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Archaeologists have discovered ancient houses as well as precious artifacts and jewels from a buried kingdom, beneath the volcanic ash in Indonesia.
The excavated remains were found on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa near the foot of the Tambora volcano known for its largest eruption in recorded history.
“Based on the unearthed remains, particularly the many bronze objects and jewels, …

Observations from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system’s population of potentially hazardous asteroids. The results reveal new information about their total numbers, origins and the possible dangers they may pose.
Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset of the larger group of near-Earth asteroids. The PHAs have the …

By combining the light of three powerful infrared telescopes, an international research team has observed the active accretion phase of a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy tens of millions of light years away, a method that has yielded an unprecedented amount of data for such observations. The resolution at which they were able to observe this …

A 1,400-year-old olive press was discovered at an archaeological dig last week in the city of Modiin. The press was used to produce olive oil and is the most complete and elaborate ancient object found to date in the area.
The press was discovered by archaeologists employed by the Israel Antiquities Authority near the Kaiser neighborhood, which is slated for …

Due to the large size of the olive trees in the Mediterranean region, many experts have claimed that they are millennia old but “there had never been a scientific study to verify this,” as explained to SINC by the ecologist Bernat Claramunt from the Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF).
A team from this centre has now analysed …

Stories about the fictional planet Nibiru and predictions of doomsday in December 2012 have blossomed on the Internet. There are more than 300 books listed on Amazon.com dealing with the 2012 doomsday. “Ask an Astrobiologist” has received thousands of questions about Nibiru and 2012, with more than 500 answers posted.
Following is a list of the most popular “Twenty Questions” …

The Federal Aviation Administration found no evidence of unidentified aircraft or objects in its inquiry into a corporate jet pilot’s claim he saw a possible remote-controlled aircraft flying near his jet over Denver this week, the agency said Thursday.
In reaching its conclusion, the FAA reviewed radar and audio communications, and no other pilots reported seeing an unidentified aircraft, acording to …

Date of sighting: May 01, 2012
Location of sighting: Amazon Rainforest
YouTube entry notes: “On May 1, 2012, Vance Nelson and Harry Nibourg were on site in the Amazon Rainforest documenting authentic pictographs said by secular archaeologists to be over 5,000 years old. Amazingly, one of the pictographs showed nine warriors hunting what appears to be a dinosaur.
Did dinosaurs live recently …

A 43-year-old woman is undergoing surgery after two rocks that she collected at a South County beach ignited in the pocket of her shorts, officials from Orange County Fire Authority said.
The incident happened about 3:30 p.m. Saturday when the woman was standing in her kitchen after returning from an outing to Trestles Beach. She had been home for about an …

Magnús Skarphéðinsson, principal of the Icelandic Elf School, has expressed his concern that Independence Party MP Árni Johnsen may be subject to an accident after relocating a boulder allegedly inhabited by elves to his home in the Westman Islands.
However, Árni believes the boulder and its hidden residents saved his life when he was in a car accident a couple of …