There’s a Simple Way to Store Renewable Energy, And We Already Have The Technology
The effect that fossil fuels are having on the climate emergency is driving an international push to use low-carbon sources of energy. At the moment, the best options for producing…
The Arctic ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault Just Stashed Away 60,000 More Seed Samples
A “doomsday vault” nestled deep in the Arctic received 60,000 new seed samples on Tuesday, including Prince Charles’ cowslips and Cherokee sacred corn, increasing stocks of the world’s agricultural bounty…
Stone Tools Show How Humans in India Survived a Supervolcano Eruption 74,000 Years Ago
Of all the volcanic eruptions to shake our planet in the last 2 million years, the Toba super-eruption in India was one of the most colossal. But it may not…
MH370 news: Expert explains plane’s fate as US pilot’s claim ridiculed | Weird | News
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared nearly six years ago on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. While the official investigation concluded…
Leap year conspiracy: Shock ’Phantom time’ theory ‘proves 300 years NEVER happened’ | Weird | News
Why do Leap Years usually happen every four years? During a Leap Year, one extra day is added to the Gregorian calendar, meaning that there are 366 days in the…
End of the world: Book of Revelation ‘prophesied coronavirus stopping Christian Sabbath’ | Weird | News
More than 80,000 people have been affected by the deadly virus now, with more than 2,600 fatalities recorded worldwide. The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, announced…
Life after death: NDE account reveals man who left physical universe in the afterlife | Weird | News
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…
Coronavirus: Sylvia Brown warned the world of pneumonia outbreak 12 years ago | Weird | News
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…
Look at These Mind-Blowing Fossils of 1 Billion-Year-Old Seaweed
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…
Archaeologists in Turkey Discover a Mysterious Ancient Kingdom Lost in History
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…
Engineers Propose a New ‘Detonating’ Rocket Engine, And It’s as Wild as It Sounds
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)…
Scientists Find The First-Ever Animal That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive
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.…
Those Horrific Wildfires in Australia Destroyed a Fifth of The Continent’s Forests
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…
Famous NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Has Died Aged 101
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…
Locust plague in Bahrain: Day turns to night as biblical plague falls on Middle East | Weird | News
“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…
First Direct Evidence of Marsquakes Was Just Revealed Amongst New InSight Discoveries
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…
No Signs of Alien Tech Found by SETI Scans of Our Interstellar Visitor 2I/Borisov
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…
Oh Well, Betelgeuse Has Officially Stopped Dimming For Now
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.…
New NASA Photos From Antarctica Reveal Shocking Levels of Ice Melt
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…
Infamous Daredevil ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes Has Died in Homemade Rocket Crash in California
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,…
Helix of an Elusive Rare Earth Metal Could Help Push Moore’s Law to The Next Level
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 Created Bionic Jellyfish And Successfully Controlled Their Movements
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…
UFO sighting: Google Maps reveals ‘glowing alien craft abducting plane’ in Fiji | Weird | News
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…
NASA catches astonishing footage of UFO hovering above Earth for over 20 minutes | Weird | News
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 Discovered a Brand New Electronic State of Matter
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…
All Those Low-Cost Satellites in Orbit Could Be Weaponized by Hackers, Warns Expert
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…
Heart-Wrenching Study Shows Why You Really Shouldn’t Yell at Your Dog
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…
Humans Bred With a Mysterious Archaic Population in Earliest Known Interbreeding Event
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…
Japan Is Sending a Lander to a Martian Moon, And It’ll Be Back by 2030
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…
Nuclear Fusion Startup Claims It’s on The Way to Providing ‘Unlimited’ Energy
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…
This Tree Is So Toxic, You Can’t Even Stand Under It When It Rains
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…
This Strange Binary Star Is Acting Out of Character, And It’s Not The Only One
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…
Locust swarm approaching Egypt sparks Bible apocalypse fears: ‘We are in the last days’ | Weird | News
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…
Tiny Microbe May Be The Perfect Time Capsule For Messaging Far Future Civilisations
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.…
Astronomers Detect a Doomed ‘Hot Jupiter’ With an Insane 18-Hour-Short Orbit
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.…
New Isotope Analysis Just Changed The Very Timeline of How Earth Was Born
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…
In a Huge First, Physicists Have Captured Individual Atoms And Watched Them Merge
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…
US Is Dramatically Lagging Behind Other Countries in a New ‘Child Flourishing Index’
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.…
The Earliest Sex Between Different Human Ancestors May Have Occurred 700,000 Years Ago
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…
New Claims Have Emerged About The Location of Nefertiti’s Secret Burial Chamber
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…
Curious Fossil Discovery Points to Dog Domestication as Early as 28,500 Years Ago
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…
Life after death: Terrifying NDE accounts recall dark void in first moments after death | Weird | News
“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…
MIT Team Claims to Have Found The Best Way to Deflect Scary Earth-Bound Asteroids
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 prediction: Coronavirus in prophecy of scourge and plague in China? | Weird | News
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,…
Coronavirus conspiracy: Scientists address claims of failed experiment and bioweapon | Weird | News
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…
Life after death: Man saw snippets of his life as he passed to ‘colourful’ other side | Weird | News
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…
Crystals Have Been Used to Generate Truly Random Numbers For The Very First Time
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: Chilling 40-year-old book predicted ‘Wuhan biological weapon’ outbreak | Weird | News
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…