Flying from Sydney to London in a single leap has been aviation’s white whale for decades. It’s a route so long that even the most advanced aircraft had to bow to fuel constraints (and the limits of human patience). Now, Qantas says it is almost ready to make that myth routine.Its first Airbus A350-1000ULR, the flagship of the airline’s Project Sunrise program, has completed the major assembly stages in Toulouse, […]

When photos of a strange worm began circulating on Facebook, people assumed it was another deep-sea hoax. But the creature is real. Meet Eulagisca gigantea, the Antarctic scale worm — an animal that looks like it crawled out of a Ridley Scott storyboard.A Worm That Looks Like It Came From SpaceThe Antarctic scale worm was first described back in 1939 by zoologist Charles Monro, but it rarely makes headlines outside […]