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Their forecast comes as 2017 has been marked by dozens of tragedies including earthquakes, hurricanes, shootings, and terror attacks. The death toll from Sunday’s earthquake on Iraq-Iran border has risen…
The concept of a “third eye” is usually associated with perception beyond the physical world, but in a new scientific case, it provides insight into evolutionary development. Researchers have intentionally…
The scene bears a striking resemblance to a teenager texting or looking at social media while carelessly walking down the street but was actually painted in around 1850-60. Painted by…
Global carbon dioxide emissions are projected to rise again in 2017, climate scientists reported Monday, a troubling development for the environment and a major disappointment for those who had hoped…
In 1992, more than 1,700 concerned scientists – including the majority of living Nobel Laureates – penned an urgent warning to humanity at large. The message was simple: if we…
In 1992, more than 1,700 concerned scientists – including the majority of living Nobel Laureates – penned an urgent warning to humanity at large. The message was simple: if we…
Trees in metropolitan areas have been growing faster than trees in rural areas worldwide since the 1960s. This has been confirmed for the first time by a study on the…
A research team in Germany have managed to grow small parts of human and ape brains from scratch to compare how they develop and get a better understanding of their…
Researchers at LMU and TUM in Munich are up for best paper at SC17 after simulating one of the largest, most violent earthquakes in history. Just before 8:00 a.m. local…
Top scientists have come up with a cloaking device that scatters light away from an object so it cannot be detected. The new method, conceived as an “invisibility cloak”, will…
An international team of scientists, led by British Antarctic Survey (BAS), has produced a new map showing how much heat from the Earth’s interior is reaching the base of the…
First significant snowfall of the season and hurricane-force Bura winds are causing traffic chaos on roads and highways in parts of Slovenia and Croatia on Monday, November 13, 2017. Wind…
The message is an update on the 1992 caution sent out by the Union of Concerned Scientists which was backed by more than 1,700 experts who all said our future…
A strange triangular-shaped object has been found buried on the surface of Mars which some believe is a sign of a crashed UFO. A video uploaded to YouTube by conspiracy…
In 1986, an explosion at Chernobyl’s nuclear power station resulted in huge amounts of radioactivity being released and scarring the local landscape. To this day, the area in Ukraine is…
Venus and Jupiter rose within 0.3 degrees of each other this morning (November 13) – about half the diameter of the Moon when viewed from Earth. The video above shows…
Adam Ellis says the image shows the ghost he has called “Dear David” sitting staring at him in the bedroom of his New York home. His live updates about the…
A bright fireball streaked through the night sky over New York and Pennsylvania, US at 02:20 UTC on November 11, 2017 (21:20 EST, November 10) and was seen by numerous…
Venus and Jupiter rose above the horizon in the small hours of Monday and could be seen less than 0.3 degrees apart in the UK. For context, this is little…
Mr Meade first believed North Korea has been planning to bomb Yellowstone volcano back in September, when he claimed North Korea’s bomb testing is in preparation for an attack on…
YouTube UFO hunter Streetcap1 posted NASA Apollo 16 images in a video on his channel. NASA images of the Moon, Mars, other planets, as well as footage taken by the…
As one of the world’s biggest conspiracy theories, the Illuminati is said to be a secretive global elite which runs governments from behind the scenes and is planning to introduce…
We all get stressed out. But typically, when we stress, we don’t produce electricity. The same can’t be said of a flexible new material developed by researchers from Empa, the…
The oldest water in the ocean didn’t reach its advanced years by accident. Deep in the North Pacific, a vast stretch of submerged ocean is trapped in a kind of…
Some paintings keep their secrets under the paint, but for Vincent van Gogh’s 1889 painting Olive Trees, the secret has been hiding in plain sight – if you know where…
Looking back now on an incident that took place in 2001 while he directed a flight from NASA’s mission control room, Paul Hill often thinks, “Holy cow, we could’ve killed…
Early risers might have seen the stunning conjunction of Venus and Jupiter when they woke up this morning. The two planets rose as one above the eastern horizon and could…
It’s not just your imagination: life in America really has become more unpleasant this year. According to a new Gallup report, American wellbeing fell by a “statistically significant and meaningfully…
Scientists have discovered a simple, low-cost method for boosting the strength of Wi-Fi signals inside your home, and it relies on a household staple almost everybody keeps on hand in…
A strong and shallow earthquake registered by the USGS as M6.5 hit Costa Rica at 02:28 UTC on November 13, 2017 (20:28 local time, November 12). The agency is reporting…