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For a long while it wasn’t clear whether the island’s native population originated in Polynesia or South America. And how can we explain its apparent paradox: the design, construction and…
The Associated Press has obtained and released audio of mysterious sounds that some US diplomats and families heard in Cuba before suffering hearing loss, mild traumatic brain injury, nervous system…
In early October, SpaceX founder Elon Musk debuted a new plan for colonising Mars with 1 million people. The centrepiece of Musk’s roughly 42-minute talk was the “Big F-ing Rocket“,…
Beneath Yellowstone National Park, a beast slumbers. Recent rumblings might be of interest to volcanologists, but for those fearing a cataclysmic eruption it seems as if we have little to…
If you’re going to make camouflage, may as well copy from the best, and one of the best the world has to offer is our peculiar eight-armed pal the octopus.…
Being unable to see the wood for the trees is a fairly common idiom, though we could just as easily say we can’t see the Milky Way for the stars.…
We’ve all flushed something down the toilet we wish we hadn’t, but apparently there’s more of a goldmine down there than you might have suspected – quite literally. Scientists have…
More than 100 hippos have been killed in a suspected outbreak of anthrax in a remote national park in Namibia. The first victim of the outbreak in Bwabwata National Park…
At just 53 attoseconds, a single flash of an X-ray laser has become the shortest light pulse of its kind in the history of optics, smashing the previous record by…
It’s difficult to contemplate the tragedy of losing a loved one and never knowing what happened to them. Every year, an estimated 38,000 people go missing in Australia. While almost…
Brace yourselves: it looks like there’s another big gravitational wave announcement coming. LIGO and Virgo have announced that they’re going to be holding a big press conference on Monday, 16…
A new study published Tuesday has found that warm ocean water is carving an enormous channel into the underside of one of the key floating ice shelves of West Antarctica,…
For the fourth year running, Chapman University in California has run its Survey of American Fears, polling 1,207 adults from across the US about what they’re most scared of and…
Beyond the orbit of Neptune there are hundreds or even thousands of mysterious dwarf planets, most of which we know almost nothing about – but there’s a lot to learn…
Want to have your ashes scattered in space? It’s a beautiful concept, but this might not be the solution you’re looking for. And, perhaps, we should also be careful about…
The Great Barrier Reef is suffering from recent unprecedented coral bleaching events. But the answer to part of its recovery could lie in the reef itself, with a little help.…
A little over a year since its completion, China’s 500-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST for short) has just made its first confirmed discovery. Astronomers used the giant dish to spot…
Scientists have discovered a quantum material that could represent the future of artificial intelligence – not because it retains vast amounts of data, but precisely because it doesn’t. The human…
A photo taken at the European Space Agency’s Madrid astronomy club revealed an awesome surprise – a photobombing bird flying through a shot of the International Space Station. Capturing the…
The honey bees had taken up residence inside the walls of the house. A homeowner in Hillside, New Jersey, near Newark, told CBS New York it was “really noisy” with…
It’s peak wildfire season in California, where more than a dozen blazes ignited on Sunday. Officials have yet to determine the origin of these fires, most of which are in…
Classroom models lie – our Solar System isn’t a bunch of bright, closely nestled orbs. Instead, other planets are separated from Earth by unfathomable distances – and are often too…
Men and women get slightly different boosts of that neurological happy-drug dopamine when they perform altruistic acts, according to a new study. Before we jump feet-first into any “men are…
The electric honeycomb, or rose window instability, is a curious phenomenon. It occurs when a high-voltage corona charge – the ionisation of air surrounding a conductor – is applied from…
In our eagerness to identity the Universe’s occult phenomena of dark energy and dark matter, we often forget that most of its better defined particles also seem to be MIA.…
New analysis of a gargantuan helium deposit discovered in Tanzania last year has revealed that there may be much more of the gas than initial surveys revealed. At the time,…
New research published on Monday finds there is so much wind energy potential over oceans that it could theoretically be used to generate ‘civilisation scale power’ – assuming, that is,…
Mars may be an arid wasteland today, but that wasn’t always the case – and scientists have discovered evidence that a huge sea existed on southern Mars some 3.7 billion…
Scientists have set a new record in optical measurements using photons, achieving a level of precision that before now was only possible in the world of theory. In a first-of-its-kind…
Cats kill more than a million birds every day across Australia, according to our new estimate – the first robust attempt to quantify the problem on a nationwide scale. By…
It is rare to encounter a scientific fact that stirs widespread debate and distrust quite like the matter of climate change. Despite consensus among climate specialists about a theory that…
One of the most peculiar aspects of quantum theory is the observer effect, the idea that the very act of observing and measuring something – just observing and measuring, nothing…