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After more than two years of analysis, the oldest complete ice core has served up a reliable snapshot of our planet’s atmosphere from nearly 2 million years ago. And the…
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have uncovered the scratchings believed to scare-away evil spirits, inside a cavern at Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Centre. The team using advanced technology and…
To this day, the Khmer Empire is remembered for its magnificent capital Angkor, but the legendary Southeast Asian empire moved its seat of power around quite a bit, sometimes with…
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships have disappeared. The vicinity…
When we think about the formation of the entire freaking Universe, one of the biggest questions concerns the birth of the very first stars. It’s thought that stars began appearing…
What started as a meme is now an international movement toward reforestation. When the YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson - aka MrBeast - hit 20 million subscribers on YouTube in May,…
The Kincade Fire has been spreading through California wine country for a week, fuelled by powerful winds as it devours dry vegetation. Diablo winds (northern California’s version of the Santa…
When bitten on the finger by a venomous snake, a farmer in China took the only recourse he thought available to him: he lopped the digit right off before undertaking…
Have you ever wondered how long it would take for the entire world to become vampires? Let say we started out with the set-up from your favourite vampire novel: Do…
What goes on in our minds is usually a private affair, but sometimes, our eyes can betray our thoughts. When someone is thinking of a bright image, their pupils will…
Evangelist John Ramirez who claims to have performed witchcraft for a quarter of a century, hit out at people for getting involved in the Halloween spirit on October 31. The…
American cable news channel, HLN, reported on a scary sighting that became a viral sensation. Maritza Cibuls, a mother from the state of Illinois, posted a terrifying image of her…
Saint Malachy was the Archbishop of Armagh, to whom several miracles were attributed to in the 12th-century. In 1139, Malachy went to Rome from Ireland to give an account of…
Video games were invented for humans, by humans. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re the best when it comes to playing them. In a new achievement that signifies just how…
NASA scientists have found an exoplanet located somewhere no exoplanet should be able to survive. The space agency’s exoplanet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found some pretty neat things…
Putting your pregnancy on pause until the time is right to give birth sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but for many mammals what’s known as “embryonic diapause”…
On one day in September, people from over 50 countries decided to do something about our plastic problem. Together, they picked up almost half a million pieces of plastic garbage…
Just like us, plants need water to survive, but that doesn’t mean these leafy greens enjoy a downpour any more than we do. When the grey clouds loom and the…
Available evidence points to there being a lot of water out there in the Universe, beyond the Solar System. Detecting it and studying it, however, is not exactly easy –…
Say we stopped emitting greenhouse gases overnight; by the year 2100, the world’s oceans would still likely rise another foot and a half. More realistically, we’ll likely see seas get…
Where there’s water, there’s life, the thinking loosely goes. New evidence suggests starkly otherwise – or at least identifies some harsh new parameters on where life and water may (or…
A team of scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto have laid out the blueprints for a “quantum battery” that never loses its charge. To be clear, this battery…
It’s not easy studying birds. They fly away for months at a time, and even if you can track them down again, their frivolous texting habits threaten to leave you…