“I thought, ‘I don’t know if it’s possible to poop while running, but I will try’,” runner Tamara Torlakson said of her all-time-best run, which was only marred slightly by a mid-race bowel movement. “I didn’t want one poop to mess it all up.” Torlakson, like so many other athletes, focused on the race and […]
Is It Possible You Never Going To Die? People Are Confused By Quantum Immortality
A video going around TikTok has people confused about quantum immortality, and believing that it might mean that they will live forever. “Quantum immortality suggests that nobody ever actually dies; that consciousness never experiences death,” host of the Your One Black Friend podcast Joli Moli said on TikTok. “Instead, whenever you die in one universe […]
Incredible Space Visualization Lets You Fly By 5,000 Galaxies As Seen By JWST
Last year, scientists in the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) program on JWST found one of the most distant galaxies ever observed. Nicknamed Maisie’s Galaxy after the daughter of one of the discoverers, its light comes to us from just 390 million years after the Big Bang – the time when galaxies were being […]
Strand Of The Cosmic Web Spotted By JWST Is Earliest Ever Found
Galaxies big and small are now peppered across the universe like the blueberries in a muffin. They are distributed in what we call the cosmic web, a much less appetizing construct. Galaxies can be quite isolated, or in small groups, or large clusters, but if you zoom out, all these groupings are connected by filaments. […]
Norway Discovers Enough Phosphate To Solve World’s Needs For 50 Years
A Norwegian mining company claims to have discovered a gargantuan deposit of phosphate rock that could power the world’s battery and solar needs for the next 50 years, potentially pushing back what was previously described as a “ticking time bomb”. Phosphate is an integral part of the global push for renewables, alongside being a key […]
Martian Dunes Reveal The End Of Its Last Ice Age
The longstanding theory that Mars is emerging from an ice age has gained support from the Zhurong rover. The rover has produced evidence of a changing wind regime at just the time the Martian glacial period is thought to have ended, leaving a recognizable signal in the dunes of Utopia Planitia. For more than 20 […]
SpaceX Under Fire As Scientists Find Evidence Starlink Satellites Are Leaking Radiation
Astronomers have offered some of the first direct proof demonstrating that Starlink satellites are interfering with deep space research, with their emissions drifting outside of their allocated bands. The evidence grows to an increasingly loud chorus from scientists condemning the thick field of communications satellites that the Musk-owned company relies on to provide global internet, […]
Expert Warns A “Priority Disease” Threatens To Spread In The UK
Cases of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) – known as one of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) nine “priority diseases” due to its severity – are threatening to arise across broader parts of Europe, with experts saying it’s ”highly likely” it will spread within the UK in the near future. CCHF is a tick-borne disease that’s […]
Shiniest Planet Ever Discovered Is The Largest Known “Mirror” In The Universe
Clouds can reflect a lot of sunlight. Earth’s clouds reflect around 30 percent of sunlight back into space while Venus, completely covered in clouds, reflects 75 percent, making it the brightest object in our night sky. Now, astronomers have found an exoplanet that is even shinier. Exoplanet LTT9779b reflects 80 percent of the starlight it […]
Creationists Claim They’ve Found The Body Of Goliath, Miss One Obvious Flaw
Being a “young Earth creationist” can’t be easy, believing the Earth is 6-12,000 years old despite all evidence to the contrary. People are often digging up evidence of life going back before 10,000 BCE, or else digging through rock that dates back hundreds of millions of years before God supposedly had a busy week of […]
How Do I Stop My Mind Racing And Get Some Sleep?
Martin turns off the light to fall asleep, but his mind quickly springs into action. Racing thoughts about work deadlines, his overdue car service, and his father’s recent surgery occupy his mind. As he struggles to fall asleep, the hours start to creep by. He becomes frustrated about how he will cope tomorrow. This is […]
How Splitting Sound Might Lead To A New Kind Of Quantum Computer
When you turn on a lamp to brighten a room, you are experiencing light energy transmitted as photons, which are small, discrete quantum packets of energy. These photons must obey the sometimes strange laws of quantum mechanics, which, for instance, dictate that photons are indivisible, but at the same time, allow a photon to be […]
What Do The Different Colours Of Mould Mean In My House?
You may be interested (or possibly horrified) to discover you ingest and inhale thousands of tiny life forms on a daily basis. The air and surfaces around you are home to multitudes of bacteria, fungi, viruses, mites, algae and protozoa. Your skin isn’t much better, with a complex ecosystem of organisms called commensals which aren’t […]
People Are Wondering What The Glitter Conspiracy Is All About
Glitter: the product that is essential in many sparkly Christmas decorations, children’s artwork, horrendous pranks, and the bane of many hoovers. It is a substance that gets everywhere and is almost impossible to remove. However, the time of the glitter era may be coming to an end, as there is rumor that we are currently […]
Blasting Lava With Lasers Could Help Forecast When A Volcano May Erupt
When you hear news reports about volcanoes spewing lava and ash, you may worry about the people nearby. In fact, almost one in ten people around the world live within 100 kilometres of an active volcano. For those living close to volcanoes, farming on their fertile soils, or visiting their spectacular landscapes, it is crucial […]
Primate Clitorises Come In More Shapes And Sizes Than We Ever Imagined
Step right up, as we take you on a voyage of discovery into the weird and wonderful world of the primate clitoris. Penises are so last year – it’s about time we turned our attention to the female of the species. That’s an opinion shared by the scientists behind new research that set out to […]
The Mystery Of Why Antarctica’s Blood Falls Oozes Red Has Been Revealed
When British geographer Thomas Griffith Taylor made his daring venture through East Antarctica in 1911, his expedition stumbled across a terrifying sight: the edge of a glacier appearing to ooze a stream of blood. After a century of speculation, the cause of the Blood Falls has been pinpointed. Scientists in the US used powerful transmission […]
Massive Heat-Emitting Mass Discovered Buried Under The Surface Of The Moon
A large mass of granite that has been slowly releasing heat has been discovered buried underneath a crater on the Moon. This is not science fiction, it’s ancient volcanism. The Moon used to have lava fields and eruptions, but astronomers had never actually found a more traditional Earth-like volcano – until they looked at what […]
Internet Figures Out Which Muppets Are Predators And Which Are Prey Based On Their Eyes
A number of memes have caught our predator eyes lately, and got us thinking about the predator-prey relationship of various puppets and toys. “The Furby’s eyes are on the front of the head,” one iconic but now deleted tweet explains, “which implies that it’s a predator.” Another makes a similar observation, but about the Cookie […]
Tiny Extinct Penguin Was One Of The Smallest To Ever Walk The Earth
New Zealand is currently home to three of the world’s penguin species, including the smallest living penguin: the little penguin. A recent discovery of two fossilized skulls has found a potentially even smaller penguin species that might have been the ancestor to those living today. Meet Eudyptula wilsonae. The new fossil specimens were found in […]
