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Oklahoma City Thunder re-sign Luguentz Dort ahead of Orlando restart
The Oklahoma City Thunder gave guard Luguentz Dort a multiyear contract extension, the team announced Wednesday.
How an Indian slum became an unlikely COVID-19 success story
Mass screenings and quarantines have helped contain the coronavirus in Dharavi, home to 1 million people.
Jeremy Christian sentenced to life in prison in Portland, Ore., train murders
A judge on Wednesday sentenced Jeremy Christian to spend the rest of his life in prison without parole after he was convicted in the murders of two passengers on a...
Both the famous Hope diamond and British Crown Jewel diamonds, may be "super-deep"
An analysis of the first large diamonds confirmed to come from deep under the Earth's surface supports initial predictions showing that the Smithsonian's famous Hope diamond may be "super deep,"...
Ring lost on Florida beach found in the sand 18 years later
A Georgia woman who lost her class ring on a Florida beach in 2002 has the ring back on her finger after a man with a metal detector found it...
Fossil discoveries suggest the earliest dinosaurs laid soft-shelled eggs
Eggs from the earliest dinosaurs were more like leathery turtle eggs than rigid bird eggs. Studies of fossilized embryos from two kinds of dinosaurs, one from early in dinosaur history and the other...
Resident parasites influence appearance, evolution of barn swallows
Barn swallows live almost everywhere on the planet, recognizable by their forked tail and agility in the air. Yet while they share these characteristics, these little birds often look slightly...
Queen to appear on British postage stamps
British rock band Queen will be honored with a series of Royal Mail stamps in July.
Watch: Man becomes world's oldest heli-skier ahead of 95th birthday
An Ontario man celebrated his 95th birthday a little early by setting a Guinness World Record as the world's oldest heli-skier.
Introducing a New Isotope: Mendelevium-244
A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the 17th...
New approach to extend shelf life for N95 mask
A Purdue University team has come up with an approach to extend the shelf life for an N95 mask, which is one of the pieces of personal protective equipment being used by...
Unearthing evidence of more sophisticated manufacturing in the bronze age
The part of the Middle East where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow, known in ancient times as Mesopotamia, is often called the cradle of civilization. Today the region corresponds...
Four new species of giant single-celled organisms discovered on Pacific seafloor
Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean during a joint project...
Timothee Chalamet, Eiza Gonzalez spotted kissing in Mexico
"Little Women" actor Timothée Chalamet is dating "From Dusk till Dawn: The Series" alum Eiza González following his split from Lily-Rose Depp.
Bringing burnt bones back to life using 3-D technology
Forensic scientists at the University of Portsmouth have discovered a new way of presenting fragile evidence, by reconstructing a 'jigsaw' of human bone fragments using 3-D printing.
To survive COVID-19, they became Americans in a drive-through
In the age of coronavirus, new U.S citizens couldn't become Americans the old fashioned way. With masks, they took the oath in a drive-through ceremony.
How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista
In box gum grassy woodlands, widely spaced eucalypts tower over carpets of wildflowers, lush native grasses and groves of flowering wattles. It's no wonder some early landscape paintings depicting Australian...
Macaque attack: humans try to take back Thai city from monkeys
Residents barricaded indoors, rival gang fights and no-go zones for humans. Welcome to Lopburi, an ancient Thai city overrun by monkeys super-charged on junk food, whose population is growing out...
Army suspects 'foul play' in disappearance of a second Fort Hood soldier
Investigators believe "foul play" is involved in the disappearance of a second U.S. soldier to go missing from the Fort Hood, Texas, military base in the last year, a local...
147 South Korean soldiers' remains repatriated
The remains of 147 South Korean soldiers from the Korean war were repatriated Tuesday in what the Pentagon describes as the largest repatriation of South Korean soldiers' remains.
Court: Montana family owns dinosaur fossils worth millions
Dinosaur fossils worth millions of dollars unearthed on a Montana ranch belong to the owners of the land's surface rights, not the owners of the mineral rights, a U.S. appeals...
Watch: Botched painting restoration gives Virgin Mary a cartoon face
The Spanish owner of a painting by famed artist Bartolome Esteban Murillo said he paid more than $1,300 to have it restored and the process made a mess of the...
Introducing a new isotope: Mendelevium-244
A team of scientists working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has discovered a new form of the human-made element mendelevium. The newly created isotope, mendelevium-244, is the 17th...
MLK Jr.'s daughter Bernice King speaks at Rayshard Brooks' funeral
The family and friends of Rayshard Brooks gathered at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church on Tuesday to hold a funeral for the man killed in a police-involved shooting earlier this...
Massive prehistoric circle near Stonehenge
Archaeologists have discovered a major new prehistoric monument only a short distance away from Stonehenge. Fieldwork and analysis have revealed evidence for 20 or more massive, prehistoric shafts, measuring more...
Automated laser-scanning 'hunter drone' seeks out fossils, minerals and biological targets
Science fiction came up with machine-intelligent hunter drones and they have now become science fact with a new HKU-codeveloped autonomous 'hunter drone' that seeks out targets at night using a...
A dead elephant was a feast for the entire neighborhood
Former archaeology student Ivo Verheijen made a unique discovery in Schöningen in Germany: the almost complete skeleton of an extinct Eurasian straight-tusked elephant. The remains show that our ancestors enjoyed...
Genetic study of Arabian horses challenges some common beliefs about the ancient breed
A study involving Arabian horses from 12 countries found that some populations maintained a larger degree of genetic diversity and that the breed did not contribute genetically to the modern-day...