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A book bound in human skin has been stripped by Harvard University’s Houghton Library following a review prompted by the recommendations put forward in 2022 regarding human remains in museum collections. Harvard Library states the “ethically fraught nature” of the book’s origins and history made it inappropriate for stewardship at the library, and are in […]

Imagine being capable of surviving being frozen to almost absolute zero as well as being put in a kitchen oven on the highest setting; going without water and food for decades; being blasted with radiation; and even being exposed to the vacuum of space (and maybe spread to the Moon). No humans can do that, […]

Five years ago, the idea that the whole world could be shut down for weeks on end would be unthinkable. But then, so would the notion of mass graves in New York City, a US Republican government issuing what looked similar to a universal basic income, and a few thousand people poisoning themselves with entirely useless […]

A hard-boiled egg makes for a nutritious snack, but disaster can strike when our timing is off. Boil too long and the yolk looks like a 90s mouse ball, but too little and cracking that baby open is going to make a mess of your worktop and delay snackisfaction. But what if I told you […]

For a long time, orcas (or killer whales) were all believed to be one species but with different “ecotypes” in various regions, but scientists have now identified at least two distinct species in the North Pacific Ocean. They argue there are enough differences to declare the Bigg’s killer whales and resident killer whales separate species. […]

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Mount Sinai – a deeply sacred site in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – is the location where Moses was given the Ten Commandments stone tablets by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible. Like many settings in the Bible, it’s thought to be based on a real place, although where exactly […]

Something strange is going on in Florida (well, stranger than usual). Critically endangered smalltooth sawfish have been spotted erratically spinning and whirling around in the Lower Florida Keys, while dozens more have died under mysterious circumstances. The situation has become so severe that the NOAA Fisheries has initiated a first-of-its-kind emergency response effort to prevent […]

As a result of concerns over the survival of owl species native to western North America, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has made a draft proposal to cull nearly half a million barred owls over the course of three decades. This plan, however, has been met with uproar by animal advocacy groups. Barred […]

Songwriters may be Under Pressure, but they just don’t get Into The Groove like they did back in the 1980s. That’s the conclusion of a new study looking at the evolution of song lyrics from 1980 to 2020, which found that while the meaningful verses created by earlier artists could sound Like A Prayer, more […]

The Barberton Greenstone Belt in South Africa contains some of the oldest exposed rocks on Earth, some over 3.6 billion years old. It also contains some layers, a bit younger than that, which have perplexed geologists as they looked like a jumble of different rocks put together. Researchers now have a proposal: That portion is […]

“Life imitates art” might be an overused cliché, but a newly discovered gecko species found among rocks in the Western Ghats in India appears to be taking the phrase quite literally. Back in April 2022, a team of researchers had set out on an expedition in the deciduous forests of the southern Western Ghats – […]

Precision time-keeping has a new record. Researchers have created a clock with an uncertainty of about 8 parts per tenth of a billionth of a billionth. This level of precision is so incredibly small that it would take the clock slightly less than three times the age of the universe to lose a single second […]

A new partnership between Re:wild and Colossal Biosciences hopes to prevent the extinction of some of the world’s rarest animals, like the critically endangered vaquita. Colossal, a de-extinction company known for wanting to bring back the mammoth, has paired up with the conservation giant – headed up by scientists and Leonardo DiCaprio – to create […]

As if we needed any more evidence of the wonder of dogs, new research is showing that some service pups may be able to add a new skill to their resumes. As well as those that sniff out serious conditions like cancer and Parkinson’s disease, some proficient pooches may be able to detect symptoms such […]

News of Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating Moon’s (SLIM) demise are greatly exaggerated. SLIM landed on the Moon in late January, demonstrating high precision landing on another world – unfortunately, it landed a little wonky which complicated the whole operation. Still, the tech was clearly strong enough to survive the dramatic drop in temperature experienced […]

We know by now that the deep ocean is full of frankly bizarre-looking animals like Barbie pigs and funky things with tentacles, and we love it. Now deep-sea sea cucumbers are getting in on the act, with three new species discovered in the South China Sea. Five scientific expeditions from 2018-2023 were taken using the […]

There is a reason some people chase solar eclipses around the world: this is definitely not a phenomenon where if you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all. Instead, each solar eclipse is different, and the April 8 North American total solar eclipse will likely come with a few extra features, including an abundance of red, […]

Animals get a pretty bad rap when it comes to spreading viruses. After all, some of the most well-known infectious diseases in humans – think COVID-19, Ebola, or swine flu – are the result of viruses that naturally circulate in animals. But a new study might just salvage that reputation, with researchers having found that […]

The skulls of two baby predators found littered among a nest containing the near-complete embryo of an Oviraptor puzzled scientists when they described the find back in 1994. Why were these Velociraptor-like animals in such close association with what appeared to be the nest of its prey? The juiciest among several explanations is that it […]