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The document, dated 1922, was the physicist’s first published piece as a Nobel laureate. According to RR Auction, of Boston, USA, the item is “the most spectacular Einstein manuscript we…
For the past two years, scientists from Oregon State University and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have surveyed the Pacific Northwest near-shore region mapping sites where underwater bubble streams…
Indonesia’s Merapi volcano erupted at 01:20 UTC (08:20 local time) on June 1, 2018, sending ash up to 11.6 km (38 000 feet) in the air in two minutes and…
A small church in New Mexico has been inundated with visitors after a statue of the Virgin Mary was seen weeping at the site. The eerie enigma at the Our…
Is London about to be hit by a major earthquake? Scientists discover two fault lines under the capital that could trigger a massive tremor – one-in-a-thousand-year chance. One runs directly…
Tropical Storm Alberto has left a trail of deadly destruction across parts of the US with Virginia and North Carolina ravaged by landslides and floods and dams now perilously close…
The American astronaut broke the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman after she spent a staggering 665 days in orbit. Whitson returned to earth on September 3,…
Archaeologists combing the south of Peru for clues about the Nazca Lines’ origins encountered dozens of new glyphs in drone fly-bys this week. A Peru Culture Ministry official confirmed the…
Chemicals such as lead, bromine and antimony are common in household electronics but the average Briton would not expect them to come in contact with their food. However, scientists at…
Brussels has warned the UK will be forced to quit the project post-Brexit sparking anger in both Whitehall and the country’s scientific community. But some experts were suggesting kicking out…
A team of researchers at the University of Rochester in New York fear humanity could cause its own demise in one of three ways. Professor Adam Frank, who led the…
The out-of-this-world trip “outside our solar system” is presented by NASA’s new virtual Exoplanet Travel Bureau. The Exoplanet Travel Bureau is an interactive and explorable 360 degree visualisation tool of…
Elon Musk’s rocket company will carry out a standard resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) later in June, the US space agency revealed. A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft…
It has been labelled “the holy grail” of cancer research and could lead to doctors being able to offer universal screening. The breakthrough is expected to be officially announced at…
The conclusions of a team of researchers led by Huabo Duan, an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Shenzhen University, comes hot on the heels of another…
Archaeologists in Peru have discovered more than 25 large drawings carved into the earth near the Nazca Lines in a southern coastal desert. They include figures of a killer whale…
The strange sounds from the sky are back again. They were recorded in May in California, Minnesota and Southampton. Strange Sounds May 2018 A mysterious noise from the sky is…
Mr Bezos is looking to utilise the full potential of his space exploration company Blue Origin to establish a lunar base. The billionaire says that his company will look to…
A lady, who gives her name simply as Barbara, has spoken out about the time she tried to commit suicide – but quickly realised life was better than what was…
The monstrous remains of a collapsed star stunned astronomers back on Earth who observed it for the first time on x-ray, radio and optical wavelengths. NASA’s space boffins tracked the…
Since the launch of NASA’s Kepler space telescope in 2009, scientists have uncovered thousands of distant exoplanets in the deep depths of space. Scientists in California and Australia are now…
Scientists have now discovered new evidence to show male diversity almost completely collapsed 7,000 years ago, in a disaster so extreme there was only one man for every 17 woman,…
Scientists at the University of California San Diego have developed multifunctional robots capable of swimming through bloodstreams to remove bacteria and toxins. The ultrasound powered robots measure an impressive two…
A team of international astronomers have stumbled upon signatures of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) or middle-sized black holes weighting tens of thousands of solar masses. In the past, scientists…
Humanoid machines of the future might lose layers of steel and plastic after a shocking experiment revealed scientists can create lab-grown skin tissues and muscles. Scientists at the Institute of…
The time traveller, named James Oliver, who claims to be stuck in the year 2018 after his time machine broke down, has said “countless” forms of species more sophisticated than…
Alexander Berezin, a renowned scientist from Russia’s National University of Electronic Technology Research, warned humans would be both the first to enter and last to leave the universe as mankind…
A team of scientists have conducted fieldwork in the Kilauea fields since 2015 as part of a four-year Nasa-led research project. One of the questions they are investigating is how…
“Yeah, I think we will find another gas station.” Check out this (terrifying) video of mayflies swarming at a gas station in Slidell, Louisiana Monday night, May 28, 2018. This…
A stream dried up. Then the ground at Umuzu Mbana village, Otolo, Nnewi in Nigeria has reportedly begun to emit flames and a strange odor. The President of the community…
The so-called “Neolithic Y-chromosome bottleneck’ is evidence of a time at which human genetic diversity was markedly reduced, concludes the report, written by a team of researchers led by Tian…
Laura Watson claims the ghostly child can been seen just behind her son’s shoulder in the harrowing photograph. Laura, from Newcastle, had been out with her family at Plessey Woods…
The researchers believe these rocks, which formed in Mars’ dried up lake beds, could contain alien fossils dating as far back as four billion years ago. The incredible claim was…
The bits and pieces of shattered machinery were uncovered by the Mayor of Nowa Wieś Wielka in Dolny Śląsk, north-central Poland, after crash landing in his field. The bizarre fragments…
A team of physicists from Australia and Switzerland envisioned a real-life flux capacitor, using the principle of magnetic flux quantum tunnelling around a capacitor. Based on the popular science-fiction technology…
Virgin’s passenger spacecraft SpaceShipTwo blasted off towards space on Tuesday, completing its second test flight in two months. The rocket-powered craft, dubbed VSS Unity, took off from Mojave Air and…
The first human corneas to come out of a low-cost 3D printer were created by a team of researchers at Newcastle University in the UK. The incredibly bizarre achievement was…
The so-called Flower Moon peaked over the US horizon in the early hours of Wednesday before sailing across the sky to the UK by 3pm in the afternoon. The May…
PEOPLE witnessed the May Flower Moon on May 29 and as it marked the mid-way point of the year’s annual full moon cycle, social media was buzzing with reactions all…
‘Vog’ from Kilauea volcano blankets Marshall Islands, 3700km away. And the volcanic smog will continue moving west, as Marshall Islands issues health warning. Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been sending volcanic…
John Lewis have reported that sales are up by a whopping 75 per cent this year. Spokeswoman Hannah McFarlane said: “With temperatures reaching the high 20s, people are less prepared…
Online UFO hunter and self-appointed space journalist Joe White claims to have stumbled upon the crumbling remains of a long-forgotten alien Sphinx statue on Mars. Mr White presented his bizarre…
Dr Nigel Shadbolt made his remarks during the course of a presentation to Hay Festival entitled The Digital Ape: how to live (in peace) with smart machines. Pioneering scientist Elon…
The topic of time travel was approached last week on Episode 6 of AMC Visionaries: James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction. The two hour-long finale of the documentary explored the…