NatureNeanderthal vision focus gives clues to extinctionNeanderthals lived at high latitudes. There is less light than in the tropics, which may explain their larger visual cortices. People living at high latitudes today also have larger eyeballs and visual cortices.  Meteorite hits central Russia, more than 500 people hurtA loud noise, resembling an explosion, rang out at around 9.20 a.m. (12:20 a.m. ET). The shockwave could be felt in apartment buildings in the industrial city’s center. Snowstorm batters north-east US and Atlantic CanadaMassachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Connecticut and Maine are all on an emergency footing, with millions of residents being warned to stay indoors. A Cat’s 200-Mile Trek Home Leaves Scientists Guessing
Nobody knows how it happened: an indoor housecat who got lost on a family excursion managing, after two months and about 200 miles, to return to her hometown. Even scientists are baffled by how Holly, a 4-year-old tortoiseshell who in early November became separated from Jacob and Bonnie Richter at an R.V. rally in Daytona Beach, Fla., appeared on New Year’s Eve — staggering, weak and emaciated — in a backyard about a mile from the Richters’ house in West Palm Beach. End of the World: Top 10 Doomsday predictions that didn’t come true (PHOTOS)
Though the Mayan calendar had scheduled an impending apocalypse for this year, 2012, the end of the world has actually been on its way for centuries. We take a look at the 10 best (and strangest) Doomsday predictions that never happened. ConCourt gets urgent ‘end-of-world’ application from Soweto man
The Constitutional Court has received an “extremely urgent court application” for the appointment of an “investigative task team” to prepare for the end of the world on December 21, according to a report on Wednesday. South Pacific Sandy Island ‘proven not to exist’
A South Pacific island, shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Earth and Google Maps, does not exist, Australian scientists say. The supposedly sizeable strip of land, named Sandy Island on Google maps, was positioned midway between Australia and French-governed New Caledonia. Aid groups readying for unprecedented damage
Hurricane Sandy could affect as many as 60 million people across the eastern U.S. according to power officials. While some will only loose power, the strong winds, storm surge and pelting rain may cause unprecedented damage for others. Eastern US gets back on its feet
Businesses and services in the north-eastern US are expected to start re-opening on Wednesday after two days of closure forced by storm Sandy. Women smokers who quit by 30 ‘evade earlier death risks’
Women who give up smoking by the age of 30 will almost completely avoid the risks of dying early from tobacco-related diseases, according to a study of more than a million women in the UK.
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