Curiosity Has Just Sent Back a Bleak Image of Its Lonely View on Mars
Curiosity is climbing. In the Gale Crater it calls home, the Mars rover has been making its way up an eroded pediment called the Central Butte. It’s studying the weather-worn…
Bizarre Calculator Experiment Shows How Reliant People Are on Technology Being ‘Honest’
These days, it’s hard to know whom to trust online, and how to discern genuine content from fakery. Some degree of trust in our devices is necessary, if we’re to…
Here’s How Long It Actually Takes to Break a Habit, According to Science
From daily tooth-brushing to the 11am coffee, we all have dozens of habits that get us through our daily routine. Some are great – weekly gym visits are often encouraged…
Breathtaking Image Shows Clouds on Jupiter Soaring Above Its Swirling Atmosphere
Though it looks like it to us, Jupiter’s clouds do no form a flat surface. Some of its clouds rise up above the surrounding cloud tops. The two bright spots…
Keystone Pipeline Spills 383,000 Gallons of Oil in North Dakota This Week
Approximately 383,000 gallons of crude oil have spilled into a North Dakota wetland this week in the latest leak from the Keystone Pipeline, further fueling long-standing opposition to plans for…
Anti-Vaxxer Claims She Gave Trick-or-Treaters Lollipops Infected With Chicken Pox
An Australian anti-vaxxer mum has reportedly said she was giving trick-or-treaters chicken pox-tainted lollipops for Halloween, claiming the candies would help give kids the infection that her son has so…
Even More Insects Than We Feared Have Disappeared in The Last Decade
The world’s insects are in trouble. In recent years, growing evidence has found a scary number of bugs are missing from the face of our planet. And there’s a chance…
MH370 news: How pilot’s ally was sent to prison hours before plane’s disappearance | Weird | News
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing on March 8, 2014, en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. It is still a mystery what exactly happened…
Scientists Have Made a Quantum Encryptor 1,000 Times Smaller Than What Came Before
One of the ways in which quantum technology promises to revolutionise computing is through quantum key distribution (QKD) – a quantum device that lets people securely encrypt and decrypt communications.…
Asteroid SHOCK: Why a ‘city destroying asteroid’ may still mean complete human extinction | Weird | News
Self-styled research scientist Michael Horn argued that sci-fi disaster films have helped create the narrative that a city-destroying asteroid is only an issue for the city in question. Mr Horn,…
This New Technology Can Fully Charge an Electric Car in Just 10 Minutes
It’s called ‘range anxiety’, and it’s often pointed to as one of the key reasons why consumer uptake of battery-powered electric vehicles still hasn’t really taken off. In a nutshell,…
UFO sighting: Conspiracy theorist reveals ‘alien Moon bases NASA tries to hide from public | Weird | News
An “alien base” has been discovered on the moon – 100 percent proving the existence of extraterrestrial life, according to conspiracy theorists. Self-proclaimed extraterrestrial life expert Scott Waring took to…
Here’s What Tree Planting Can Actually Do For The Climate, According to Science
Elon Musk has pledged to donate US$1 million to a campaign that hopes to plant 20 million trees around the world starting on January 1. He even changed his Twitter…
This Eyeball-Looking Thing Is One of The Biggest Single-Celled Organisms
Throughout the world’s oceans, hidden in coral rubble, you can find strange blobs of various sizes. Named sailor’s eyeballs (Valonia ventricose) these squishy balls are actually an incredibly cool type…
We May Have Been Wrong About The Source of Earth’s Crust Movements, Study Reveals
As solid as our planet’s crust might feel beneath our feet, we’re literally surfing mountains across a churning sea of hot minerals. For years, researchers have struggled to understand what…
Astronomers May Have Detected a Black Hole That’s Unlike Any We’ve Seen Before
It almost seems like astronomers are in a race to unveil the biggest black holes they can find. Most recently, a team of German astronomers claimed to have discovered a…
Ancient Ice Has Revealed The CO2 Cycle of Earth Going Back Nearly 2 Million Years
After more than two years of analysis, the oldest complete ice core has served up a reliable snapshot of our planet’s atmosphere from nearly 2 million years ago. And the…
Hundreds of mysterious ‘witches marks’ found hidden in UK cave | Weird | News
Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have uncovered the scratchings believed to scare-away evil spirits, inside a cavern at Creswell Crags Museum and Heritage Centre. The team using advanced technology and…
New Radar Study Reveals The Failure That Forced The Khmer Empire to Move Its Capital
To this day, the Khmer Empire is remembered for its magnificent capital Angkor, but the legendary Southeast Asian empire moved its seat of power around quite a bit, sometimes with…
Bermuda Triangle: Why ‘startling discovery of 30-foot creature could explain lost ships’ | 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. The vicinity…
The Very First Stars Formed Too Fast For Our Cosmological Models, New Evidence Shows
When we think about the formation of the entire freaking Universe, one of the biggest questions concerns the birth of the very first stars. It’s thought that stars began appearing…
Tree-Planting Campaign Started on YouTube Raises Over $8 Million in Less Than a Week
What started as a meme is now an international movement toward reforestation. When the YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson - aka MrBeast - hit 20 million subscribers on YouTube in May,…
Photos From Space Reveal The True Scale of The Kincade Fire’s Spread in California
The Kincade Fire has been spreading through California wine country for a week, fuelled by powerful winds as it devours dry vegetation. Diablo winds (northern California’s version of the Santa…
Chinese Man Chops Off Own Finger After Snake Bite, Doctors Say It Was Unnecessary
When bitten on the finger by a venomous snake, a farmer in China took the only recourse he thought available to him: he lopped the digit right off before undertaking…
A Scientist Made a Calculator That Shows The Risk of an Actual Vampire Apocalypse
Have you ever wondered how long it would take for the entire world to become vampires? Let say we started out with the set-up from your favourite vampire novel: Do…
Simply Imagining a Bright Light Can Be Enough to Change Your Pupil Size, Study Finds
What goes on in our minds is usually a private affair, but sometimes, our eyes can betray our thoughts. When someone is thinking of a bright image, their pupils will…
Halloween 2019: Ex-devil worshipper hits out a Christians for celebrating festival | Weird | News
Evangelist John Ramirez who claims to have performed witchcraft for a quarter of a century, hit out at people for getting involved in the Halloween spirit on October 31. The…
Ghost news: Mum share video of a ghost in her baby’s crib | Weird | News
American cable news channel, HLN, reported on a scary sighting that became a viral sensation. Maritza Cibuls, a mother from the state of Illinois, posted a terrifying image of her…
End of the world: Why Pope Francis ‘could mark doomsday after prophesied sign from above’ | 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…
StarCraft II Has a New Grandmaster, And It’s Not Human
Video games were invented for humans, by humans. But that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re the best when it comes to playing them. In a new achievement that signifies just how…
Astronomers Have Found an Exoplanet Somewhere It Really Shouldn’t Have Survived
NASA scientists have found an exoplanet located somewhere no exoplanet should be able to survive. The space agency’s exoplanet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has found some pretty neat things…
Some Animals Can Literally Pause Their Pregnancies. Here’s Why
Putting your pregnancy on pause until the time is right to give birth sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel, but for many mammals what’s known as “embryonic diapause”…
Guess Which Company Was Just Crowned The World’s Biggest Plastic Polluter (Again)
On one day in September, people from over 50 countries decided to do something about our plastic problem. Together, they picked up almost half a million pieces of plastic garbage…
In an Unexpected Twist, Plants Enter a Type of ‘Panic’ State When It Rains
Just like us, plants need water to survive, but that doesn’t mean these leafy greens enjoy a downpour any more than we do. When the grey clouds loom and the…
That Interstellar Comet Is Carrying Water From Beyond Our Solar System
Available evidence points to there being a lot of water out there in the Universe, beyond the Solar System. Detecting it and studying it, however, is not exactly easy –…
Latest Estimates Show More People Will Face Rising Waters Than We Ever Expected
Say we stopped emitting greenhouse gases overnight; by the year 2100, the world’s oceans would still likely rise another foot and a half. More realistically, we’ll likely see seas get…
Scientists Say They’ve Found a Place on Earth Where No Life Can Thrive
Where there’s water, there’s life, the thinking loosely goes. New evidence suggests starkly otherwise – or at least identifies some harsh new parameters on where life and water may (or…
Scientists Have Made a Blueprint For a Quantum Battery That Never Loses Charge
A team of scientists from the universities of Alberta and Toronto have laid out the blueprints for a “quantum battery” that never loses its charge. To be clear, this battery…
Migrating Eagles Bankrupted a Russian Science Study With Excessive Mobile Charges
It’s not easy studying birds. They fly away for months at a time, and even if you can track them down again, their frivolous texting habits threaten to leave you…