Why Do Humans Hardly Engage in Cannibalism, if It’s So Common in Animals?
Vulnerable spadefoot tadpoles eat their smaller competitors to speed towards toadhood as quickly as possible. Gulls and pelicans are among bird species that eat hatchlings for food or to prevent…
Welcome to The Deepest Hole on The Entire Planet
Deep in western Russia, if you know where to look, you’ll find a small collection of ragged scrap metal and crumbled concrete. Which isn’t that exciting. But if you rifle…
India’s Chandrayaan 2 Has Officially Entered an Orbit Around The Moon
India’s Chandrayaan 2 spacecraft is now in orbit around the Moon. That means it’s on schedule to touch down on the lunar surface on September 7, according to Agence France-Presse…
ISS live feed shock: The bizarre anomaly spotted ‘floating by’ during NASA coverage | Weird | News
NASA astronauts Drew Morgan and Nick Hague are gearing up for the fifth spacewalk of the year on Wednesday. The pair are tasked with installing a new docking adapter on…
Europe Could Power The Entire World With Onshore Wind Farms Alone
When it comes to harnessing renewable wind energy, the European Union is not even close to reaching its full potential, according to a new study. If a wind turbine was…
MH370 news: Anonymous mechanic admits ‘lapse in memory’ over oxygen bottle valve | Weird | News
Malaysia Airlines flight 370 left Kuala Lumpur Airport on March 8, 2014, destined for Beijing, China with 239 people on board. However, the jet last communicated with air traffic control…
New Study Outlines The Nuclear Winter We’d Have if US And Russia Blew Up Their Bombs
The simulations have been run, and it’s official: even today, a nuclear war between the US and Russia would plunge the planet into a nuclear winter, with clouds of soot…
Don’t panic but California could be on the brink of its worst-ever wildfire season
After being devastated by wildfires last year, California has gone through several months of being relatively fire-free. But as we head into the heat of late summer, the state is…
Ways the Climate Crisis Will Change How We Live
Between record heat and rain, this summer’s weather patterns have indicated, once again, that the climate is changing. US cities, where more than 80% of the nation’s population lives, are…
Police find mummified human remains during raid in child sex case
New Jersey police raiding the house of a man accused of sexually assaulting a young girl made a horrifying discovery — mummified human remains and an “altar to an unknown…
These 9 ‘Moonshot’ Innovations Will Remind You How Ingenious Humans Can Truly Be
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped foot on the Moon in 1969, they helped to cement the idea of a “moonshot” – a goal or achievement that challenges what…
Bible news: Jesus prophecy fulfilled as Sea of Galilee earthquakes ‘signal Second Coming’ | Weird | News
Northeastern Israel has been the centre of heightened seismic activity recently – and it all began when, in September 2013, locals felt their windows rattle as an earthquake rumbled beneath…
The Skeleton Lake mystery: Old bones from Asian pilgrims found near mysterious europeans bones
There are some creepy places where dead bodies just lay out in the open! Take Roopkund glacial lake, which is during the winter the perfect place to go skating. But…
Earth’s Mysterious Inner Core Could Finally Be Explained by New Science
It’s one of the deepest unknowns in geophysics: the hidden movements of Earth’s innermost core. While we think of the ground beneath our feet as terra firma, that reassuring rigidity…
New Experiment Just Placed a Major Constraint on The Mysterious Force of Dark Energy
The Universe is expanding, and that expansion is speeding up over time. These two facts have been well established through observation, but we don’t know what’s causing that expansion. It…