A captivating moment watching baby ball pythons break through their eggs and take their first breaths. Police investigate possible link between Brown University attack and shooting of MIT professor ...

"We didn't know what we were seeing. We had attributed it to stored sperm," he said. "I guess sometimes truth is stranger than fiction." Virgin births have been observed in other reptiles before, ...

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US chemist Alice Ball was born in Seattle, Washington, on 24 July 1892. She came from a middle-class African-American family of photographers; her grandfather, James Presley Ball, was one of the first ...

It was a hundred years ago this November, and Albert Einstein was enjoying a rare moment of contentment. Days earlier, on November 25, 1915, he had taken to the stage at the Prussian Academy of ...