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The question of life after death is an interesting one but there is no scientific consensus about the afterlife being real. Some researchers believe visions of the afterlife are a…
But there is another author who many claim predicted the outbreak of a deadly contagion in the years 2020. In her 2008 book End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about…
Strange, vein-like shadows imprinted in ancient rocks are some of the most important clues yet in piecing together the timeline of photosynthesis. At 1 billion years old, the tiny fossils…
It was said that all he touched turned to gold. But destiny eventually caught up with the legendary King Midas, and a long-lost chronicle of his ancient downfall appears to…
In the current era of space exploration, the name of the game is “cost-effective”. By reducing the costs associated with individual launches, space agencies and private aerospace companies (aka NewSpace)…
Some truths about the Universe and our experience in it seem immutable. The sky is up. Gravity sucks. Nothing can travel faster than light. Multicellular life needs oxygen to live.…
Australia’s wildfires have destroyed more than a fifth of the country’s forests, making the blazes “globally unprecedented” following a years-long drought linked to climate change, researchers said Monday. Climate scientists…
Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie Hidden Figures, died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said. Johnson’s calculations helped put the…
“These are locusts on a biblical scale. It’s catastrophic, it’s cataclysmic, it’s apocalyptic and it’s happening right now. “We’ve been talking about it for a while but guys, now it…
Although we’re yet to detect any sort of life on Mars, the planet is not a quiet one. Deep in its guts, the Red Planet rumbles – the seismic stirrings…
A mysterious comet identified last year as only the second-ever known interstellar object in our Solar System inevitably prompted some big scientific questions. Chief among them: what, if anything, can…
The latest round of observations of the star Betelgeuse are in, and the dimming that some were reporting as a precursor to supernova has stopped; now, there’s evidence of brightening.…
Antarctica is supposed to be an extremely cold place. The annual mean temperature of the snow-laden continent’s central area is -57 degrees Celsius (−70.6°F); even the coast averages around -10°C…
An amateur American astronaut who said he wanted to prove the Earth is flat has been killed in the crash of his homemade rocket in California, said the Science Channel,…
To cram ever more computing power into your pocket, engineers need to come up with increasingly ingenious ways to add transistors to an already crowded space. Unfortunately there’s a limit…
Scientists have ‘puppeteered’ the movements of a jellyfish and made it even faster than the real thing. Taking artificial control with a microelectronic implant, researchers have increased the natural swimming…
Self-styled UFO expert Scott Waring revealed his latest shock find on his etdatabase.com site. He said: “I think I have have found a plane being abducted by a UFO in…
Astonishing footage of a UFO hovering above Earth has been caught by NASA cameras. The incredible video, captured on the NASA live camera from the International Space Station (ISS), sees…
Scientists have observed a new state of electronic matter on the quantum scale, one that forms when electrons clump together in transit, and it could advance our understanding and application…
Last month, SpaceX became the operator of the world’s largest active satellite constellation. As of the end of January, the company had 242 satellites orbiting the planet with plans to…
Your dog may be the apple of your eye, but let’s be honest: she is an animal, with her own instincts and idiosyncrasies, and there are going to be times…
Our evolutionary history is full of interspecies sex. Different human ancestor species seem to have mingled and mated far more than anthropologists previously realised. Neanderthals interbred with modern humans. Homo…
Sending a mission to moons of Mars has been on the wish list for mission planners and space enthusiasts for quite some time. For the past few years, however, a…
An Australian fusion startup called HB11, a spin-off from the University of New South Wales, claims to have found a way to revolutionize current nuclear fusion technology, potentially laying the…
In 1999, radiologist Nicola Strickland went on a holiday to the Caribbean island of Tobago, a tropical paradise complete with idyllic, deserted beaches. On her first morning there, she went…
Most stars are pretty set in their ways. They are what they are, and they act like it – even if what they are is something really odd. But an…
The worst plague of locusts in 70 years is currently ravaging East Africa, endangering economies in a region heavily dependent on agriculture for food security. In recent days, the infestation…
If humanity fails to find a way through this train wreck of a climate crisis, we might want a form of record-keeping that doesn’t decay after a generation or two.…
We have a new record. Perhaps 1,060 light-years away, a gas giant called NGTS-10b is whipping around its star so closely, it completes an entire orbit in just 18.4 hours.…
In the very early days of the Solar System, baby Earth took a much shorter time to form than we previously thought. According to a new analysis of the iron…
To understand how atoms unite to turn into molecules, we need to catch them in action. But to do that, physicists must force atoms to pause long enough for their…
When it comes to health, education, and nutrition, kids in America could have it better. When it comes to their country’s future carbon emissions, they couldn’t have it much worse.…
Our evolutionary history is full of inter-species sex. Different human ancestor species seem to have mingled and mated far more than anthropologists previously realised. Neanderthals interbred with modern humans. Homo…
For years, there has been a controversial theory about the famous 3,300-year-old tomb of King Tutankhamun: that Queen Nefertiti’s remains are contained just beyond its walls. A team of scientists…
Ancient canine craniums, discovered at a 28,500-year-old fossil site in Czechia, may represent one of the earliest stages of animal husbandry. Or, they could just be wolves. Today, all modern…
“The beings were friendly but at the same time terrifyingly sad.” Piotr’s account features in the book Polskie życie po życiu or The Polish life after life. According to his…
One can only hope that never (again) will a substantially-sized asteroid come barrelling towards Earth. But if it should happen, we’re now better prepared for it: MIT scientists have come…
Nostradamus also wrote of a plague in Century II, Quatrain 19: “Newcomers, place built without defence, “Place occupied then uninhabitable: “Meadows, houses, fields, towns to take at pleasure, “Famine, plague,…
The statement, penned by a team of 27 health experts from outside of China, warned against the spread of fear, rumours and prejudice. The scientists published their statement in The…
In 2013, a man who gives his name as only Bryan was involved in a six-foot fall from a ladder which resulted in him crash landing on the back of…
Randomness is not always as random as you think. It’s actually very challenging for computers to generate true randomness, because algorithms introduce subtle patterns that can be detected, meaning the…
Coronavirus has now taken the lives of more than 2,100 in China as the number of confirmed cases reaches 76,000 worldwide, as South Korea reports a surge of cases has…