Recent radar scans revealed as many as 7,000 bodies buried on the grounds of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where a formal state mental institution once stood.
"Dragon skin" had not been seen in Antarctica since 2007, according to researchers.
An estimated 7,000 bodies are thought to be buried under The University of Mississippi Medical Center, according to radar scans of the campus grounds.
Watermelons may be mostly water but these refreshing fruits are soaked with nutrients.
A nuclear-waste tunnel collapse might have released radioactive substances, such as plutonium, into the area near the Hanford nuclear facility, which could be dangerous for the people nearby.
Space.com caught up with Mr. Eclipse to hear about his very first eclipse, his crucial tips for eclipse-viewing newcomers and — most importantly — what he'll do if it's looking like rain before the Aug. 21 event.
New research links a striking red waterfall in Antarctica to underground brines.
What's as long as a pickup truck, as heavy as a white rhinoceros and as weird-looking as Zuul, the monster from the 1984 "Ghostbusters" movie? A newfound species of ankylosaurus.
An armored dinosaur known as an ankylosaurus looked so much like Zuul from the 1984 movie "Ghostbusters" that paleontologists made the monster the dinosaur's namesake.
Images of North Korea snapped from NASA satellites reveal interesting details about the country, including the stark difference between the GDP of South and North Korea, and its economic and other development.
A new study of Io’s lava lake Loki Patera suggests that overturning lava explains the temperature changes observed by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory in Arizona.
Celebratory fireworks at a wedding led to the rupturing of both of a man’s eardrums, according to a brief report of the man's case.
After death, a Jurassic ammonite was dragged 28 feet (8.5 meters) by a gentle sea current.
Researchers looked at what happens in the brain when the process of gathering information and absorbing it is interrupted.
The Mississippi State Insane Hospital admitted about 35,000 patients between 1855 and 1935, and about 9,000 of them died there.
Adults with ADHD may be safer behind the wheel if they've taken their meds, a new study finds.
The redesigned battery could ease people's "range anxiety" when it comes to electric cars.
A 28-foot-long (8.5 meters) drag mark ends with the fossil of the animal that made it.
Over the past 50 years, 39 of the park's glaciers have shrunk dramatically, some by as much as 85 percent.
A cache of artillery shells, shrapnel and other military artifacts unearthed in Israel reveal the history of a World War I battle between the Turks and the British.
President Donald Trump reportedly eschews exercise because he believes it drains the body's "finite" energy resources, but experts say this argument is flawed.
