Billions of cicadas are about to be “controlled like zombies” into spreading a strange fungus that “hijacks their bodies and behaviour”, according to a report. In a development worthy of a horror film, the bugs will develop “hypersexualisation” and therefore spread the fungus ever more widely, as males flirt like females, despite the fact that […]
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Scientists in many fields received little recognition for the last couple of years, as the world focused on the emergency push to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t still busy researching a dizzying series of developments that are now being reported as major discoveries and achievements. 1. Menstrual blood […]
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This isn’t new. Back in 1996, Virginia Tech’s Dr. L. David Roper did a single-year analysis of suicide rates in states that voted for Democratic President Bill Clinton versus states that went for Republican Senator Bob Dole. He found: “Democratic votes for the states had a 57% negative correlation with increasing [suicide rates] and the […]
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An elusive Earth-like planet in our solar system could finally be discovered within the next few years. Known as Planet Nine or Planet X, it is a hypothetical planet that has long been rumoured to exist in the outer solar system. Although “several claims to have found an extra planet have been made over the […]
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A fragment of meteorite which fell to earth in a quiet village in Gloucestershire may hold the answer to a question scientists have been puzzling over for decades: where did our planet’s water come from? The Winchcombe meteorite “streaked from space into the atmosphere as a spectacular green fireball” in 2021, said The Times. After […]
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LONDON (AP) — Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the so-called “God particle” that helped explain how matter formed after the Big Bang, has died at age 94, the University of Edinburgh said Tuesday. The university, where Higgs was emeritus professor, said he died Monday following a short illness. Higgs predicted […]
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Presuming that our government hasn’t yet established a DMV office on the moon, we guess that it’s okay for NASA to proceed with plans that will further encourage astronauts to once again drive on and around the lunar surface without a moon license. This past week, the space agency revealed that it is seeking proposals […]
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Scientists at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA, have made a remarkable discovery that has left the scientific community astounded: evidence suggesting the existence of a massive body of water deep within the Earth’s interior, extending more than 400 miles beneath the surface. This finding, reminiscent of the imaginative tales of Jules Verne, has sparked widespread […]
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The US federal government has asked Nasa to develop a time zone for the Moon before it begins any new missions to the lunar surface. The head of the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) wants Nasa to “work with other US agencies and international agencies to establish a moon-centric time reference system” […]
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What happened As millions of people watch the April 8 total solar eclipse, blind and visually impaired people will feel and listen to it with special tools. Paperback-sized LightSound devices measure and translate the sky’s brightness into music, with “a flute sound for intense light, a clarinet sound that lowers in pitch as the light […]
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