The mighty king cobra — the world’s longest venomous snake — is actually four distinct species, scientists have confirmed in a new study. For 188 years, the king cobra has been represented by a single species, Ophiophagus hannah. But this widely distributed species shows huge differences in body coloration and other physical characteristics across different […]
Nearly 50 years after the cold case murder of a 19-year-old who went missing from her Illinois village, authorities have identified her killer through new DNA evidence. In March of 1979, Kathy Halle disappeared while heading to pick up her sister from a nearby shopping center in North Aurora, according to local authorities. Police initially […]
A 2023 commemorative stamp from Serbia’s postal service showing Milutin Milanković alongside illustrations of some of his scientific work. Posta Srbije Milutin Milanković, a 35-year-old Serbian scientist, was honeymooning in his family’s hometown village of Dalj when the world changed overnight. At the time, late June 1914, the town, today part of Croatia, was a Serbian […]
