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The epic collision between two neutron stars in 2017 really is the science gift that keeps on giving. As they merged, gravitational waves rippled out across the Universe; now reverberations…
Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without it, but compared to other liquids, water is just a freaking weirdo. And, as it now turns out, it’s even weirder than…
Last month was the warmest January on record globally, while in Europe temperatures were a balmy three degrees Celsius above the average January from 1981 to 2010, the European Union’s…
The worst case scenario for sea level rise in the United States is more than just a dim possibility. It’s becoming more likely. An annual “report card” for the US…
Permafrost in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is abruptly crumbling in ways that could release large stores of greenhouse gases more quickly than anticipated, researchers have warned. Scientists have long fretted…
A team of researchers at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux have grown yarn from human skin cells that they call a “human textile” –…
If humans are truly capable of learning while we sleep, our noses might be the key. A new study on children suggests that subtle smells, like the fragrance of a…
Amongst all the different types of cancer treatment, photodynamic therapy – where light in is used to destroy malignant cells – might have one of the strangest side effects: patients…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The official investigation concluded that MH370 most likely…
The pup has been born with only one eye, placed in the centre of his head (Image: Viral Press) The pup, who has been named Kevin after the Minions character…
And if the latest claims about Nostradamus are to be believed, Spain could one day wrestle control over Gibraltar from the UK. According to Tilda Negri’s website To-En.gr, which means…
Cephalopods such as octopuses and squids may demonstrate some impressive smarts, but the latest research on cuttlefish may just blow your mind. Researchers have found that cuttlefish fed to a…
Fireflies are in deep trouble, with many species facing extinction due to habitat loss and exposure to pesticides, according to the first major review of their global status, published Monday.…
A dramatic encounter between two stars has strewn their remains out across their little corner of space in the most spectacular fashion – and we get to actually see it…
Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier hasn’t been doing so well. It’s close to irreversibly melting, it has a huge cavity growing underneath it, and it’s the poster child for everything wrong with…
Listening to upbeat music while you exercise might improve your physical performance, a small new study has found. When women who were training heard pop songs with over 170 beats…
As beneficial as current solar panel technology has been in our quest to switch to renewable energy, such panels can’t generate electricity at night. Now, new research suggests it could…
The old well doesn’t look like much – a wooden crate-like object, dilapidated, crumbling a little. But according to new research, it’s really special. A tree-ring dating technique has revealed…
Australia’s recent bushfire crisis will be remembered for many things – not least, the tragic loss of life, property and landscape. But one other factor made it remarkable: the deluge…
In July and August of 2016, astronomers noticed something really strange in the data from the Gaia space observatory. A distant star oddly brightened, then dimmed. A few weeks later,…
Oceans cover most of the Earth, including its longest mountain range and the ancient bridges that humans crossed to reach other continents. In a recent remake of a 2008 NASA…
Slamming a beak against the trunk of a tree would seem like an activity that would cause headaches, jaw aches and serious neck and brain injuries. Yet woodpeckers can do…
Mathematicians have finally figured out the three cubed numbers that add up to 42. This has settled a problem that has been pondered for 65 years: namely, can each of…
Solar storms powerful enough to wreak havoc on electronic equipment strike Earth every 25 years, according to a new study. And less powerful – yet still dangerous – storms occur…
On 19 October 2016, the NASA/ESA ExoMars mission arrived at the Red Planet to begin its study of the surface and atmosphere. While the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) successfully established…
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The official investigation concluded that that its final…
You would think that ensuring the survival of the human race is something you can’t put a price on, but one of the reasons that governments aren’t always keen to…
“The MoD may have stopped investigating UFOs in 2009 when they axed their UFO project, but people didn’t stop having sightings. “While most FOIA responses are standard replies, some can…
One pastor and conspiracy theorist has claimed he has analysed the texts of Revelation 8 and concluded Earth will end in a fiery death when an asteroid strikes it at…
It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi thriller, but sub-quantum kinetics is a theory that Thomas Townsend Brown spent most of his life trying to prove. Also known…
Earlier this week British tourist was trying to cross Nahuel Huapi Lake in a kayak when he reportedly got into trouble. The 34-year-old male was found on Wednesday nearly 20…
The ISS is an artificial satellite in low-Earth orbit, serving as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory for astronauts in space. It was a joint project between NASA, Roscosmos,…
Deep inside our DNA lurks a legacy of lust and romance between estranged human bloodlines reconnecting on an epic journey around the globe. It now seems we might have been…
Four ancient skulls discovered in a submerged Mexican cave system have archaeologists wondering if they were right about the earliest humans on the American continents. It’s thought that ancient populations…