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Corpse flowers are blooming much faster than usual.
The European Science Open Forum (ESOF) has come and gone, but its echoes still resonate. It's one of the biggest science events worldwide and it absolutely felt like it.
No joke, no trick - the tree you see blow grows 40 different types of fruit.
We have touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it is us—extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul… — Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, speaking at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, October 8, 1976 Traveling to Mars has been the dream of many […]
A 1 in 87 billion chance.
The UK seems hell bent on making unfortunate decissions.
Energy.
It is alarming to see such emblematic species slide towards extinction
Painkillers in the opium family (most notably morphine) may actually make pain last longer, a new study reports. Morphine treatment after a nerve injury doubled the duration of pain in rats and this is highly worrying. It gets even more disturbing when you consider the addictive potential of many commercial opioids such as OxyContin and Vicodin. If this is […]
It's just as crazy as it sounds.
Pornography is still a taboo in most communities, especially in religious ones. Almost without exception, religious people will deem it as deviant and sinful behaviour, and even viewing it is simply unacceptable. But data shows that they’re almost certainly lying. A study published June 2 in Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity: The Journal of Treatment & […]
Researchers working with the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii have made a stunning discovery: they found evidence of water clouds around a brown dwarf. Since its discovery, the brown dwarf known as WISE 0855 has fascinated astronomers. It lies just 7.2 light-years from Earth and it’s the coldest confirmed object outside of our solar system at temperatures ranging […]
The night light burns bright.
Smart devices are quickly taking over our lives, but they may also be giving away our secrets.
Two new massive 350MW arrays in the Netherlands will supply power to Dutch people at €87/MWh, which translates into under 10 cents/kWh.
The United Kingdom will almost certainly miss its 2020 targets for renewable energy, the National Grid has said.
The $2 testing device, about the size of a soda can, does not require electricity or technical expertise to use.
The black shroud above the Rio Olympics looms bigger and darker.
A skull fragment found in an old Buddhist temple is believed to have belonged to Buddha.
Gastronomy is becoming more of a science and less of an art with each passing day, but there are some foods which are just downright unreasonably expensive.
We've talked about 3D printing being useful in fields like engineering or medicine, but in the right hands it can create amazing pieces of art and bring back to life creatures gone for hundreds of millions of years.
Scientists found a strange correlation between hot women and condom usage
Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
In America, walkable neighborhoods are a privilege of the rich and educated.
This is some scary stuff.
Things are about to get much worse.
This could be a game changer for women.
It works 100 times more efficiently than your laptop.
You just can't brush off this technology.
A color with the appropriately dull name of Pantone 448C has been identified by researchers as the ugliest color in existence.
After studying prairie dogs for 25 years, one researcher believes he figured out what prairie dogs are communicating about. He believes that the animals are not only very efficient communicators, but they also have an eye for details. Gunnison’s prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is one of five species of the prairie dog. Their name is […]
Take a moment to consider that the first space flights, both for the Soviets and for NASA, took place way before computers.
For all its beauty, amethyst is a fairly common variety of quartz. This here isn’t even a particularly special image, it’s how amethyst looks like most of the time. What is it about this mineral that makes it so special? Quartz itself is the second-most-abundant mineral in Earth’s crust. Amethyst is one of the more common […]
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
It's simple, easy, and they've been doing it for centuries!
They may be more common than we thought.
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
The Nigerian prince is in trouble!
Children judge a book by its cover.
Who needs Indiana Jones?
It was a cute rodent, off the northern coast of Australia, on an island by the Great Barrier Reef. Now it's gone, because of us.
It's good news for us, but perhaps not good news for the rodents.
Norway is killing more whales than Japan and Iceland combined.
It's surreal and it doesn't make much sense, but it's definitely intriguing.
The system is abusing all of us.
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
All your girlfriends are belong to me.
‘Theoretically the stuff is still edible - but we wouldn’t say it’s advisable’
The fact that people still debate the effectiveness of vaccines is ridiculous.
Rhapta was one of the most prosperous cities on the African coast, and one of the last trading posts of the Roman Empire.
