A M3.7 earthquake hit Wednesday morning at 5:54 a.m. seven miles north-northwest of Dyersburg, Tennessee at a depth of nearly nine miles. It’s the largest earthquake to occur in the New Madrid Seismic Zone in more than a year. A 3.6 magnitude earthquake occurred in January 2018 just outside Caruthersville, Missouri. M3.7 earthquake in Tennessee
Heavy rain in South Africa has caused flooding in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Provinces. Floods and mudslides in the South African city of Durban and the wider KwaZulu-Natal province have killed at least 60 people, officials say. Further heavy rain has been forecast. Oribi Gorge in southern KwaZulu-Natal recorded 234mm of rain in
Earth’s alignment with the Sun and Uranus could lead to tremors around the planet on April 25. This is because tension in Earth’s tectonic plates could build as major celestial bodies – in this instance the Sun and Uranus – as our planet travels near to them, some earthquake conspiracy theorists claim. Eventually, the tension
SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at what could be the announcement of a brain-machine interface that could one day hook human brains up to computers on Sunday. In response to a question asking for an update on Neuralink, a neurotechnology startup he founded in 2016, Musk replied that new information would be “coming soon”. A “direct cortical interface,” according
The spoken word is a powerful tool, but not all of us have the ability to use it, either due to biology or circumstances. In such cases, technology can bridge the gap – and now that gap is looking shorter than ever, with a new algorithm that turns messages meant for your muscles into legible
Scientists have observed the clearest evidence yet of an incredibly rare and exotic theoretical phase of matter called a supersolid – and while it only lasted experimentally for a fleeting instant in the lab, it’s the longest we’ve ever glimpsed such paradoxical strangeness to exist at all. Supersolids were first theoretically predicted to exist
NASA’s InSight Mars lander may have recorded its first ‘Marsquake’ – seismic tremors, faint but unmistakable deep in the belly of the red beast. Early analysis has confirmed that the tremor did originate inside the planet, as opposed to atmospheric influences such as wind. Now seismologists are hard at work to narrow down precisely what
Apes . . . well, ape. Two gorillas at Virunga National Park in Congo have taken the Internet by storm by posing – on two feet – in a photograph with park rangers. The rangers posted a selfie on Facebook late last week showing two orphaned female gorillas, Ndakazi and Ndeze, standing tall beside them in the Senkwekwe Center
We now know what it looks like when a spacecraft lobs a bomb at an asteroid. Earlier in April, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) directed its Hayabusa2 spacecraft to toss an explosive at the Ryugu asteroid from about 1,640 feet (500 meters) above its surface. Now, JAXA has released a video of the
MH370 disappeared on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Its path was tracked via its communications with satellite 3F1, owned by British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat. Each communication was called a ‘handshake’ and the data received at these handshakes were used to work out where the
The gravitational tug of war within the solar system could wreak havoc on our planet, says an earthquake mystic. Tension in Earth’s tectonic plates could build as major celestial bodies – in this instance the Sun and Uranus – as our planet travels near to them, some earthquake conspiracy theorists claim. Eventually, the tension could
Nibiru, also known as Planet X or Wormwood, is a supposed wayward planet hellbent on destroying life on Earth as we know it. Doomsday preachers and conspiracy theorists who believe in Nibiru, bizarrely claim the planet orbits the Sun once every 3,600 years or so. Nibiru is said to be 10 times the size of
The supposed UFO or unidentified flying object was spotted over Thornton, Colorado, on April 13 this year. The UFO video was filmed and shared online by the Kuroda family who saw bizarre lights darting through a dense patch of clouds around sunset. In the video, an unusually bright source of light can be seen hovering
In 2015, NASA revealed that Earth’s oceans are rising faster than expected, and the space agency projected that we’re now “locked in” to at least 90 cm of sea level rise in the coming decades. That in itself would be enough to displace millions of people around the world, but if this trend continues
Despite there being no scientific evidence to support the notion that aliens live on the Moon, some conspiracy theorists are still convinced by the idea. And the latest image which supposedly shows a base on the surface of the Moon will do nothing to dampen enthusiasm of proponents of the alien-Moon theory. The image seems
For the first time, engineers have demonstrated how ‘bubbles’ of lighter grains can form in sand, just as they can in other fluids – even though granular materials tend towards mixing. Although individual grains of sand are solid, when you get a lot of them, they behave surprisingly like a fluid – think of
A locust outbreak in the Arabian peninsula has been spreading to Iran, threatening crops and food security in large areas of the coastal province of Hormozgan, an official said. Director of a department at Horkozgan’s agricultural organization told Tasnim that Iran is facing the worst locust attack in the past 40 years. Iran faces worst
California is notorious for its earthquakes, but a stunning new discovery reveals for the first time just how much we’ve underestimated its omnipresent earth-shaking potential. By the time you just about finish reading this story, in fact, Southern California will probably have experienced another quake – based off a new, unprecedented deep dive into
A tsunami is not expected after two small earthquakes struck within two hours of each other off the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. The first M4.6 quake struck at around 1:27 p.m. about 166 kilometres (103 miles) west of Port Alice at a depth of 3km (1.9 miles). Then at 2:44 p.m., a second M5.5
Slime mould might easily be one of the strangest life forms on our planet. They are neither plants, animals, nor fungi, but various species of complex, single-celled amoebas of the protist kingdom. Sometimes they form colonies able to grow, move, and even exhibit a strange kind of intelligence. Even without a nervous system, they
Have you ever seen a giant red jellyfish light up the night sky for a split second? If you have, you’re not imagining things. You’ve just witnessed a lightning-like electrical discharge high in the atmosphere known as a sprite. Paul Smith captured the elusive phenomenon Wednesday night as storms raged over northwest Oklahoma and
In the Hollywood blockbuster The Core, the planet’s core suddenly stops rotating, causing Earth’s magnetic field to collapse. Then bursts of deadly microwaves cook the Colosseum and melt the Golden Gate Bridge. While “nearly everything in the movie is wrong,” according to Justin Revenaugh, a seismologist from the University of Minnesota, it is true
Greenland, home to the Earth’s second largest ice sheet, has lost ice at an accelerating pace in the past several decades – a nearly sixfold increase that could contribute to future sea level rise, according to a new study based on nearly a half century of data. The findings, published Monday in the Proceedings
A strong earthquake killed eight people and trapped at least eight others in a collapsed building that housed a supermarket in a northern Philippine province, where an international airport terminal was closed due to damage, officials said. Deadly M6.1 earthquake hits the Philippines on April 22, 2019. Map via USGS Mayor Condralito dela Cruz of
We know that self-driving cars are promising to make the roads safer and give us more time to relax, but the energy-saving and pollution-cutting benefits are also important. Now a new study suggests those benefits might not be as big as we thought. The problem, according to researchers from the University of Michigan, is
So you’ve discovered an unusual winged insect preserved in amber, and it happens to have a superb set of mouth parts dangling from its head. You could name it after a president’s body part, maybe. If not David Attenborough. Again. Or just do what one researcher did with a specimen that doesn’t seem to fit
We are surrounded by alien worlds. In neighbouring star systems, Earth-like planets abound, with unusual names like Proxima b, TRAPPIST–1e, Ross–128b, and LHS–1140b. Are these strange places habitable? Are they homes for life-forms we can’t yet imagine? The jury is out. While these exoplanets all orbit within the so-called habitable aka Goldilocks zones of their
The apocalypse is said to be a future destructive end-time scenario proposed in the Bible before the return of Jesus Christ. Described in the Book of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament, this doomsday event details the apparent final destruction of the world before the second coming. Christians believe they will then face divine judgement,
A miracle is an event that does not fit natural or scientific laws, which may seem almost supernatural. What happened to Alcides Moreno on December 7, 2007, certainly seems to fit that bill. The Ecuadorian, 49, fell from the 47th floor while cleaning the windows of the Solow Tower building in Manhattan’s Upper East side of New
The Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons wrapped up in 2017, when the spacecraft was sent plunging into the gas giant to meet its end. But there’s still a lot of data from the mission to keep scientists busy. A team of scientists working with Cassini data have made a surprising discovery: Titan’s methane-filled
Bryan Thomas doesn’t want any more “wishy-washy conversations about climate change.” For four years, he has served as station chief of the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, America’s northernmost scientific outpost in its fastest-warming state. Each morning, after digging through snow to his office’s front door, Thomas checks the preliminary number on the observatory’s carbon dioxide
A beautiful spring morning at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas turned tragic Saturday when a male Sumatran tiger attacked a keeper, inflicting wounds that sent her to a hospital. Although keepers are never supposed to be in the same space as the tigers, they found themselves together in the outdoor habitat that morning for reasons
The human face is unique yet universal, mechanical yet expressive, modern yet ancient. For over 4 million years, our features have slowly morphed into what we see today in the mirror, a brief stop on the way to who knows what. From early hominins to modern Homo sapiens, a new review written by leading
A test of the emergency escape system for SpaceX’s new spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts into orbit went awry on Saturday, and an unverified video making the rounds on Twitter claims to show just how bad the anomaly was. On Saturday afternoon, SpaceX attempted a static-fire test of the emergency abort system on
A team of scientists from the UK, Germany and France suggested they could have downplayed the importance of surface ocean currents. Debris from the aircraft was carried to shore by the currents, known as Stokes drift. Analysis of objects washed ashore could have allowed the MH370 crash site to be located according to the study,
The Lyrid meteor shower Earth is entering a stream of debris from Comet Thatcher, source of the annual Lyrid meteor shower. Peak night is expected on April 21-22. The Lyrid Meteor shower peaks on April 21-22, 2019. Normally, the Lyrids produce 10 to 20 meteors per hour. This year, however, bright moonlight will overwhelm all but the brightest
In January 2015, NASA discover Kepler 438B, a planet 475 light years away. It is a similar size to Earth and distance from its Sun, in the hypothetical “goldilocks zone” – the proposed optimal distance a planet needs to be from its star in order to harbour intelligent life. This adds to the possibility of
Ancient astronaut theorists say life on Earth was seeded from Mars. They suggest this seeding on Earth may even have been a directed effort orchestrated by human-like beings that existed on the Red Planet. And the conspiracy theorists controversially claim these extraterrestrial ancestors can be found in the apocryphal texts of the Hebrew Bible, represented
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, carrying 239 people. However, it was previously involved in another incident when the plane’s wing tip was broken off in a runway collision in 2012. There has been speculation that this later caused issues unbeknownst to the
Thirteen people were confirmed dead with sixteen others sustaining varying degrees of injury when a church collapsed in South Africa’s KwaZulu Natal province. The roof of a church collapsed during mass near the eastern South African city of Durban, killing 12 women and one boy and injuring at least 16. via Twitter ( The incident
The line between human-made materials and living organisms just got more blurred. Researchers have created a new biomaterial that isn’t alive, but which exhibits three key traits for life: metabolism, self-assembly, and organisation. The new material can crawl forward like a slime mould, growing new strands from the front as the old ones at
Butterflies are like the Bear Grylls of the Amazon rainforest. Faced with a nutrient-poor environment, these beautiful creatures will drink just about anything to survive. That goes for muddy river banks, sweaty clothing, puddles of urine, and of course, the ‘tears’ of turtles. It’s hard to believe until you see it with your own
Easter Sunday, also called Pascha or Resurrection Sunday, is a religious festival which is held to mark the day on which Jesus was resurrected from the dead. The miraculous event is described in the Bible as occurring on the third day after his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary, which is today
The UFO-spotting phenomena shows no signs of slowing-down. And well-known UFO proponent Scott C Waring has this week produced yet more “proof” of alien spacecraft visiting Earth. The latest video posted to Waring’s popular ufosightingsdaily.com site purports to show an enormous UFO rising out of the Pacific Ocean. Self-titled UFOlogist Waring frequently uploads pictures and
The latest deadly outbreak of severe weather battered the East Coast throughout the day and evening Friday, killing one child as it spawned tornadoes, high winds, flash flooding and thunderstorms across Georgia, Florida, the Carolinas and Virginia, and then turned north. At least four people were killed and there have been at least 30 reports
MH370 disappeared on March 8 2014 en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. According to the Straits Times, residents described seeing a “low-flying jumbo jet” flying over houses early in the morning of March 8 to the Maldivian daily Haveeru. The locals reportedly described the aircraft as being white, with
The Pacific Ocean off the California coast is mixed up, and so are many of the animals that live there. The violet, thumbnail-size snails washing up here in Horseshoe Cove have never been seen this far north. By-the-wind sailors, a tiny relative of warm-water jellyfish, sprinkle the tideline by the dozen. And in the
Fires is going out of control due to strong winds. Several villages have almost completely burned down during steppe fires in Transbaikalia. Just on April 19, 2019, more than 240 people, including 25 children, were left homeless as the fire torched 71 houses and 21 buildings in eight settlements. In the Trans-Baikal Territory of Russia,
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