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“Gargantuan” Survey Of The Milky Way Is A Sight To Behold [Images]
[imagesource: DECaPS2 / DOE / FNAL / DECam / CTIO / NOIRLab / NSF AURA] Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of our spiralled galactic home, the Milky Way. The new dataset is made up of 21 400...
View ArticleThe Truth About Those Gel Manicure Lamps At Nail Salons
[imagesource: Flickr] Every time I sit in a salon chair to indulge my free-spender, girly side, I worry about the risks that the salon environment poses on my health. “Aren’t you worried about your...
View ArticleWhat This Tech Mogul Spends $2 Million A Year On To Feel 18 Again
[imagesource: Wikimedia Commons] There’s yet another Silicon Valley tech bro who’s joined the war on ageing. Clearly, when you’ve successfully hacked the money trees and have so much pocket money that...
View ArticleA Billion Dollar Startup Is Attempting To Bring Back The Dodo
[imagesource: Wikivoyage] Reintroducing mammoths to Alaska or dodos to Mauritius sounds silly. Yet, a biotechnology startup is promising to resurrect these vanished animals. In March the startup said...
View ArticleThat Tech Mogul Dead Set Against Ageing Is Being Sued By Ex For Dumping Her...
[imagesource: Instagram / Bryan Johnson] It turns out that Bryan Johnson, who has been likened to the narcissistic protagonist in American Psycho for forking out upwards of $2 million a year on making...
View ArticleThey’re Working On A Really Promising New Non-Hormonal Male Contraceptive Pill
[imagesource: Needpix] For much of life, women have shouldered most of the responsibility of contraceptives thanks to “the pill”, which quite frankly wreaks havoc on the body, mind and soul. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleResearchers Put The ‘Small Dick Energy’/ Sports Car Correlation To The Test
[imagesource: Flickr] Climate activist Greta Thunberg explained the slang term ‘small dick energy’ pretty perfectly when she had Twitter beef with Andrew Tate recently. The misogynistic social media...
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“It’s Bananas”– JWST Found Small Red Dot Shaking Up Understanding Of Galaxy...
[imagesource: Flickr] While we continue to be swamped by our (relatively) small human problems, the James Webb Space Telescope has been peering into the deepest cosmos and revealing unprecedented...
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James Webb Telescope Captures Rarely Seen Moment Of A Dying Star [Images]
[imagesource:maxpixel] Supernovas have been captured before. But the singular moment right before the star dies has never been seen before the way it has now. Again, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope...
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Take A Cool Virtual Tour Of The ‘Doomsday’ Seed Vault In The Norwegian Arctic...
[imagesource:virtualtourcompany] More than 1,2 million seed samples from almost every country in the world are being preserved in a “doomsday seed vault” in the frigid Norwegian Arctic. The grey...
View ArticleCape Town’s Beach Sewerage Discharge Will Now Kill Your Sperm As Well
[imagesource:twitter/@go2michelle] For years, the City of Cape Town has been the subject of much ire and controversy for pumping sewage into our coastal marine-protected areas. Not a single person is...
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First Case Of Man Catching Fungal Infection Makes ‘The Last Of Us’ Feel Too...
[imagesource:hbo] When HBO’s The Last Of Us started filling our screens with the onslaught of an apocalyptic mushroom-headed zombie-causing fungal infection, we palmed it off as a piece of...
View ArticleMeet NASA’s Diverse Artemis 2 Crew Who Will Voyage To The Moon Soon
[imagesource:youtube/nasa] NASA has finally revealed who’s who in the Artemis 2 crew, and it’s as if they’re trying to make history or something. Among the astronauts set to return to the lunar orbit...
View ArticleScientists Are Preparing For The Inevitable Coming Of Sex In Space
[imagesource:here] Imagine having a giant O in space. Talk about a supernova explosion. Since the space tourism industry is on the brink of commercial reality, people with enough resources will...
View ArticleMake Yourself Feel Really Puny With NASA’s New Black Hole Video
[imagesource:jeremyschnittman/nasa’sgoddardspaceflightcentre] No head can actually be wrapped around the mass of a black hole. They are simply too unimaginably supermassive. Even a small black hole is...
View ArticleTrue Story: Researchers Investigated Three ‘Zombie’ Cases In Haiti
[imagesource:pxhere] In Haiti, up to a thousand zombies are reported to local authorities each year, spotted wandering the backwaters of rural towns, freaking out the locals. According to Haitian...
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Watch This Unusual Green Meteor Explode Over Australia [Videos]
[imagesource:cairnsairport] A plummeting green light burned through the sky over Australia on Saturday with such a brilliant flash that it could be seen for miles. The tremendous boom emitted as it...
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Time To Feel Small Again – Webb Telescope Stares Deeply Into The Starry Heart...
[imagesource: esa/nasa/csa/j.leeandthephangs-jwstteam] This is your occasional reminder that you are puny and insignificant, along with all your Earthly problems. It’s a nice feeling if you just go...
View ArticleNASA Scientist Reckons There’s Already Life On The Moon Thanks To Humans
[imagesource:pexels] It turns out, the Moon is hardly a dead husk, void of any life. In fact, if everything goes according to plan for the astronauts who are scheduled to touch down on the surface of...
View ArticleListen To Deep Space – NASA Has “Sonified” Galaxies Etc Into Orchestral Music...
[imagesource:youtube/nasamarshallspaceflightcenter] Because there’s no air in space to act as a medium, sound cannot travel up there. But that hasn’t stopped NASA from producing musical tones from the...
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Don’t Laugh At Those Who Claim Aliens Abducted Them – A Lesson From An...
[imagesource:davidriedel] In a long, personal essay, David Riedel, a Torry Award-winning author for his novella Terrestrial Issues, and his short stories The Space Beneath and The Body, bemoans ever...
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This Guy Who Found Whale Vomit Worth Around R10 Million Isn’t Even Going To...
[imagesource:wikimediacommons] One would not be remiss if they didn’t immediately think ‘Ka-Ching!’ when imagining a hunk of smelly whale vomit. Perfumers around the world would beg to differ, though,...
View ArticleExperts Warn It Won’t Be Pretty If Lightning Strikes While You’re Taking A...
[imagesource:neepix] Down here where the two oceans meet we hardly ever see severe lightning, where only on occasion, the rumbling fart of thunder might roll over the mountain. But if you’re living in...
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NASA Drops Awesome Image Of Star Nursery In Celebration Of JWST’s First Year...
[imagesource:wikimediacommons] The very first image from the James Webb Space Telescope was released in July last year, so it has been a full year of wonder at the strange miracle that is life in the...
View ArticleNASA And Metallica Combine Forces For The Artemis 1 Moon Rocket Launch [Video]
[imagesource:youtube/nasa] Combinations that just make sense in the world: beer with fish and chips, Cape Town in the sunshine, and Metallica as the soundtrack for an epic moon mission. “Give me fuel!...
View ArticleNASA Reckons Americans Will Be Living On The Moon By 2040
[imagesource:nasa] By 2040, there could be more than one man on the moon. Despite sceptics’ doubts, a NASA spokesperson told the New York Times that it wants to move some Americans to the moon in just...
View ArticleNASA Is Coming To The Western Cape, But Not For The Reasons You Think
[imagesource:nasa] NASA – the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration – is usually associated with matters of space and aliens. So when we are told that NASA is sending two modified jets to...
View Article15,000 Scientists Release Alarming Climate Report: “We Are Afraid Of The...
[imagesource: rawpixel.com / The African Union Mission in Somalia] This week, a team of 15,000 distinguished scientists from 163 countries around the globe issued a stark warning that human-driven...
View ArticleFirst Recording Of A Dying Human Brain Reveals ‘Life Recall’ Activity
[imagesource:rawpixel] For the first time, human brain activity in the final seconds before death has been recorded, showing a ‘rhythmic activity’ similar to that seen while we are dreaming. The...
View ArticleThere’s Something A Little Scarier Than Zombie Viruses Frozen In Permafrost
[imagesource:wikimediacommons] The permafrost is in trouble as the climate warms. The northern reaches of the planet are warming as much as four times faster than the global average, which is causing...
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DNA From A Baboon Mummy Revealed The Location Of A Mysterious City Not Found...
[imagesource:wonder] A new study by geneticists on baboon DNA found in Egypt may have just given researchers the location of the ‘lost realm of Punt’. The ancient Egyptians loved their baboons, whom...
View ArticleScientists Have Been Left Baffled After A Seriously Powerful Beam Of Cosmic...
[imagesource:Osaka Metropolitan University/L-INSIGHT, Kyoto University/Ryuunosuke Takeshige] A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of...
View ArticleBlind Mole With Supersonic Hearing Thought To Be Extinct Since 1936 Found In...
[imagesource:YouTube / NPR’s Skunk Bear] In an extraordinary turn of events, the elusive De Winton’s golden mole, believed extinct for nearly 90 years, has been detected in South Africa. The...
View Article“It’s Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen”– Scientists Discover Previously Unknown...
[imagesource:youtube/universityofcoloradoboulder] It is the year 2023, and a new, previously undocumented ecosystem has just been discovered. A team of scientists has managed to unearth an...
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Hold Tight, Biotech Scientists Have Already Figured Out How To Take The ‘A’...
[imagesource:gencraftai] The AI revolution is speeding ahead, and it’s taking our brains with it. That is a bit of a double entendre, as we come to rely more and more on smart software like ChatGPT to...
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Okay, So Scientists Have Discovered A Dolphin With Thumbs
[imagesource:imagineai] One of the few advantages that humans have over other animals is our opposable thumbs. The nifty handpiece allows us to grip and hold enough to make things from scratch, build...
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Just Two Northern White Rhinos Are Left On Earth, But New IVF Breakthrough...
[imagesource:gpoarchive/flickr] When Curra, one of the few remaining female southern white rhinos, died after her enclosure at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nairobi was flooded last November,...
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CERN Now Wants To Build An Even Bigger Atom Smasher For R360 Billion [Video]
[imagesource:wonderai] Researchers at the world’s biggest particle accelerator have put forward proposals to build a new, even bigger atom smasher. The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be...
View ArticleThese Real-Life People With Super Powers Leave Scientists Scratching Their Heads
[imagesource:gencraftai] There are a very special few individuals who possess abilities that defy complete explanation by experts. These people can achieve remarkable feats seemingly beyond the...
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Scientific Journal Publishes Bogus AI Image Of Rat With Massive Penis
[imagesource:gencraftai] The levels of wrong on this are numerous, so be warned. This week, a scientific journal published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular...
View ArticleCalifornia Man Experiences Remarkable Medical Triumph, Becoming Free Of HIV...
[imagesource:PaulEdmonds] On the undesirable roster of illnesses, cancer and HIV are notably high-ranking. One Californian man named Paul Edmonds found himself afflicted with both. Miraculously, he’s...
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Now You’re Never Going To Stop Thinking About This Living Frog With A...
[imagesource: Lohit Y.T] While observing an army of golden-backed frogs at a roadside pond in Karnataka, India, a team of naturalists noticed something rather unusual about one of the little hoppers....
View ArticleStrange Structure In Antarctica Is Stoking The Imagination Of Many [Video]
[imagesource:googleearth] Amid the frigid, hostile landscape of Antarctica, a pyramid-like mountain has been discovered. The supposed pyramid, visibly peaking out through layers of snow and ice along...
View ArticleSA Orca Duo Port And Starboard Are Blowing Scientists’ Minds Again – Lone...
[imagesource:picryl.com] Port and Starboard, the two orcas (or killer whales) who have become notorious for chowing down on great white shark liver in our coastal waters, are back at it again –...
View ArticleScientists Have Finally Figured Out Why Humans Don’t Have Tails
[imagesource:needpix] For years, scientists have wondered why our species doesn’t have a tail similar to our monkey relatives. Researchers now believe they have finally uncovered the genetic mechanism...
View ArticleNASA Found A ‘Super-Earth’ That Might Possibly Be Habitable
[imagesource: NASA/JPL-Caltech] The above is an illustration of Exoplanet TOI-715 b, a super-Earth in the habitable zone of a red dwarf star about 137 light-years away. First found in 2023, the...
View ArticleNASA Wants Human Guinea Pigs To Test Out Life On Mars
[imagesource:gencraftai] NASA has invited the public to a chance to go to Mars – or, as close as you can get to Mars on Earth. The space agency is seeking volunteers to test out living in the...
View ArticleJames Webb Telescope’s Newest Find Suggests We’ve Misunderstood The Universe
[imagesource: NASA, ESA, CSA] NASA’s James Webb Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery that could shake up our understanding of the universe. The latest finding, from analysing data collected by...
View ArticleScientists Say They Have Found New Evidence Of An Unknown Planet In Our Solar...
[imagesource:deviantart] Scientists say they have found new evidence that proves the existence of the fabled ‘Planet 9’ in our solar system. For years now astronomers have been suggesting that unusual...
View ArticleThe Karoo Telescope That’s Transformed Our Understanding Of The Cosmos
[imagesource:wikimediacommons] The Karoo is semi-arid and sparse. But that is the perfect spot to put a technological marvel that can transform our understanding of the cosmos. Near the small Northern...
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