The frog is alive, AKA not decaying in death, and yet it has some fungi hitching a ride on its body. Obviously scientists are baffled.
On the undesirable roster of illnesses, cancer and HIV are notably high-ranking. One Californian man found himself afflicted with both, and then potentially cured of both after a miraculous donor treatment.
This week, a scientific journal published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators. You’re going to want to see it but don’t believe it.
There are a very special few individuals who possess abilities that defy complete explanation by experts.
The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be 91 kilometres long, dwarfing its predecessor, the 27 kilometres Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Only two northern white rhinos remain on earth, both female. The last male, Sudan, died in 2018, leaving the rhino subspecies doomed to extinction.
Scientists examining a unique society of mixed-species dolphins in Greece recently discovered a unique specimen with thumbs.
The AI revolution is speeding ahead, and it’s taking our brains with it.
At around 3,600 metres above sea level, in a place where no roads go, scientists found the exotic prehistoric world new to science.
In an extraordinary turn of events, the elusive De Winton’s golden mole, believed extinct for nearly 90 years, has been detected in South Africa.
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.
Geneticists at the University of Konstanz in Germany have however released a new study on baboon DNA that shows these creatures never naturally occurred in Egypt.
While it is true that in the summer of 2016, a terrifying disease clawed its way out of the previously frozen ground, sending chills across the globe as the media rang the alarm over ‘zombie viruses’ coming from melting permafrost, this seems to be less of a concern to scientists watching the world warm.
The finding has finally given some credence to accounts of near-death experiences, in which life flashes before your eyes, in a phenomenon dubbed by researchers as “life recall.”
The scientists expressed their alarm and fear for reaching this dire crossroads, warning that the climate crisis could threaten the lives of up to six billion people this century.
When we are told that NASA is sending two modified jets to Cape Town we all immediately wonder if the organisation is seeking out extraterrestrial life forms here – right?
By 2040, there could be more than one man on the moon.
“Give me fuel! Give me fire!” the award-winning metal band sings on top of their characteristic guitar power chords.
“Our own Sun experienced a phase like this long ago, and now we have the technology to see the beginning of another’s star’s story.”
Yes, just like a cockroach, lightning can use your plumbing as a conduit, and even just washing your hands can make you a perfect target for Thor’s bolts.
One would not be remiss if they didn’t immediately think ‘Ka-Ching!’ when imagining a hunk of smelly whale vomit.
An author remembers the experience of his father, a cattle farmer who shot to infamy after recounting, during a hypnosis session, the alien abductions that would regularly occur on his farm.
Sound not being able to travel in space hasn’t stopped NASA from producing musical tones from the same telescope data that shows us such stunning pictures of deep space.
While there’s no man or rabbit on the moon, NASA says there might actually be something on the moon.
Feeling small is nice if you just go with it and pretend you’re an atom being sucked into the void, without bills or adult friendships to worry over.
A plummeting green light burned through the sky over Australia on Saturday with such a brilliant flash that it could be seen for miles.
In 1997, researchers decided it would be interesting to investigate three zombies, each of whom had been recognised by locals as long-deceased individuals returning from the dead.
Black holes are so massive that not even light can escape, which is how you know you’re basically nothing in comparison.
Talk about a supernova explosion.
“Do we have a lady? Check. Do we have a black person? Affirmative. Do we have all the woke boxes checked for history-making and viral fame? It’ll do.”