How can we predict the future? A good way is to look into the past, and who better to ask than one of Earth’s longest-living animals: the quahog clam. These modest mollusks don’t look like much, but their shells tell a staggering story as they store a record of the environmental conditions across their lifespan. […]
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New Blood Test Offers Potential For “Simple, Accurate” ME/CFS Diagnosis, Researchers Claim – Other Experts Aren’t So Sure
Scientists researching myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), have claimed to have developed the first-ever blood test for the condition. ME/CFS is a debilitating, long-term illness that can cause people to experience extreme fatigue, sleep problems, difficulty thinking, and a worsening of their symptoms after any type of activity. It’s thought to […]
In 1927, A Physicist Conducted A Mass Psychic Experiment Involving 25,000 People
In 1927, a respected physicist conducted one of the largest experiments into telepathy the world has ever undertaken, involving over 25,000 participants. Born in 1851, Oliver Lodge was an English physicist whose work was key to the development of radio communication, creating a device that became standard in wireless telegraph receivers after he demonstrated it […]
Check Out This “Truly Exceptional” Fossil Of A Two-Headed Reptile That Lived 125 Million Years Ago
In 2006, a study published in the journal Biology Letters described a fossil unlike any ever seen before. It captured a prehistoric reptile that lived around 125 million years ago. That, in itself, wasn’t terribly surprising, but the fact that it had two heads really, really was. Bicephalism describes a quirk in animal development that […]
Longest Woolly Rhino Horn Ever Recovered Just Popped Out Of The Siberian Permafrost
If stretched out straight, this recently discovered woolly rhino horn would be taller than Lady Gaga with a hat on. It’s the longest rhino horn of its kind ever recovered, a record-breaking relic that’s shedding new light on one of the Ice Age’s most mysterious megabeasts. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. […]
Deer Can Learn Commands Like “Come”, But The Most Restless Ones In Class Take Longer To Learn
Training animals in captivity for vital instances like health checks and being able to give them medicines is a necessary part of the job, but it is not without its challenges. While logistics have a part to play, the individual personality of the animal is also a big factor, as researchers in Brazil found when […]
Is This Evidence Of The “Oldest Human Habit”? A New Study Has Different Ideas
Nail-biting and nose-picking have probably been around since our ancient ancestors walked the Earth, but these habits don’t leave much of a physical trace. Tooth-picking, on the other hand, does – or so it was thought. For decades, anthropologists have examined the dental remains of prehistoric hominins and noticed deep, V-shaped notches near the gum […]
Winds On Mars Are Faster Than Thought, Analysis Of 1,039 Dust Devils Shows
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter are excellent spacecraft that have provided insights into the Red Planet time and time again. They are also capable of doing things beyond their standard job. They recently looked at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. They were also used to measure the winds on the […]
400,000-Year-Old Fossil Shows Butchering Elephants Helped Early Humans To Supersize Their Tools
Elephants were on the menu for hominins living in Italy 400,000 years ago, and a rare fossil reveals the tools they used, as well as those they got out of the process. It’s no secret that our ancestors, and some other branches of the human family tree, liked a big meal. There’s evidence, for example, […]
Ignore The Nonsense: Here Are The Real Images Of Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
On July 1 this year, astronomers discovered an object moving through the Solar System at escape velocity, our third interstellar visitor that we know about. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is now known to be a comet due to outgassing as it gets closer to the Sun on its way through the Solar System. Astronomers have […]
This Rare Spider Is Half-Female, Half-Male Split Down The Middle – Oh, And A New Species
This pocket-sized new spider is rocking a unique look. Near perfectly split down the middle, its left legs are dark orange while its right is a whitish salt-and-pepper color. Remarkably, this is not just an aesthetic division: one side of the body is female and the other is male. Scientists at Chulalongkorn University and Ubon […]
Comet 3I/ATLAS Caught On Camera From Mars Orbit: “This Was A Challenge”
Over the last week, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) spacecraft Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) were tasked with an unusual request; instead of looking down onto the Red Planet as they usually do, they looked into space. There, they tried to catch a glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Team is still analyzing […]
JWST Captures Best Image Yet Of A Supergiant Star Before It Went Supernova
Images taken by JWST reveal the star that became SN2025pht before it exploded, providing our best view of a red supergiant proto-supernova. The cloud of dust hiding the star from our eyes may answer the question of why we haven’t seen more. SN2025pht was spotted on June 29 this year. Its location, 40 million light-years […]
Isaac Newton’s “Apocalypse Calculations” Predicted A World-Changing Event In 2060
It’s a credit to how good Isaac Newton was at physics and math that people rarely mention that time he threatened to burn his mother’s house down, or the equally baffling time he stuck a number of needles into his own eyeballs to see what would happen. Yes, when Newton wasn’t revolutionizing our notions of […]
2024-25 Saw The Most US Kids Dying From Flu Since The Swine Flu Pandemic
Newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the 2024-25 flu season was a tough one for the nation’s children, with 280 pediatric deaths recorded. This marks the worst season for child mortality since records of pediatric flu deaths began in 2004 – except, that is, for the H1N1 […]
Technology, Tactics, Or Just Toughing It Out: How Exactly Did Neanderthals Take Down Mammoths, Anyway?
Consider taking on a mammoth – an animal easily more than twice your height and perhaps 150 times your weight, which roamed in herds and came armed, or rather, toothed, with 3 or 4 meters (10-13 feet) of heavy facial weaponry with which to defend themselves – and you’d be forgiven for thinking twice about the […]
Nobel Prize In Chemistry Awarded For New Material Breakthrough
The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry are Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar Yaghi, “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”. The prize is worth 11 million Swedish kronor (around $1,170,000 USD at the time of publishing), which will be shared equally between the winners. The rest of this article is behind a […]
Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS May Be A 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule From An Earlier Age Of The Universe
A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path through the galaxy in simulations involving over 13 million stars. On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual object speeding through the Solar System at nearly twice the velocity of previous interstellar visitors ‘Oumuamua and […]
Restless Leg Syndrome Might Increase Someone’s Risk Of Parkinson’s Disease
A new study of over 9,900 people with restless leg syndrome (RLS) has suggested that the condition appears to increase the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease (PD). RLS is a neurological condition characterized by an irresistible urge to move the legs, often spurred on uncomfortable sensations in the legs when at rest, leg twitching during […]
Behold! The World’s First Butt-Drag Fossil, Committed By A Rock Hyrax 126,000 Years Ago
Do you ever stop and think about how wonderful it is that it’s so easy for you to scratch your butt? No? Well, perhaps a first-of-its-kind fossil can inspire you to practice a little more gratitude, as it reveals the butt-drag of a rock hyrax committed to the fossil record 126,000 years ago. The rest […]



















