Flames crackle through piles of hundreds of human skulls and thick grey smoke pours into the Thai sky in a moment as spiritually significant as it is gruesome. The Lang Pacha ceremony is observed ...

April 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

A face that belonged to an "alien skull" has been revealed for the first time 1,500 years later after scientists were able to reconstruct it. Found in the 1970s in the village of Dully ...

In a release today (24), the police media division announced that groups of helmeted individuals had been responsible for many of the shootings and killings which had been increasingly carried out ...

One of the more interesting and amusing Easter eegs that has been pointed out was that there’s a skull of an alien from the movie Independence Day in the hunter’s trophy room. That aline is known as a ...

NASA scientists have been left baffled after the Perseverance rover captured a bizarre image on Mars that looks eerily like a skull perched on a hilltop. Dubbed "Skull Hill" by the team ...

Earlier this month (April 11), the rover paused at a boundary between light and dark rock outcrops where it spotted a peculiar-looking rock which scientists have nicknamed "Skull Hill".

NASA's Perseverance rover has spotted a mysterious rock on the Red Planet, which the space agency has named 'Skull Hill'. The rock was discovered in the Port Anson region, which lies on the rim ...

Illustration by ZME Science/AI-generated. At one of the world’s most elite universities, professors once toasted to empire using a human skull. For decades, Oxford academics at Worcester College ...

NASA's Perseverance rover found an unusual dark, pitted rock dubbed Skull Hill while exploring Jezero Crater's rim. The rock contrasts with lighter surrounding terrain and was likely transported ...

Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull – potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman – at formal dinners until as recently as 2015, a new book has alleged.

The book reveals that a ceremonial drinking vessel, made from a human skull, was used at one of Oxford University's colleges until 2015. This vessel, originally crafted for drinking purposes, was ...