A decorated Russian scientist tragically fell nearly 500 feet to his death after a hiking app allegedly led him over the edge of a cliff in Germany. The freak plunge occurred on August 12, while the man, Dr. Dmitry Fedyanin, 34 — who hails from Russia but lived in North Rhine-Westphalia — was hiking in … Read more
Amid desperate efforts to rescue the five passengers trapped aboard the Titan, a video has circulated illustrating just how deep the Titanic-bound submersible could have sunk. The unsettling animated clip is currently making waves online. The dizzying 3-D demo, created by Spanish animation company MetaBallStudios, depicts a virtual underwater seascape filled with global landmarks, as … Read more
Reviled by most, the resourceful rat may finally have something to offer us humans. The project from APOPO, a Belgian non-profit that trains animals to save lives, is fitting rats with small specialized backpacks to help emergency crews search for survivors in the event of building collapses. According to researchers on the project, their small … Read more