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A shocking new video shows members of an uncontacted tribe in Indonesia approach the miners who are destroying their land, begging them for food. The footage (below) is a tragic insight into the Hongana Manyawa people whose existence is being threatened by nickel mining, driven by the demand for electric car batteries. Advertisement “We don’t […]

Grizzly bears in the Arctic are becoming an increasingly common occurrence as the planet warms, which means that they are beginning to encroach on polar bear territory more regularly. As a result, scientists have found evidence of polar-grizzly hybrids, but new research has confirmed that these “grolar bears” remain extremely rare. Polar bear and grizzly […]

Underwater robots have captured a rare glimpse of a female deep-sea squid. Not only was it holding on to a clutch of unexpectedly giant eggs, but it might also be a brand new species. Advertisement Though thought to be abundant in the depths of the ocean, deep-sea squid are something of a mystery, not helped […]

A new antivenom for European black widow bites has been developed using engineered human antibodies. Advertisement The European black widow (Latrodectus tredecimguttatus), a relative of the North American black widow, is typically found in the balmy Mediterranean region. However, rising temperatures are helping the species expand its range across other parts of Europe.  Advertisement Their […]

In 1912, philosophers Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead did something they believed nobody had ever done before: they proved that 1 + 1 = 2. Advertisement It took them an entire book’s worth of setup, plus more than 80 pages of a second volume, to do it. It was, a reasonable person might conclude, […]

As Hannah Montana once wisely said: “Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days.” But for scientists studying the 508-million-year-old sea creature Pikaia gracilens, make that approximately 41,639 days, as it turns out they’ve likely been looking at it upside down since 1910. Advertisement The first Pikaia fossils were discovered in the Burgess Shale fossil beds of […]

Change is afoot along the Pacific Northwest coast. While hordes of crabs and spiders might be invading New York, something slightly different is happening to the whale population on the other side of the country. Scientists studying gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) have found that they seem to be shrinking. Over in the North Atlantic, right […]

The ship that witnessed the death of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton has been found in remarkable condition on the seafloor around 15 nautical miles from the coast of Canada. Advertisement A team of international experts led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) located the ship, called Quest, at a depth of 390 meters (1,280 […]

NASA astronauts Tracy C. Dyson and Matthew Dominick are currently getting ready to exit the International Space Station (ISS). No, they are not coming back to Earth, they will be taking the airlock to perform an extravehicular activity (EVA), better known as a spacewalk, around the station, which is being streamed live today. Part of […]

The Earth’s inner core has been slowing down since 2008, the first time this has happened since we have had the capacity to measure it. This could eventually affect the whole planet’s rotation, lengthening our days, but if there are effects big enough for us to notice, they are more likely to be on the […]

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While stood on planet Earth, it’s easy to forget that we are sat on a rock hurtling through the Solar System on a path which could feasibly collide with other (smaller) space rocks, largely because we can’t feel that motion. Advertisement If you ever have the urge to feel completely at the mercy of random […]

Archaea, hardy single-celled organisms that form the third domain at the top of the universal tree of life, have survived for billions of years in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. Now, scientists have taken a big leap forward in explaining how that is possible, discovering how these organisms use hydrogen as a […]

A hidden camera has caught extremely rare footage of a family of endangered Bornean clouded leopards (Neofelis diardi borneensis) as they scamper and prowl around the rainforest. Advertisement Orangutan Foundation, together with Tanjung Puting National Park, recently captured the adorable video (below) using a camera trap in the dense lowland forests of Indonesian Borneo. While […]

Tiger sharks are voracious predators that will eat pretty much anything they can get their jaws around – but even they can’t stomach an echidna. Advertisement Scientists from James Cook University in Australia witnessed a bizarre animal interaction after seeing a tiger shark throw up an echidna, a small and spikey monotreme that is a […]

Being born a twin was bad news if you happened to live in ancient Mayan times, as the iconic civilization apparently had a thing for sacrificing relatives, including identical siblings – and especially if they were boys. At the world-famous site of Chichén Itzá in southern Mexico, researchers have just identified the remains of 64 […]

Just over a year ago, people across this planet received a challenge from the heavens: Solve an encoded message. The message was created by Daniela de Paulis, Artist in Residence at the SETI Institute. The goal was to simulate an alien signal – and despite its earthly creation, it really came from another planet. Advertisement […]

Many species in the natural world have a certain little something that goes beyond the striking patterns visible on their fur and feathers. From fungi to wombats, many species have been found to be fluorescent – and now a whole range of glowing sea creatures from the Banda Sea in Indonesia and the Red Sea […]

The Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, has warned the world not to allow artificial intelligence (AI) a role in the decision to launch nuclear weapons. Advertisement Speaking at a meeting of the Arms Control Association (ACA), Guterres warned that “humanity is on a knife’s edge”, with the risk of nuclear weapons use […]

The results of the 2024 Vaquita Survey are in, and it’s a mixed bag for the world’s rarest mammal. According to Sea Shepherd, who conduct the annual survey, the data shows 6 to 8 vaquita porpoises were sighted during the survey, a decline from 2023 when 8 to 13 individuals were observed. There were no […]