Life on Mars: UFO hunter is convinced NASA photo of ‘alien face’ proves aliens are real | Weird | News
Well-known alien conspiracy theorist Scott Waring made the shocking claims about the intriguingly-shaped Mars anomaly on his etdatabase.com blog. He said: “I found this amazing side view of a face…
Atlantis FOUND? ‘Clear and obvious evidence’ Plato’s lost city sunk near Britain revealed | Weird | News
Atlantis is the fictional island first described by Greek writer Plato in his texts Timaeus and Critias, said to be an antagonist naval power that besieges “Ancient Athens”. In the…
Makeshift Koala Hospital in Australia Scrambles to Save Animals Hurt in Bushfires
Dozens of injured koalas arrive at the Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park’s makeshift animal hospital each day in cat carriers, washing baskets or clinging to wildlife carers. Injured in bushfires that…
Scientists Discover Stunning Flower-Like Patterns When Bacteria Combine
Pop a bacterium in a petri dish on an agar nutrient medium and it will go about its business, growing in its own special way. Escherichia coli grows pretty slowly…
Nothingness Has Friction, And The Fastest Spinning Object Ever Made Could Measure It
Scientists have created the fastest spinning object ever made, taking them a big step closer to being able to measure the mysterious quantum forces at play inside ‘nothingness’. The record-breaking…
Antarctic Experiment Reveals Strange ‘Ghost’ Particles That Physicists Can’t Explain
When physicists detected signals of high-energy neutrinos coming from a rather unlikely direction in the cosmos, they naturally went looking for a powerful source that might explain it. An intense…
Giant Sinkhole Swallows an Entire Bus in China as People Run For Their Lives
An enormous sinkhole swallowed a bus and pedestrians in northwest China, sparking an explosion and killing nine people, state media said Tuesday. Footage showed people at a bus stop running…
Researchers Say There’s One Way Future Droughts Could Lead to Less Conflict
It’s often assumed that as climate change worsens, so too will the world’s risk of violent armed conflict. Over the years, many experts have warned that as weather becomes more…
The Ocean Is Warming at a Rate of 5 Atom Bombs Per Second, Scientists Warn
After analyzing data from the 1950s through 2019, an international team of scientists determined that the average temperature of the world’s oceans in 2019 was 0.075 degrees Celsius (0.135 degrees…
India terror: Horrifying gang of 400 monkeys force panicked villagers to flee homes | Weird | News
The monkeys have reportedly been stealing food and ransacking homes, causing many of the locals to flee their homes, in the Indian village of Narasapuram. In total, some 400 monkeys…
This Ancient Tree Species Is Virtually Immortal, And We Finally Understand How
The passage of time holds few changes for the Ginkgo biloba tree, commonly known as the maidenhair. For tens of millions of years and through mass extinctions, this “botanical oddity”…
ISS live feed shock: NASA interrupted by space anomaly ‘on fire’ during stream | Weird | News
Today, astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are scheduled to conduct the first of three spacewalks in January to finish replacing nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries that store power…
Afterlife breakthrough? Scientist’s shock ‘place soul goes to’ after death theory revealed | Weird | News
The idea of life after death has long fascinated humanity, as many are concerned about what happens to our souls when we die. Some religions, including Christianity, teach the essential…
UFO sighting: ‘Glowing object’ caught on NASA live stream prompts claims ‘UFOs are real’ | Weird | News
Self-styled UFO expert Scott Waring made the outlandish claims about the ISS anomaly on his etdatabase.com site. He said: “I was watching the NASA live stream and noticed this huge…
Tardigrades Are Basically Indestructible, But Scientists Just Found Their Weak Point
Tardigrades are tough little critters. When conditions get nasty, they can dry out, reconfigure their bodies and enter suspended animation – called dessication – for years. You can throw virtually…
Australian ‘Megablaze’ Finally Brought Under Control After Raging For Almost 3 Months
Exhausted firefighters said they had finally brought Australia’s largest “megablaze” under control Monday, as wet weather promised to deliver much-needed respite for countryside ravaged by bushfires. New South Wales firefighters…
Tons of Rotting Pig Carcasses Are Teaching Us What Happens During Mass Animal Die-Offs
The unprecedented wildfire raging across Australia is not only destroying human lives, but has killed hundreds of millions of animals – perhaps billions before it is all over. Burning is…
Scientists Have Built The First-Ever Robots Constructed Entirely Out of Living Cells
In another lifetime, if they had been allowed to follow their natural development, the stem cells taken from embryonic frogs would have turned into skin and heart tissue within living,…
DNA Test Company Sells Rights to Drug Compound Based on Customers’ Genetic Data
23andMe’s absolutely massive bank of human genetic data – one of the largest such repositories in the world – is starting to pay off in new ways, both medically and…
UN Unveils Desperate Blueprint to Protect at Least 30% of Our Planet by 2030
Thirty percent of Earth’s surface across land and sea should become protected areas by 2030 to ensure the viability of ecosystems essential to human wellbeing, according to a UN plan…
First Detailed Ultrasound Images of Pregnant Dolphins Are Both Beautiful And Tragic
Swimming through petroleum-infested waters is not exactly good for a dolphin’s health, and if that dolphin is pregnant, the ramifications are even more dire. Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill…
New Super-Light Form of ‘Plastic’ Gold Is 18-Carat But Weighs Up to 10 Times Less
It might look like any old 18-carat nugget of gold, but it hides a secret. Produced in the lab, this shiny disc weighs just a fraction of what it should,…
End of the world: Pope ‘central to apocalypse prophecy’ as doomsday reference revealed | Weird | News
Saint Malachy was the Archbishop of Armagh, to whom several miracles were attributed to in the 12th-century. In 1139, Malachy went to Rome from Ireland to give an account of…
The Oldest Known Material on Earth Is Officially Older Than The Solar System
The oldest solid material on Earth has just been identified, and it predates the Solar System itself by at least a few hundred million years. The teensy tiny microscopic grains…
Crater Left by One of Earth’s Biggest Ever Meteorite Impacts Finally Found
About 800,000 years ago, a monster space rock struck the Earth hard and fast. The impact of the 1.2 mile-wide (1.9 kilometre-wide) meteorite flung debris across 10 percent of the…
The Milky Way Ate Another Galaxy, And This Star Can Tell Us When It Happened
Astronomers recently discovered that a long time ago, a collision with a satellite galaxy did something interesting to the Milky Way, puffing up its disc and seeding its halo with…
Giant Gold Bar Found in Mexico City Park Turns Out to Be Looted Aztec Treasure
A gold bar found in a Mexico City park in 1981 was part of the Aztec treasure looted by Hernan Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago, a new…