Jet suit paramedic takes Lake District test flight
Inventor Richard Browning puts potentially life-saving suit through its paces in ‘groundbreaking exercise.’
— The Guardian
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Scientists Reveal More About Volcanic Eruption That Rocked the Ancient Maya
Using a combination of archaeological and geological evidence, the date of the infamous Tierra Blanca Joven eruption has been pinpointed.
— Gizmodo
Scientists Claim to Explain How and Why There’s a Black Hole in the Center of the Earth
It's hypothesized the black hole is the size of a grain of sand but has the weight of the Moon.
— Mysterious Universe
A Modest Proposal: We Should Hibernate Through the Rest of the Pandemic
We are about to face a very bleak winter due to COVID-19. If we could induce torpor in humans, we could sleep through the whole thing.
— Motherboard
The chilling experiment which created the first vaccine
Smallpox used to kill millions. But a chance discovery led to the first vaccine, and a transformation in human health.
— BBC Future
Did Early Christians Use Psychedelics?
Author Brian Muraresku argues that many ancient religions used psychedelics as a way of communing with the divine.
— Daily Beast
A Distant Blue Star Hosts One of the Most Extreme Exoplanets Known to Science
The ultra-hot Jupiter-sized planet is known as WASP-189b.
— Gizmodo
A climate anomaly may have worsened the 1918 pandemic and WWI
Climate and infectious diseases have always been intertwined.
— Popular Science
Area 51 themed haunted house opens in Canada
The attraction is featured at the 'Deadmonton Haunted House' in Edmonton.
— Mystery Wire
Woman Shocked to Discover Two Long Needles Embedded in Her Brain
The discovery occurred to a Chinese woman who underwent a CT scan following a minor car accident.
— Oddity Central
Studies Suggest Crows Are As Smart As Humans
Crows and ravens can 'know and ponder the content of their own minds.'
— Stat News
200 Rare Stolen Books Discovered Under Floorboards in Romania
Rare first editions by Galileo, Isaac Newton were stolen in daring London heist in 2017.
— Smithsonian
New Bird Song Emerges During Pandemic
During the quiet caused by the quarantine, sparrows in San Francisco create a new call.
— Futurism
Evidence for Fossil Forest Fires
'Some plants evolved to benefit from fire,'
— JSTOR
Lasers to Cut The Air For Hypersonic Weapons
DoD using laser-generated plasma to increase flight speeds.
— The Drive
Real-life Inception as scientists figure out how to plant ideas in dreams
Researchers at MIT have been testing a fascinating new technique called targeted dream incubation, which allows them to insert certain topics into someone else's dreams
— Daily Star
Area 51 has a huge new hangar facility that points to a drone swarm future
The Air Force is accelerating its advanced combat drone development efforts and the facility's unique attributes seem perfect for supporting them.
— The Drive
Are some black holes wormholes in disguise?
Unusual flashes of gamma rays could reveal that what appear to be giant black holes are actually huge wormholes.
— LiveScience
A student just proved paradox-free time travel is possible
Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a new paper says—resolving an age-old paradox.
— Popular Mechanics
Couple spots 'bus-sized' creature in Loch Ness
Corey Sturrock and his wife had been out for a walk when they spotted something very large in the water.
— Unexplained Mysteries
Where is the most haunted place in Cambridge?
From its marshy beginnings at the edge of the fens, Cambridge has been a liminal place where boundaries between land and water, solid and spectral, are blurred.
— Cambridge Independent
Man dies after eating bag of licorice every day for a few weeks
A Massachusetts construction worker's love of black licorice wound up costing him his life, doctors say.
— The Guardian
Alexander Fleming's original penicillin fungus is regrown by scientists
The penicillin mold accidentally grown by physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming in London in 1928 has had its genome sequenced for the first time.
— Mail Online
5G wireless radiation 'leakage' may lead to incorrect weather forecasts
A new study finds radiation “leakage” from 5G networks may throw off weather satellites, giving you a bad forecast.
— Study Finds
Russian scientist claims team battled creature under Antarctic ice
A defecting Russian scientist has surfaced with a mind-bending account of what really occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice.
— Yahoo! News
'Giant impact' theory of moon's formation gets another boost
Scientists have found yet more differences between Earth and moon rocks.
— Space.com
Mysterious Horse Mutilations in Europe Spread to Sweden
Many European news sources report that the first Swedish horse mutilation took place about a month ago.
— Mysterious Universe
Cult leader who claims to be reincarnation of Jesus arrested in Russia
Former traffic officer Sergei Torop, AKA Vissarion, arrested in special operation in Siberia.
— The Guardian
Twinkling, star-shaped brain cells may hold the key to why, how we sleep
Astrocytes could be as important to the regulation of sleep as neurons, the brain's nerve cells.
— Medical Xpress
Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under
The meteorite may have been longer than two football fields.
— Live Science