A new profile of Bill Nye (“the science guy”) in The New York Times is a departure from the TV personality’s long-held mild public persona, and Nye has recently lashed out at “science deniers” for working to restrict evidence-based policy and education. Bill Nye’s new gig seems to be, in part, taking on issues of science… Read more »
The Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered evidence of an alien planet forming strangely far from its host star. Astronomers have said the discovery could challenge the prevailing theory about how planets form. Researchers with the Hubble program discovered a large gap in the planet-forming debris disk that surrounds TW Hydrae, a red dwarf star. The… Read more »
A robot body-double developed by a renowned a Japanese scientist made its ...
A Loch Ness monster debate is brewing in Scotland, where locals are ...
Loch Ness monster facts and evidence are hard to sift through. But it’s not old Nessie that makes this difficult. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Loch Ness Monster, or Nessie, became the center of a controversy when George Edwards, the owner of Loch Ness Cruises, sent a letter to the 70-plus members of the… Read more »
Australian researchers have discovered that men are more bothered about ...
A new study, using mice as test subjects, has revealed that stem cells could ...
A team of evolutionary biologists led by David Reznick, professor of biology at the University of California, have discovered that dead guppies reproduce even after death. After studying the reproductive behaviors of these particular guppies, biologists discovered that the females can store sperm from their dead counterparts for up to 10 months, meaning that, by… Read more »
A prehistoric armored fish fossil has been discovered by Swedish researchers ...
The largest collection of potential black holes ever found outside of our own galaxy have been discovered by astronomers in the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. Scientists found at least 26 possible new black holes in the galaxy. A black hole is a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation… Read more »
Otzi the Iceman, Europe’s oldest mummy, lay undisturbed for more than 5,000 years — but scientists have new answers about the ancient human’s life and death. Back in 1991, Otzi the Iceman was unearthed in the Alps by hikers, his frozen body preserved for millennia in its resting place. As research was carried out after… Read more »
Findings that men mature after women are not necessarily news in that we’ve been told since we were young that girls “grow up faster,” but a new survey sheds light on the actual age at which men mature in relation to women … and the spread seems quite vast. According to researchers, it is indeed… Read more »
“Crazy” ants, as some call them, have begun to infest areas in ...
Chris Hadfield is retiring from the space program. The astronaut announced ...
Jellyfish blooms are booming, and the rapid rise of the stinging, gelatinous sea creatures that every beachgoer loves to hate could be a huge warning sign. Jellyfish expert Lisa-ann Gershwin has recently published a new book called Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean which warns that our oceans are in big… Read more »
NASA’s Opportunity rover sent back data to Earth showing that Mars ...
Amazon fires are destroying the rainforest at a rate of three percent every 10 years. NASA scientists recently calculated that slow-burning fires in the rainforests have led to a major loss of lush vegetation and an increased output of carbon dioxide. Scientists admit that the Amazon fires are not easy to detect because they creep… Read more »
The giant asteroid named 1998 QE2 was captured on video during its flyby of ...
Magpies think faster when people are looking at them. If you’re one of ...
The human face could look drastically different in 100,000 years as humans ...
The Vikings embarked on a voyage to Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland more than ...
A 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy is getting a rare cleaning at a Boston ...
A new study on ocean floor garbage proves that just because you can’t ...
An injection that prevents post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in mice ...
An tiny ancient monkey skeleton discovered by paleontologists in China has ...
The fallout from nuclear bomb tests has led to a technique to prove that adults may grow new brain cells, at least in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. A study published Thursday in Cell described how researchers tracked an isotope called C-14 to confront the old claim that humans are born with… Read more »
Humanity’s oldest tumor has been discovered, found in a bone excavated in Croatia more than 100 years ago. Before GMOs and aspartame muddied the waters, the oldest human tumor developed in a Neanderthal, and a new report in the journal PLOS ONE explains how the discovery has shown researchers about similarities between life on Earth… Read more »
Invisibility cloaks have long been under development, using reflective ...
A shipwreck which may contain gold treasure was discovered off the coast of South Carolina. The fabled 19th century steamer was located on Sunday near Cape Romain. Dr. E. Lee Spence believes the SS Ozama could be filled with quite a bit of treasure. The ship was originally used in the construction of the Panama… Read more »
Every summer, billions of cicadas emerge from their hiding places, shed ...
You may think that God’s bathtub is located somewhere between the ...
Fear of sharks isn’t just an emotional reaction to exploit by TV ...
The Earth’s neighborhood in the Milky Way galaxy got an upgrade. On Monday afternoon, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory made this announcement: “Our Solar System’s Milky Way neighborhood just went upscale.” Our solar system is located in a beautiful spiral galaxy similar to the much larger M101 galaxy that you can see in the top… Read more »
400-year-old plants that were found by scientists in a glacier in Canada have come back to life. In a study led by University of Alberta biologist Catherine La Farge, the plants were originally found in the Teardrop glacier in Canada’s Ellsmere Island. The research was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of… Read more »
Has the world’s first bird fossil, a Jurassic era specimen some 150 to ...
Was the Mars rat flown to the red planet as part of a secret NASA conspiracy involving animal experiments? As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Mars rat photo was snapped in September of 2012 by NASA’s Curiosity rover. According to UFO Sightings Daily, the creature is either a lizard or a Mars rat: “This… Read more »
Does the red planet have rats? A photo taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover of ...
As someone who has streaked many an agar-filled petri dish with sample swabs, I know how nasty the invisible, microscopic world around us is – finding numerous colonies of cultured microorganisms germinating from stairway rails, elevator buttons, toilet seats, door knobs, and other such ilk. It would disturb you to both know which one is… Read more »
Webcams are everywhere else, so why not a webcam on the moon? A joint private-sector venture by the International Lunar Observatory Association and Moon Express, Inc. of Silicon Valley intends to land a telescope on the moon by 2015. Calling it “citizen science” on the Earth’s natural satellite, Moon Express CEO Bob Richards said that… Read more »
Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 boasts its own moon, according to NASA scientists, who discovered the object in a series of radar images taken Wednesday evening. While an asteroid having a moon might seem strange to us, about 16 percent of asteroids in the near-Earth population that measure 665 feet or larger are either binary or… Read more »
Rounded pebbles discovered on Mars are giving scientists more evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet. The pebbles were discovered by NASA’s newest rover Curiosity. The rover is on a trek to the middle of the Gale Crater, where Mount Sharp protrudes three miles into the air. The rover snapped several pictures of… Read more »
Amelia Earhart’s plane may have been spotted in a grainy sonar image ...
NASA has awarded Systems and Material Research Corporation (SMRC) in Austin ...
The blood of an extinct Siberian woolly mammoth has been found, with the ...
A green-eyed butterfly has been discovered in Texas and Mexico, and it could ...
Maybe you’re not on the Eastern seaboard — but the live cicada cam is there to show you what you’re missing. The live cicada cam marks the first time the appearance of the normally hibernating insects coincides with the existence of the social web. In decades past, people were forced to call relatives to complain… Read more »
A massive earthquake is going on under Wellington, New Zealand. But daily ...
A lunar eclipse is taking place Friday night, and the half of the world that ...
Cockroaches have started to resist poison, but not in the typical sense, ...
A UFO was recently spotted over a historic barn in Santee, California. ...
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