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People are once again sharing secrets from their own area of work, which would cause “general chaos” if the public at large knew about it.  Twitter user mykola first posed the question in 2019, though it has recently resurfaced with new answers. Advertisement Below are a few of our favorite sciency and techy answers. We’ll […]

The Golden Gate Bridge is currently singing a concerning song to all those who try to cross. If there’s one thing you really don’t want a bridge to do, it’s creak and groan in the wind. However, some people crossing the Golden Gate Bridge recently may have noticed a series of strange noises emanating from […]

A treasure trove of fossilized eggs were the subject of a recent study that discovered a curious specimen among the clutch: an egg-in-egg, or ovum-in-ovo, whereby an egg is found to contain another egg. The quirk of ovulation has only previously been reported in birds, not reptiles, and so it may be that these dinosaurs […]

Laying at the bottom of an ancient rock tomb, the remains of giant mummified crocodiles have been unearthed. While it’s not uncommon to find mummified animals at ancient Egyptian sites, this bask of crocodiles has been mummified in a particularly unusual way that’s caught the eye of archaeologists. The mummified remains of five isolated skulls […]

Scientists in the United States have developed a machine learning algorithm that can predict a surge of COVID-19 cases at county level across the US, in the vast majority of cases. Such a tool could have a powerful impact in protecting people, and let healthcare systems prepare up to six weeks before a major outbreak. […]

Most of the directions we use to describe the world center the self. We say up or down, in front or behind us, and left and right. These latter two are the most difficult to explain in fundamental terms given the symmetry of most physical laws. But in nature, there are molecules that have a […]

Ice cores collected from central-north Greenland provide a fine-grained record of climatic conditions in the area, and it’s not good news. Among other things they reveal the decade from 2001-2011 was 1.5°C (2.7°F) warmer than the 20th century average, as well as being the area’s hottest since at least 1000 CE. Greenland’s mighty ice sheet shapes […]

Dogs are among the most loved of pets, but hinging your happiness on a fluffy, four-legged pal comes with one mortal downfall: they don’t live for very long. Now, a start-up is looking to see if we can change that by making an anti-aging pill for dogs with the goal of increasing their longevity. Better […]

When humans first made the switch from hunter-gathering to agriculture, we were quite a wee bunch – yet new research suggests we may have grown taller and stronger as we started drinking milk. After analyzing thousands of ancient skeletons, the study authors found that increases in human body size tend to coincide with the genetic […]

A gold-plated pendant thought to date back to the late 12th century has been analyzed using a neutron-based imaging technique, revealing its innermost secrets for the first time. The painstaking work was conducted by a team from the Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie at the Technical University of Munich. The ornately decorated pendant was first unearthed in […]

If you’ve ever watched air bubbles rising through water, you may have pondered the same thing as Leonardo Da Vinci: why don’t all of them travel straight to the surface? If so, you were more than 500 years too late, and probably insufficiently famous, for people to take much notice of your question, but the […]

The world’s oldest confirmed living person has died in her sleep aged 118 years and 340 days. Lucille Randon was a Roman Catholic nun who took the name Sister André in 1944. According to Guinness World Records, Randon was both the second-oldest French person and European person ever recorded, taking the title of world’s oldest […]

NASA has announced its plan for the Artemis III mission, including that it is scheduled for 2025. If everything goes well it will see the return of humans to the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The location of the planned Moon landing is somewhere that humans have never […]

No one, and we mean no one, can have enough chargers in their electronic life. Chargers are simply the magic that keep us and our electronics going all day long. Sure, we don’t like the messy cables and having to share our beloved chargers between several devices — how does one decide which device to […]

The population of China has dropped for the first time since the 1960s, with the country’s birth rate slipping to a record low of -6.77 births per 1,000 people. China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday that the population stood at 1.4118 billion at the end of 2022, a decrease of 850,000 from 2021. […]

In 1822, Mary Ann Mantell was accompanying her husband, obstetrician and paleontologist Gideon Mantell, on a visit to a patient, when she noticed something shiny at the side of the road. Looking closer, she found large teeth embedded into the rock. Her husband Gideon, in a major breakthrough, realized that the fossil belonged to a […]

Dozens of treasure hunters have been diving in New York’s East River, on the hunt for a hoard of mammoth bones they believe to be in there – partly thanks to Joe Rogan’s podcast. In December, Alaskan gold miner John Reeves appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast. During the appearance, Reeves told Rogan that […]

When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the Moon, it probably didn’t cross their mind that there was a lack of religious infrastructure and a complete dearth of priests.  However, should they have been struck by a sudden urge to convert to Catholicism and then go to confession, it seems the Catholic […]

On January 14, the magnetic field lines around AR3182, one of the several sunspots presently on the Sun, erupted releasing a coronal mass ejection (CME). High-speed plasma from the Sun is currently racing across the inner Solar System toward Earth. The bulk of it will miss our planet but the wave of particles will graze our […]

A row over gas is bubbling up in the US after new research linked the use of gas stoves to childhood asthma. Yet with 35 percent of households across the country currently cooking with gas, many are now unsure if it’s safe to continue using their gas-powered appliances. Why are people worried about gas stoves […]