He is a man of many faces. He is best known as an influential member of Sir John Hall’s Magpie Group, which successfully waged a two-year war to unseat an entrenched board of directors at Newcastle United, where power had been passed from father to son. John Waugh was rewarded with the role of vice-chairman … Read more
About 10,000 years ago, a small population of woolly mammoths became isolated on Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast. This isolation was the result of rising sea levels, a phenomenon we are all too familiar with today. Within just two generations, the woolly mammoth population on Wrangel Island grew from just eight individuals to a … Read more
STEVE, a strange ribbon of purple and green haze discovered by citizen scientists in 2016, just got weirder. While sifting through archival data, a team of scientists discovered that the aurora-like phenomenon has a secret twin that moves in the opposite direction. Evil’s Michael Emerson on working opposite a giant, hairy demon with five eyes … Read more
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. CNN — Dinosaur means ‘terrible lizard’. The idea that the prehistoric creatures were scaly, sluggish reptiles with sprawling postures that dragged their tails through tropical swamps is deeply imprinted in the … Read more