The image is a bit fuzzy, but to scientists it’s unmistakable: One of the largest icebergs ever recorded has broken free of Antarctica. The scale of the giant ice block, dubbed A-68, is truly awesome: roughly the area of Delaware, the mass of 5.6 Mount Everests, and voluminous enough to...
One of the brightest stars in the night sky, Betelgeuse, is losing its shine as it might soon go supernova. It is believed that the red giant might be nearing the end of its life as it is the dimmest it has ever been in over 75 years. But...
Scientists have found that the reversal of a person's biological age or epigenetic clock is possible through the administration of a growth hormone and certain diabetes medications. Researchers volunteers in a California study were given a cocktail of three common drugs for one year- a growth hormone and two diabetes...
Researchers who visited one of the world's newest and most unique islands last year discovered a mysterious, sticky mud, said NASA. The island is located in the South Pacific near Tonga and is unofficially called Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai (Hunga Tonga). It came into being after a volcanic eruption in late...
A LARGE chunk of the Earth equivalent to a billion years of rock formation is missing from our planet’s crust, and scientists finally understand why. Scientists have known for some time that there is a huge gap in our planet’s geological record, known as the ‘Great Unconformity’, but had been...
Scientists at the Manchester Museum have found out that the Two Brother's mummies at the Museum have different fathers. Like a next-level version of Jeremy Kyle, DNA was extracted from the teeth, and analysis showed that both Nakht-Ankh and Khnum-Nakht have a maternal relationship. The Y chromosome sequences were less...
Some 420 million years ago, 23% of all marine life went extinct. Referred to as Lau/Kozlowskii extinction by scientists, this mass extinction is amongst the ten most dramatic extinctions that the earth has ever faced. Yet for years, scientists didn’t know what lead to it and what implications it...
SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk said on social media this week his internet venture, Starlink, will go into its public beta testing phase “very soon”. ELON MUSK’S STARLINK SATELLITE CONSTELLATION EMERGENCY RESPONSE ASSISTANCE This follows after CNBC’s Michael Sheetz reported that SpaceX is working with Washington’s emergency response team “to bring...
In case you were disappointed the world didn't end on September 23, 2017, buck up! Now it's supposed to end on April 23. So, we've all got ten days. Give up your diet, drink like crazy, shoplift candy, it's the end. According to codes in the Bible (Book of Revelation...
Turkish police have seized a Bible thought to be 1,200 years old from a suspected smuggling gang. Six people have been arrested after allegedly attempting the sell the ancient manuscript in the southeastern Diyarbakir province. The Biblical text was written across 34 pages of leather with gold-encrusted religious motifs. Police are investigating...