – it is 11 light years away from the Earth and one of the brightest … Read more

Toxic man-made mercury pollution is discovered in the deepest part of the ocean

Toxic man-made mercury pollution has been discovered in the deepest part of the ocean, in the Marianas Trench — more than six miles below the surface.  Researchers from China and the US used submarine robots to identify mercury in the fish and crustaceans living in the deepest part of the western Pacific Ocean. Mercury enters … Read more

New prehistoric monument dating back 4,500 years is discovered in English countryside 

A hole new ‘Stonehenge’! New prehistoric monument dating back 4,500 years made up of 15ft-deep shafts in a mile-wide circle is discovered in English countryside New prehistoric shafts have been discovered around Durrington Walls henge  Coring suggests the features are Neolithic, excavated over 4,500 years ago  It is thought the shafts served as a boundary … Read more

Ancient 17-foot longboat is discovered buried in mud at the edge of Irish lake

A schoolboy who ditched his homework to take a walk along the edge of a lake got a surprise when he stumbled upon the wreck of an ancient longboat. Cathal McDonagh, from Lisacul in County Roscommon, Ireland, spotted the boat as he was wading in the shallows of Cloonacolly Lough at the back of his … Read more

First fast radio burst discovered in the Milky Way traced to a magnetar 32,616 light-years away

The first fast radio burst to be discovered in the Milky Way has been traced back to a magnetar — a neutron star with a strong magnetic field — 32,616 light-years away. Fast radio bursts are mysterious, brief pulses of energy whose origins have long been unclear but are used to probe the space across … Read more

Wreck of gunboat which JFK commanded in WWII is discovered in Harlem River 

Salvage crews have lift the wreckage of a torpedo boat, thought to have been commanded heroically by John F Kennedy, from New York City’s Harlem River.  One engine frame, two bottom parts with propellers and axles (one propeller in place, two missing) and one rudder, were excavated on June 1, while on June 3 a … Read more

Wreck of gunboat which JFK commanded in WWII is discovered in Harlem River 

Salvage crews have begun to lift the wreckage of a torpedo boat thought to have been commanded heroically by John F Kennedy in WWII from New York City’s Harlem River.  JFK’s valiant record, rescuing several of his PT 109 crew members in August 1942 after being rammed by a Japanese warship, memorialized him as a … Read more

Tiny bone discovered in the hearts of chimpanzees may be a sign of heart disease

Tiny bone discovered in the hearts of chimpanzees may be a sign of heart disease — and could even be present in some humans too Researchers from Nottingham found the bone in micro-CT scan of chimp hearts The exact purpose of the ‘os cordis’ is unclear, but it may be a product of disease It was … Read more

Three-toed dinosaur footprints discovered in China were left by a 17-foot cousin of T. rex

Three-toed dinosaur footprints discovered by rock climbers in China were made 190 million years ago by a 17-foot cousin of T. rex, a study found.  The prints — of which there are 46 — were found in march this year in the Geleshan National Forest Park in Chongqing, south-west China, in the March of this … Read more