Iranian hackers brought down micro-blogging website Twitter for around two hours this morning. The attack took place at around 6am and left the site's estimated 30million users unable to send messages or post 'tweets'. The main Twitter homepage had been replaced with a black and red screen featuring an image of a green flag. The page carried the message: 'This [...]

This incredible picture shows a huge meteor hurtling to Earth during the annual Geminid meteor shower. Astro-photogrpaher Wally Pacholk captured this amazing shot in the Mojave Desert area near Victorville under a dark and almost clear sky. The annual cosmic fireworks have been growing in intensity in recent decades with up to 160 meteors visible per hour under optimal conditions. [...]

We all know December as a month of holidays. But we should all know it is a time when many ghosts return to check up on family and how life and the world had managed and changed without them. Many ghost sightings and encounters with strange paranormal or supernatural occurrences seem to happen in this month. But all seem to [...]

Claims of telepathy, ESP and other psi phenomena are a mainstay of popular culture but taboo in neuroscience research circles. Fortunately, Dr. Michael Persinger of Canada’s Laurentian University has never been afraid to venture where other researchers fear to go. In the 1980′s Persinger made headlines with his “God Helmet”, a device that stimulates temporal lobes with a weak magnetic [...]

At about 6 p.m. on August 6, two students walked out of their library in Jilin University and looked up. “Look! A flying dragon appears in the sky!” A student named Li captured an image of the dragon on his picture-phone, providing the second instance of photo documentation of a dragon flying over China so far this summer. “When I [...]

A Chilean news station showed pictures of a tragic car crash that occurred on Router A-16. Known as “The Cursed Road” by locals, the images of the crash showed something peculiar. In one of the images, the photographer claims to have captured the image of one of the deceased

The discovery of a fossilised skeleton that has become a “central character in the story of human evolution” has been named the science breakthrough of 2009. The 4.4 million year old creature, that may be a human ancestor, was first described in a series of papers in the journal Science in October. It has now been recognised by the journal's [...]

Scientists who mapped one of the most enigmatic mountain ranges on Earth have given a first glimpse of their data. An international team spent two months in 2008/9 surveying the Gamburtsevs in Antarctica – a series of peaks totally buried under the ice cap. The group has told a major conference in the US that the hidden mountains are more [...]

Hunt may well be over for mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of mass of universe. For 80 years, it has eluded the finest minds in science. But tonight it appeared that the hunt may be over for dark matter, the mysterious and invisible substance that accounts for three-quarters of the mass of the universe. In a series [...]

Concerns that unknown creatures reigning terror on villagers are linked to witchcraft have deepened after footprint studies by the nature conservation left more questions than answers about the identity of the creatures. Villagers of Okaku in the Oshana Region have on several occasions reported that mysterious creatures were depriving them of their livelihood by feeding on their goats and chickens. [...]