Italy: No Vaccine, No School

Children in Italy have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove that they have received mandatory immunizations.

Parents in Italy had until 10th March to show appropriate certification, but as the 10th fell on a weekend, the (already extended) deadline was extended once again, to Monday 11th.

Plants communicate distress using their own kind of nervous system

Plants may lack brains, but they have a nervous system, of sorts. And now, plant biologists have discovered that when a leaf gets eaten, it warns other leaves by using some of the same signals as animals. The new work is starting to unravel a long-standing mystery about how different parts of a plant communicate with one another.

Like Genes, Our Microbes Pass from Parent to Child

We all know that our parents pass on heritable traits, including skin color and height, to us through their genes. Now, the Human Microbiome Project – a department of the National Institute of Health – has produced findings to suggest that our microbial genes are also transmitted vertically from our ancestors. Before we explore this exciting discovery, let’s start with some basics:

The girl who executed Nazis after seducing them in bars dies aged 92

Freddie survived the war and later married Jan Dekker, with whom she had three children. Photo / National Hannie Schaft Foundation

A World War II heroine who used her harmless appearance to gain the trust of Nazis before executing them has died in The Netherlands, aged 92.

FAA RELEASES RECORDINGS OF OREGON UFO EVENT THAT SCRAMBLED F-15S

On October 25, 2017, the FAA picked up an unidentified target moving rapidly across radar from northern California toward Portland, Ore. Several commercial pilots were able to visually confirm the object from their aircraft, stating they could not make out any identifying markings, but that the craft appeared to be entirely white and moving at high speed.

Unusual Friendship Between Wolf And Bear Documented By Finnish Photographer

Nature photographers will often come across some rather eyebrow-raising things out in the wild. Nothing is a better example of this than what Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen managed to capture – a wild bear and wolf keeping a close friendship out in the wilderness.

A List of DIA Secret UFO Study Projects has been Revealed

The US Office of Information Services has released a Defense Intelligence Agency report addressed to the Senate Committee on Armed Services that lists the titles of more than three dozen research papers funded by the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), the secret UFO program run by the Pentagon between 2007 and 2012.