Bizarre Phenomenon of Light Flashing From Human Eyes Caught on Camera For First Time
Some radiation therapy patients report seeing flashes of light in front of their eyes during treatment – even when their eyes are closed. Now this long-standing mystery may have been…
WW3: Did Pope Francis predict World War will break out – ‘Humanity needs to weep’ | Weird | News
Fears about the future of the world continue to linger following the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and Wednesday morning’s retaliation by Iran. An Iranian missile strike on US…
Astronomers Have Caught This Pulsar Glitching For The Very First Time
After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have finally caught it acting out. A pulsar called PSR J0908-4913 (J0908 for short) has, for the…
Bible news: How 2,000-year-old ’very special’ find in Sea of Galilee ‘matches Jesus’ | Weird | News
The Ancient Galilee Boat, also known as the Jesus Boat, is an ancient fishing boat that dates back to the first century and was found in 1986 during a drought…
Gigantic Wave of Star-Forming Gas Is Largest Known Structure of Its Kind in Milky Way
In 1879, astronomer Benjamin Gould identified what looked to be a ring in the sky, measuring about 3,000 light-years across, made of dust and gas and young stars – interconnected…
SpaceX Just Launched a New Fleet of Its Controversial Starlink Satellites
SpaceX on Monday launched its third batch of 60 mini-satellites into orbit, part of its plans to build a giant constellation of thousands of spacecraft that will form a global…
NASA Discovers Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized World in Star’s ‘Goldilocks’ Zone
NASA’s planet hunter satellite TESS has discovered an Earth-sized world within the habitable range of its star, which could allow the presence of liquid water. Another first for the Transiting…
Astronomers Detect a Binary Star Set to Explode, And You Might Be Alive to See It
An ordinary-looking star system, barely visible in the night sky, appears to have a very bright future in store – and if astronomers’ predictions are right, some of us might…
MH370 news: How plane’s parts made it vulnerable to hijacking exposed | Weird | News
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. Some experts believe the plane may have been…
Elvis Presley shock: Bizarre error on music legend’s gravestone exposed | Weird | News
Elvis, often referred to as “the King of Rock and Roll,” died from a cardiac arrest at his home in Memphis at just 42 years old. His passing, which brought…
Scientists Have Solved One of History’s Weirdest Leonardo da Vinci Mysteries
Scientists may have solved one of the great Leonardo da Vinci painting mysteries – why the glass orb in the Salvator Mundi painting (dated to around 1500 CE) shows no…
UFO sighting: Comet Halley sparks bizarre claims space rock is an ‘alien spaceship’ | Weird | News
Alien life conspiracy theorist Scott Waring took to his etdatabase.com blog to speculate about the bizarre claim about Comet Halley, also known as 1P/Halley. He said: “Guys, I hate to…
Astronomers Just Detected a Second, Epic Neutron Star Collision
Our magnificent gravitational wave astronomers have done it again, adding to the detection collection a new collision between two neutron stars. On 25 April 2019, two neutron stars around 520…
Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin
A mysterious repeating radio signal from space revealed last year is now the fifth fast radio burst to be tracked back to its source galaxy. It’s a location unlike any…
Bushfires Have Driven Mass Extinctions on Earth Before. They Could Do It Again
The catastrophic bushfires raging across much of Australia have not only taken a huge human and economic toll, but also delivered heavy blows to biodiversity and ecosystem function. Already, scientists…
Airbnb’s AI Can Dig Through Your Social Media For Clues You’re a Psychopath
To protect its hosts, Airbnb is now using an AI-powered tool to scan the internet for clues that a guest might not be a reliable customer. According to patent documents…
The Climate Crisis Is Now Detectable in Every Single Day of Weather Across The Planet
The climate changes we humans have inflicted on the planet are now so deeply embedded, they are showing up in our daily weather. Researchers from Switzerland and Norway now claim…
Awe-Inspiring New Hubble Photo Shows a Nearby Active Galaxy, And We Suddenly Feel Tiny
There’s nothing quite like staring into a celestial abyss to put your life in perspective. Perhaps that’s what we all need in 2020. On the brink of a new year,…
Scientists Have Successfully Built a Particle Accelerator Onto a Silicon Chip
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually incredibly huge – instruments for studying some of the fundamentals of particle physics. But now scientists…
UFO bombshell: US Senator vows to declassify UFO files if she wins US presidential race | Weird | News
US Presidential hopeful Amy Klobuchar has revealed how she will reveal what the US government knows about UFOs if elected. The Democratic Minnesota Senator confirmed the promise to look into…
Recent Discoveries Have Overhauled Our Picture of Where Humans Came From, And When
In recent years, anthropologists around the world have discovered new human ancestors, figured out what happened to the Neanderthals, and pushed back the age of the earliest member of our…
Australia’s Bushfires Are Horrifying, But Researchers Think There’s More to Come
Public attention on the disastrous bushfire crisis in Australia will rightly continue for weeks to come. But as we direct resources to coping and recovery, we should not forget other…
Intriguing New Research Indicates Volcanoes Might Still Be Active on Venus
Despite the similarities our world has with Venus, there is still much don’t know about Earth’s “sister planet” and how it came to be. Thanks to its super-dense and hazy…
Terrifying Images Show The Overwhelming Scale of Australia’s Bushfires From Space
Australia’s raging bushfires are so bad that satellites thousands of miles above Earth can easily spot their flames and smoke from space. The fires likely started naturally, though experts think…
Eyeball Planets Might Exist, And They’re as Creepy as They Sound
You’ve heard of hot Jupiters. You’ve heard of mini-Neptunes. You’ve heard of super-Earths. But have you heard of Eyeball Planets? Yep – planetary scientists think there might be a type…
Eyeball Planets Might Exist, And They’re as Creepy as They Sound
You’ve heard of hot Jupiters. You’ve heard of mini-Neptunes. You’ve heard of super-Earths. But have you heard of Eyeball Planets? Yep – planetary scientists think there might be a type…
The Best Time For Researching The Cosmos Is Right Now. Here’s Why
Homo sapiens have been treading this planet for around 350,000 years now. With our primate hands and our primate brains, we have expanded our curiosity beyond Earth’s blue skies, into…
Elvis Presley’s autopsy: Inconsistencies over rock and roll legend’s death exposed | Weird | News
Elvis would have reached the milestone of 85 on Wednesday, but instead passed away on August 16, 1977, following a cardiac arrest in his bathroom. The My Way singer had…
Scientists Find Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal
Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don’t always follow the rules. Scientists have…
World War 3 news: Iran v USA war on the table as Middle East conflict predicted | Weird | News
World War 3 could erupt in the Middle East in the aftermath of the United States assassination of Iran’s revered General Qassem Soleimani. On Friday, January 3, a US airstrike…
MH370 news: Real reason Malaysia Airlines plane was hijacked so quickly exposed | Weird | News
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. At 17:19 UTC on the night of its…
Twitter sent into meltdown over ‘WTF moment’ from Jeremy Paxman on University Challenge | Weird | News
In the video University Challenge presenter Jeremy Paxman makes a quick costume change as he asks a question in a pantomime outfit. The clip was tweeted by BBC journalist Adrian…
The World’s Largest Floating Wind Turbine Just Came Online
In these troubling times we need all the good news we can get, and this week we finally got some: the largest floating wind turbine to date just went online…
Here’s Why We’re Likely to Miss Signs of Alien Life, Even if We Find Them
If we discovered evidence of alien life, would we even realise it? Life on other planets could be so different from what we’re used to that we might not recognise…
NASA Has Reportedly Proposed Taking Japanese Astronauts to The Moon
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine secretly proposed using US rockets to send Japanese astronauts to the Moon, Japanese newspaper The Mainichi reports, citing “multiple sources” familiar with the talks. According to…
A Hidden Underground Chamber Has Been Found in The Palace of Emperor Nero
The grand, sprawling palace built by the Roman Emperor Nero nearly 2,000 years ago has been keeping a secret. While working on restorations in 2019, archaeologists found a secret chamber…
We Just Found Out About Leopard Slug Sex And It’s So Weird That We’re Mesmerised
Under the cover of night, two large leopard slugs begin to court, circling each other, before climbing single-file up a tree or onto a rock. They lower themselves on a…
Scientists Uncover a Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Occurring in The Human Brain
Scientists have discovered a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that’s not been seen before. Excitingly, the discovery hints that our brains might be even more…
Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Keep Appearing at Night Over Colorado
Something strange has been happening in eastern Colorado at night. Since the week of Christmas, giant drones measuring up to 6 feet (1.8 metres) across have been spotted in the…
According to Research, Here’s What’s Likely to Happen in The ’20s. And It’s Not Great
What will happen in the 2020s? If history is any guide (and there’s good reason to think it is), the outlook isn’t great. Here are some big-picture predictions: stagnant real…
End of the world: How US President’s advisor predicted ‘Battle of Armageddon’ in 2020 | Weird | News
Jeane Dixon was one of the best-known US self-proclaimed psychics and astrologers of the 20th century, due to her outrageous newspaper columns that encapsulated the interest of readers. Ms Dixon…
Physicists Calculate How Long It’ll Take Us to Explore The Galaxy, And It’s Brutal
When you’re preparing for any journey it helps to know how long it’ll take, and even more so when we’re talking about the vast distances of space. Now a couple…
VIDEO: Ghost of La Llorona ‘wails’ on camera in Colombia terrifying residents in the area | Weird | News
The “ghost” appears to wail loudly from the treetop in the footage with social media users calling it the scariest thing they’ve ever seen. A ghostly figure of a woman…
UFO sighting: Fiery trail from mysterious object spotted shooting through sky on New Years | Weird | News
Early risers on New Year’s Day were treated to a shocking sight when they noticed a mysterious object shooting through the sky. Along Treasure Coast beach in Florida, what looked…
UFO sighting: Anomaly spotted in Space Shuttle Atlantis photo sparks NASA conspiracy claim | Weird | News
Self-styled alien expert Scott Waring took to his etdatabase.com blog to speculate about the bizarre find. He said: “I found what I believe to be a UFO passing below the…
This Intense Infographic Breaks Down The Biggest Climate News of 2019
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with climate news these days. Every week there’s another story on deforestation, coral bleaching, heat records being smashed… and then smashed again a few months…
A Massive ‘Blob’ of Hot Water Is Threatening New Zealand’s Marine Life
A swath of the Pacific Ocean larger than New South Wales is heating up, and fast. About 800 kilometres (497 miles) east of New Zealand’s South Island, near the Chatham…
Pope Francis slap video: ‘No doubt he will resign in 2020’ claim revealed amid controversy | Weird | News
Yesterday, the Pope found himself at the centre of controversy as footage emerged of him greeting pilgrims at the Vatican. The 83-year-old lost his cool when an unknown woman grabbed…