That Rogue Interstellar Comet Was Imaged Almost a Year Before Its Actual Discovery
It may have only been officially discovered in August 2019, but the tremendously exciting interstellar comet 2I/Borisov was already well inside the Solar System at that point. And, after poring…
The First Map of Saturn’s Moon Titan Just Revealed Some Tantalising Features
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists on Monday unveiled the first global geological map of Saturn’s moon Titan including vast plains and dunes of frozen organic material and lakes of liquid methane,…
NASA Just Confirmed There Are Water Plumes Above The Surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
A team led by researchers out of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has confirmed traces of water vapor above the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. And…
Scientists Have Detected a Rapid Spike of a Widely Overlooked Greenhouse Gas
Carbon dioxide and methane aren’t the only greenhouse gases the world needs to worry about. The rapid rise of nitrous oxide (N2O), colloquially known as ‘laughing gas’, is no joke…
For The First Time, Scientists See The Sun Transfer Energy From Its Interior to Atmosphere
You can’t tell from Earth, but the Sun’s outer atmosphere is hundreds of times hotter than its surface – it’s a long-standing mystery that astrophysicists have been working on for…
What’s The Real Human Equivalent of Your Dog’s Age? Here’s a New Formula
No one knows how it started, or where it came from, but the idea that you can convert your dog’s age to human years by multiplying by seven? Total myth.…
Neolithic People in The Near East Made Jewellery Out of Human Teeth
The Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in what is now Turkey has an enigmatic history, being one of the world’s earliest urban centres. The people who lived there had some interesting…
Are We Really in a 6th Mass Extinction? Here’s The Science
For more than 3.5 billion years, living organisms have thrived, multiplied and diversified to occupy every ecosystem on Earth. The flip side to this explosion of new species is that…
Here’s The Truth About That Bizarre Catfish-Egg-Coke-Mentos Video
What began as a day like any other ended with a haunting quest to source a viral video of a man apparently capturing catfish using Coca-Cola brand soda, Mentos, and…
End of the world: How 900-year-old Pope prophecy MATCHES Mayan calendar prediction | 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…
‘Greta Thunberg’ spotted on 120-year-old photo triggering bizarre alien claims on web | Weird | News
Greta Thunberg is the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. Now a photo, taken approximately 105 years before Ms Thunberg’s birth, has come…
Bermuda Triangle mystery SOLVED: How ‘key clue’ helped investigator unravel famous case | Weird | News
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil’s Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, where a number of aircraft and ships have disappeared. On December…
Scientists Capture Spectacularly Rare Footage of Deep-Sea Fish Devouring a Whole Shark
Feasts are rare on the barren landscape of the ocean depths. So researchers couldn’t believe their luck when they stumbled on a feeding frenzy of deep-sea sharks chowing down on…
Entire Koala Colonies Are Being Ravaged by Australia’s Devastating, Ongoing Bushfires
The lucky ones escaped the inferno with singed ears and burned feet, clinging to rescuers who came to save the already imperiled koalas. But hundreds others of already vulnerable koalas…
70% of Venice Is Now Submerged, And It’s a Disturbing Preview For Coastal Cities
More tidewater roared into Venice on Friday, layering more catastrophic floods into the lagoon city and panicking residents over the viability of living on the lip of the Adriatic Sea.…
NASA Has Detected Weird Orbital Movement From Two of Neptune’s Moons
Life isn’t always easy for astrophysicists: just when they’ve figured out another aspect of the patterns of movement in our Solar System, along come two of the moons of Neptune…
Asteroid Warning: ‘God of Chaos Apophis asteroid may set world back to prehistoric times – | Weird | News
Michael Horn, who calls himself a research scientist, has warned that if the Apophis asteroid strikes the planet it has the destructive power to send the Earth back to prehistoric…
Is Your Cat in Pain? Their Face Might Hold Subtle Clues
They say that eyes are windows to the soul. Indeed, research suggests this might also be true for our four-legged friends. Since the days of our most celebrated natural historian,…
Physicists Detect Strange Electron Pairs Acting as a Brand New State of Matter
Under the right circumstances, individual electrons can form partnerships that allow them to zip effortlessly through special materials called superconductors – letting them conduct electrical current without resistance. That in…
Scientists Have Created an ‘Unsinkable’ Metal That Floats Even When Damaged
It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided with an iceberg in 1912. Before the disaster, the ship was said to be unsinkable thanks…
New Quantum Physics Experiment Suggests Objective Reality Doesn’t Exist
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have even infected science – at least the quantum realm. This may seem counter intuitive. The scientific…
NASA’s New Mars Rover Is Going to a Place Perfect For Preserving Fossils
Back in November 2018, NASA announced that the Mars 2020 rover would land in the Jezero Crater. Jezero Crater is a geologically diverse area, with an alluvial fan of sediment…
Microsoft Is Hiding Open Source Code in an Apocalypse-Proof Storage Facility
Next to the famous Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, is an abandoned coal mine protecting a different kind of resource against the end of the world: all of GitHub’s…
This Adorable ‘Unicorn’ Puppy Has a Tail on His Face. Here’s How That’s Possible
Narwhal is by many measures a normal puppy. Caregivers say he likes to nibble on fingers and give kisses and wants to play with anyone nearby. On the other hand,…
Scientists Just Reconstructed The Family Tree of The Biggest Giant Ape That Ever Lived
With the help of analysis carried out on proteins in 2-million-year-old tooth enamel, researchers have charted out the family tree of the extinct Gigantopithecus blacki ape, and found it’s directly…
Gorgeous Collection of Fossil Feathers Reveals How Dinosaurs Kept Warm in Ancient Gondwana
Life for dinosaurs living at the South Pole wouldn’t have been easy. Sure, it wasn’t the icy hellscape it is today, but the long, dark winters still would have been…
Professors Are Listing Their Kids as Co-Authors of Studies, For Totally Dodgy Reasons
There’s an unusual trend on the rise in South Korean academia: professors are naming children and teens as co-authors on their research, likely to boost their resumes for college admissions.…
TESS Data May Already Hold a Clue to The Mysterious Planet Nine
There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar System, messing with the orbits of some of the Kuper Belt rocks out past Neptune. Some…