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On the morning of October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union carried out the Tsar Bomba test, a hydrogen bomb that was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created and tested. The Tsar Bomba packed a punch of over 50 megatons, which is the equivalent of 50 million tons of conventional explosives. That’s 10 times more […]

“Girls, remember when you went through puberty, they told you that you were becoming a woman?” said comedian Mrs Hughes back in 2007. “You go through the ‘change of life’; they don’t tell you what you’re becoming.” Of course, ask anybody currently going through menopause, and they might have an answer for you: they’re becoming […]

Considering they’re meant to be some symbol of ultimate manliness, testicles are delicate little brats, aren’t they? They try to kill you if you get kicked a bit too hard; they can’t cope with a little heat or magnets; heck, you can’t even have too much of a good time if you don’t want to […]

Bones are wet. There, that’s something you now know. You might not like it, but when we’re alive our bones are stuffed with gooey marrow and riddled with vessels. So, it seems a bit odd, then, that the English idiom “bone dry” has become so well established. If you’re wondering why bones are wet, it’s […]

Spooky season is upon us, and it can be an especially scary time for pedestrians, it seems. Research has shown that Halloween is an exceptionally dangerous time for people to walk the streets – not because of undead ghouls, razor blades hidden in apples, or the annual return of Michael Myers, but because of car […]

It seems that the humble bumblebee has joined the ranks of animals that play just for fun, just like dogs and dolphins. Beekind has already been up to quite a lot in 2022, winning awards, getting recognized as fish, learning to distinguish odd and even numbers, and even lining up numbers in the right order. Now, […]

The clitoris is the only organ in the human body that exists for the sole purpose of providing pleasure; yet, until now, scientists had never counted the number of nerve endings that give rise to all that sensation. However, new research has revealed that despite its miniature size, the female bliss spot contains in excess […]

A straw designed to stop hiccups was released in 2021, beating traditional methods for how to stop hiccups in a study. However, if you’re sat at home Googling “how to stop hiccups”, you’re probably looking for a more instant solution than ordering in custom-made straws. Here, we discuss what hiccups even are, why we get […]

Earth’s magnetic field has protected life on Earth from solar radiation for as long as it has existed (which is longer than we thought) but it is not constant. It changes in many different ways that are not immediately easy to appreciate. Now, scientists have converted these fluctuations into sounds that we can hear, and […]

This week, Elon Musk discusses his plans post-Twitter takeover, the UK may have once been inhabited by ritualistic cannibals, and we’re warned about leaving those pesky fall leaves on the lawn. Elon Musk Outlines His Plans For Twitter And Reveals Why He Bought It With his Twitter takeover completed this week, Elon Musk outlined some […]

Remember when we were all just jackass kids, and humming was something we did to punish a substitute teacher for the crime of trying to enrich our minds? We may not have known it at the time, but it turns out we may have inadvertently been boosting our health all along – because as weird […]

After much drama and difficulty, the Musk-Twitter takeover appears to be done and dusted. Signaling the $44 billion deal had finally gone through, the multi-billionaire tweeted: “the bird is freed” late on Thursday night.  Musk didn’t take long to start making big changes. The ink must have barely been dry on the contract before he set […]

Wuhan and many other cities across China have gone back into lockdown as the Asian country continues its zero-COVID policy. China has reported 42,419 cases of COVID cases just in the last 24 hours, and to stop another wave becoming more serious, over 200 million people are back in lockdown. Under different degrees of lockdown, […]

Parts of the world are home to communities with above-average life expectancy, with many housing multiple people aged 100 years or older, called centenarians. Some such areas are categorized as “Blue Zones”, and many believe they hold the key to a long and healthy life. The term Blue Zone came from the study of data […]

The average employee reports being productive for only 31 percent of the average eight-hour workday 😳. So if you’re trying to get ahead as an employee, entrepreneur, artist, or anything, it’s evident that working hard throughout the day is a simple strategy for getting a leg up. Unfortunately, if you’re like most of us, staying focused […]

Most stars are formed in dense clusters, but spend the bulk of their lives alone or in pairs. Recently, observations of dissolving clusters have revealed a strange anomaly. The discovery contradicts conventional Newtonian ideas of gravity, but fits with at least one alternative. Still, it takes a lot to overthrow a theory as well founded […]

Scientists have developed a new antidepressant compound that appears to get to work significantly faster than current treatments for depression. The drug has only been tested out in mouse brains so far, but the new research could eventually pave the way for a new fast-acting antidepressant. Most commonly prescribed antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake […]

NASA’s InSight has studied many seismic events on Mars over the last couple of years. These “marsquakes” have given astronomers a better understanding of the interior of the planet but they were really hoping to see events with waves traveling along the surface, too. Luckily, the universe provided that as a Christmas gift in 2021. […]