For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses, many of them unknown to modern science. Scientists recently broke up this party after taking a look at two ice cores from this Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence […]
Continue readingPeople always think they have the weirdest pet story, but Nationwide has validated Andrea Brannen. The insurance company announced Tuesday that Brannen’s cat, Minnow, had won the agency’s annual Hambone Award. The award is named after a dog who ate an entire Thanksgiving ham while stuck in a refrigerator. Minnow was one of five animals […]
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