The deepest dive recorded by the free-diving Bajau Laut people of Southeast Asia was to an impressive 79 metres (259 feet), and the longest time spent underwater by them was just over three minutes. Although the Bajau do not dive to these depths or for this length of time during their day-to-day fishing, they
Month: April 2018
Hundreds of homes were damaged in Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya state, India on April 15, 2018 after hailstones the size of cricket balls accompanied by heavy rain and thunderstorm hit the region. Local media reported around 700 houses were damaged in Shangpung alone. Rain accompanied by small hailstones also affected the Seng Khihlang Lympung at
Thousands of south Pacific islanders at the mercy of an active volcano will be permanently relocated by the end of May, the Vanuatu government has said. Ash as deep as 30cm has already settled on many parts of the island, and people are experiencing breathing difficulties, skin reactions and illnesses such as chest infections as
Iwo-yama volcano also known as Mount Io and Mount Ioyama, located on the Ebino Highland and a part of Kirishimayama volcano group in Japan’s Kyushu, erupted at 06:39 UTC (15:39 JST) on April 19, 2018 for the first time since 1768. The volcano ejected ash high into the air, forcing the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) to
One of the world’s wildest mountain drives, Japan’s Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route has reopened to tourists for another season. And the route’s biggest attraction is the unbelievable Snow Wall Walk – an otherworldly 17-meter-deep snow corridor – located along the pathway in Yuki no Otani (or Great Valley of Snow). Stretching across the Toyama and
A month after a huge crack was reported in Kenya’s Rift Valley, another two-kilometre fault line has cracked open on Monday on the outskirts of Naivasha town in Nakuru County where farms have been swallowed. At least 16 families have moved to safe grounds as several acres of crops were destroyed by the crack that
Observations and measurements of the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō eruption on Kīlauea Volcano’s East Rift Zone during the past month suggest that the magma system beneath Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō has become increasingly pressurized, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported April 17. If this activity continues, a new vent could form at any time, either on the Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō cone
The Stratolaunch, which is so big that it requires two cockpits and six jet engines, will be sent on a test flight this summer, if all goes to plan. The plane has a wingspan which is longer than a football field at 385 feet and will eventually be used to transport rockets carrying satellites and
While the San Andreas fault gets most of the headlines for its seismic activity on the west coast of America, researchers claim that it is the Hayward Fault which is long overdue and could destroy the San Francisco area if a mega quake strikes. Water, electricity and gas supplies could be affected, and hillside areas
YouTuber Steve Pursell shared his bizarre confession online in a bid to spread the revelation of his alleged encounter with God. In the video, Mr Pursell claims to have travelled back in time to the year 1860, where he found himself right in the middle of the bloody US Civil War. He said: “Hello brothers
A shallow earthquake registered by the Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics (BMKG) as M4.4 hit Central Java Province, Indonesia at 06:28 UTC on April 18, 2018. The agency is reporting a depth of 4 km (2.4 miles). EMSC is reporting M4.4 at a depth 18 km (11.2 miles). The earthquake was centered about 52
Christian conspiracy theorists insist we have been living in the ‘end times’ for the last century, and now the return of Christ is imminent and he will herald in the apocalypse. According to website Christin Prophecy – spelt as is on the website – the beginning of the end started in 1917 when the British
A powerful late-season winter storm named Xanto by The Weather Channel brought record April snowfall to the upper Midwest and Great Lakes in mid-April 2018. Xanto was the heaviest April snowstorm on record in Minneapolis/St. Paul, it also was the second-heaviest snowstorm of all-time in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The storm officially brought 40.13 cm (15.8 inches)
In chaos theory, they say the infinitesimal flapping of a butterfly’s wings can hypothetically cascade into a fierce tornado. Now, scientists have demonstrated how some of the smallest creatures in the ocean could have the same outsized impact under the waves – with swarms of marine organisms inadvertently producing powerful currents that mix and churn
On 27 August 1883, Earth made the loudest noise in recorded history. Emanating from the island of Krakatoa, which sits between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, the sound could be heard clearly almost 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles) away and by people across 50 different geological locations around the world. According to
The simulated armageddon video popped up online as fears of the world’s imminent end grow ahead of April 23. The bizarre clip uploaded to YouTube, under the title ‘TIME TRAVELLER SHOWS – Planet X (Nibiru cataclysm) footage of what it would look like if real’, alleges to show the world’s end. The so-called Nibiru, or
A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the Iranian Seismological Center as M5.9 hit southern Iran at 06:34 UTC on April 19, 2018. The agency is reporting a depth of 18 km (11.2 miles). USGS is reporting M5.5 at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles). The epicenter was located 88 km (54.7 miles) SE
As technology becomes more available to modify genes, athletes are looking for ways to bolster their performance and bend the rules to get ahead in their field. Lee Sweeney, a physiologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, first discovered in the 1990s that by activating a protein known as IGF-1 in mice,
Amateur mathematician Aubrey de Grey has stunned the maths world by making the first significant progress in decades towards solving a longstanding riddle – one that’s perplexed mathematical thinkers for over 60 years. The riddle, called the Hadwiger-Nelson problem, is basically all about untouchable colours, and how many of them – or, rather, how
For the first ever time miniature human brains have grown in a new species and scientists have suggested the breakthrough could help with stem cell research. Scientists created the pin-sized human brains from stem cells and then placed them inside the skulls of mice, where a piece of tissue had been removed to make room
Purveyors of the bizarre Nibiru, or Planet X conspiracy theory, are convinced the world will perish when a rogue planetary system crosses paths with our own. Many of these so-called Nibiru truthers believe the end of the world will occur in the near future – as soon as April 23, 2018. The leading voice of
On Monday, a large amount of ash like mud was reported along the Swedish west coast. According to coast guards, the strange substance is drifting somewhere between Norway, Sweden and Denmark due to weather and currents. A geologists was asked to take a look at it, and the best fit guess until the laboratory results
In 2016 the Great Barrier Reef suffered unprecedented mass coral bleaching – part of a global bleaching event that dwarfed its predecessors in 1998 and 2002. This was followed by another mass bleaching the following year. This was the first case of back-to-back mass bleaching events on the reef. The result was a 30
It’s the end of an era in Cuba. For the first time in more than half a century, Cuba won’t be ruled by a Castro. Castro Era ends in Cuba. For the first time in more than half a century, Cuba won’t be ruled by a Castro. Raúl Castro — who took over from his
An unexpectedly heavy cardboard box, filled with flat-packed formations. Seemingly superfluous pieces of particle board. A madness-inducing number of screws, nails, and washers, plus the lingering fear that one might be left over. Even if you like putting together IKEA furniture, you’ve gotta admit that it’s no walk in the park. It’s the ultimate
Mr Meade has based his apocalyptic hypothesis on the passage of Isaiah in the Old Testament. It states a “cruel day” will come and will be filled with “wrath and fierce anger”, suggesting it will be very painful. It states: “See, the Day of the Lord is coming – a cruel day, with wrath and
NASA’s newest satellite is scheduled to launch on the evening of Wednesday 18 April, 22:51 UTC. Known as TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will play a crucial role in humanity’s search for planets outside our own Solar System. And it’ll be blasted into orbit by SpaceX’s famous, reusable Falcon 9 rocket. Shortly after the launch, SpaceX
New activity/unrest was reported for 3 volcanoes between April 11 and 17, 2018. During the same period, ongoing activity was reported for 13 volcanoes. New activity/unrest: Ambae, Vanuatu | Langila, New Britain (Papua New Guinea) | Sinabung, Indonesia. Ongoing activity: Agung, Bali (Indonesia) | Aira, Kyushu (Japan) | Bagana, Bougainville (Papua New Guinea) | Cleveland, Chuginadak Island (USA) | Dukono, Halmahera
The Transit Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) lifted off on schedule from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 6:51 PM EDT (11pm GMT), following a two-day postponement forced by a technical glitch found on Monday in the rocket’s guidance-control system. The California-based company has launched cargo missions and other payloads for NASA before. But the
The elusive Ganges river shark (Glyphis gangeticus) is listed as critically endangered, and has not been seen for more than ten years. But recently published photographs show a female specimen measuring 8ft 7in at a market in Mumbai, leaving conservationists stunned. Rima Jabado, is the founder and lead scientist of the Gulf Elasmo Project, which
“Back to September 20th,” tweeted San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. The whole island of Puerto Rico went dark for the first time since Hurricane Maria. On Monday, the island’s power utility boasted that it had restored electricity to 97 percent of customers. Two days later, the precarious electric grid collapsed, plunging the entire island
A crazy cool video has surfaced from March 3, 2016 out of Santos, Brazil by Meire Ruiz of Facebook. And it is mindblowing! Enjoy! for those without Facebook here a youtube video of the eerie sky phenomenon: Finally, these pictures show you when the sky is full of these bloody clouds! WOW! blood red sky
This shocking footage shows penguins living on an island of plastic waste! Researchers recorded these disturbing images in the South Pacific, where dozens of Gentoo penguins have settled on an island of plastic waste. Is that the new normal? What is living on this garbage island in the South Pacific? These animals are penguins. And
Trillions upon trillions of viruses fall from the sky each day. Scientists have surmised there is a stream of viruses circling the planet, above the planet’s weather systems but below the level of airline travel. Very little is known about this realm, and that’s why the number of deposited viruses stunned the team in Spain.
The power grid has collapsed in Puerto Rico and the entire island lost power on the morning of April 18, 2018. The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately known, but island officials and media confirmed electricity was out. The outage comes shortly after a tree fell on power lines and knocked the power out of
How’s the air in your neighbourhood today? A new State of Global Air report suggests more than 95 percent of the planet’s population currently have to breathe polluted air – air containing fine particle levels that exceed the global air quality guidelines. What’s more, the burden of bad air quality is affecting the poorest
At least 12 people have been killed and 1 341 families affected by severe weather since the start of the current rainy season in Colombia (April – May), the country’s National Disaster Risk Management Agency (UNRGD) reports. Since the start of the season, the country experienced 103 severe weather events, including thunderstorms, heavy rain, floods
By analysing passages in the Bible, many believe they have been able to pinpoint the world will end – and that is June 24, 2018. Christian conspiracy theorist Mathieu Jean-Marc Joseph Rodrigue examines a passage in the Book of Revelations which reads: “And a mouth was given to [the Beast], speaking great things and blasphemy,
A major, fatal rockslide event took place at Castell de Mur in Catalonia, Spain on Monday, April 16, 2018, killing at least 2 people. According to first estimates, this rock slope failure had a mass of about 50 000 tonnes and a volume of 20 000 cubic meters (706 300 cubic feet). “The landslide came off of
The diamonds come from a mysterious land which one circled the sun 4.5billion years ago, according to experts. The planet was slightly bigger than Mercury and was destroyed in a comic collision as these valuable diamonds give scientists a glimpse into the formation of planets. Ten of these other worlds, which were the size between
The stunning 520-million-year-old fossil found in Yunnan, southern China, was presented to the world in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Ancient fossilised creature has quickly caught the interest of scientists and palaeontologists alike who are fiercely debating the new findings. But what are these spindly and oddly shaped fossils that
More than 20 people were killed and 33 000 displaced from their homes over the past 10 days as floods continue affecting Kenya. According to FloodList, this is the third wave of flooding in the country since March this year. At least 15 people died and hundreds forced to evacuate their homes after flooding in mid-March. Before that, at
A new study from a climatologist and a professor of astrophysics has revealed a massive spike in global warming 56 million years ago. This spike was discovered in a dramatic change in the geological composition buried deep beneath Earth’s surface in an era known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). To investigate the idea of
It’s the prettiest powder keg on the planet – the Yellowstone supervolcano, simmering under the mystique and grandeur of the national park that adorns the fearsome caldera. And scientists just got one step closer to understanding the hidden geology of this epic blowhole. Using supercomputers to model the behaviour of two known magma chambers concealed
Thousands of people were trapped in buildings and vehicles after extreme rainfall event accompanied by lightning and hail hit the Caribbean island of Martinique on April 16 and 17, 2018. According to Meteo France, Saint-Joseph recorded 175 mm (6.88 inches) of rain in just 6 hours on April 16, 160 mm (6.29 inches) in Le
There’s something sorely lacking in the scientific fields of astronomy and astrophysics. As it turns out, we’re still lacking logical consistency in how we measure what goes on in space. Writing for the journal Astronomy & Geophysics, retired physics professor Keith Atkin of the University of Sheffield says that our current global “system” – if
A massive dust storm swept over Yazd province in central Iran on April 16, 2018. Hadi Hadinasab, the director-general of the crisis management department of Yazd governorate, said the storm has fortunately left no casualties or damages. The dense cloud dramatically reduced visibility and left thousands without electricity. “Reports from various regions in the province
Scores of conspiracists led by self-titled Christian numerologist David Meade are certain the world will end as we know it on April 23. The Nibiru theory, also known as the Planet X or Wormwood conspiracy, is a hoax doomsday claim which flares up online every few months. Purveyors of the theory believe a rogue planetary
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