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The viral footage was captured at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport and then posted on YouTube before being viewed more than 150,000 times. If the lightning bolt blasting the jet was not…
The US state sits on top of the potentially catastrophic fault, a chasm between two massive plates of the Earth’s crust that extends hundreds of miles across the country. Recently,…
For the first time, scientists have witnessed lightning triggering nuclear reactions in the atmosphere, confirming a hypothesis dating back almost a century. It’s long been predicted that high-energy electrons in…
Many humans have gone way too far in their need to have squeaky clean, completely germ-free hands at all times. And while alcohol-based hand sanitiser is the least problematic choice,…
If you don’t have a lot of friends on social media, it may mean that you are just a little less concerned with material possessions in your everyday life. According…
After the tablets’ rapid popularity it faced criticism from companies who said the pills were too powerful to be available without a prescription. But after clinical studies and legal negotiations…
It may be lacking a head, but a skeleton found on a beach in Siberia is still one of the most complete of its kind. The massive bones unearthed on…
After weeks of silence and denials, Russia has confirmed that it too has detected evidence of a mysterious radiation cloud floating above much of Europe, observing a dramatic radiation spike…
Neutrinos have a reputation for playing hard to get. Tiny, sub-atomic particles that have no charge and close to zero mass, they usually slip past Earth’s atoms leaving barely a…
Seeking to prove that a conspiracy of astronauts fabricated the shape of Earth, a California man intends to launch himself 1,800 feet (549 metres) high on Saturday in a rocket…
Think you know the kind of tunes you like? It turns out that changing the patterns of activity in the brain is enough to partially alter our taste in music,…
Russia’s meteorological service Roshydromet confirmed Monday, November 20, 2017 that ‘extremely high’ concentrations of the radioactive isotope Ruthenium 106 (Ru-106) were detected in the southern Urals in late September. Roshydromet…
Taurus the Bull’s star cluster, the Pleiades, will culminate in the northern hemisphere tonight nearly an hour after midnight. The breathtaking astronomical event will take place around 12.52am GMT (7.52pm…