Flies Fall For Optical Illusions Just Like Us, Despite Millions of Years of Evolution
Sometimes our eyes play tricks on us, and sometimes, we play tricks on them. Optical illusions have entranced neuroscientists for decades, but these false messages have probably been going on…
Massive Study of 24,000 Dreams Suggests They Really Are Continuations of Reality
Where do dreams come from? It’s an age-old question, something people have been wondering and theorising about for millennia. Whereas ancient civilisations may have interpreted dreams as having supernatural or…
Scientists Just Narrowed Down The Age of Earth’s Inner Core
At some point in Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history, its entirely liquid iron core cooled enough to form a solid ball in the centre. Today, our planet’s core consists of a solid…
Up to Half The World’s Water Supply Is Being Stolen, a Troubling Report Reveals
Our planet’s water supply is an incredibly valuable resource that we need to protect, and worrying new figures show between 30-50 percent of it is being stolen – meaning that…
A Collapsed Cliff Has Revealed 313 Million-Year-Old Fossil Footprints in The Grand Canyon
A chance discovery during a hike in Grand Canyon National Park in 2016 ended up revealing strange footprints left by something that also walked there once, long, long ago. So…
Strange, ‘Long-Lost’ Elephant Shrew Has Been Rediscovered in Africa After 50 Years
For half a century scientists feared that the Somali elephant shrew had vanished from the face of the Earth. No one had seen so much as a whisker. But the…