A viral video showing a bird suspended in midair is circulated via social networks. This caught the attention and astonished many. Instantly Twitter users began to speculate and jokingly said that it was “a glitch in the Matrix.” The video below shows the...

Curium and Nobelium are just a few of the elements on the periodic table named after the scientists who discovered them.

These spheres are thought to be over 150 million years old. A unique landscape is home to the Torysh Valley, Kazakhstan. There are many stone spheres of various sizes scattered throughout the surface. It’s as if in the distant past, it rained massive sphe...

You may want to check your shelves — tens of thousands of books were bound in emerald green between the 1840s and 1860s and they're laced with arsenic, say conservators.

Our world is deprived of images of the Goddesses. That is not to say they don’t exist, but they are buried, hidden, and disguised in our culture, or they have been misunderstood and polluted. How can we recognize someone if we do not know how She looks ...

Elephants are one of the smartest and most powerful animals in the world. It is no wonder then that these magnificent beasts were exploited and trained to be brutal executioners.
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A stunning Neolithic roundel structure that is older than Stonehenge has been announced by Czech Republic archaeologists.
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The enigma of fast radio bursts may be on its way to being cracked, writes Becky Ferreira, based on a new paper from Nanjing University. While the answer isn't you-know-who, there are plenty of data points outlining the essential parts of this cosmic myst...

This weekend's stories include JWST's Data Is So Incredible That Even Those Who Built It Are Questioning Previous Science to to Do fundamental laws of nature apply to all objects, at all times and in all locations, all across the Universe? and much more....

While mainstream science might consider bigfoot to be a joke, there are many true believers. Even more than a handful from their hallowed academic halls. Fortunately Kris Maher tagged along on a few unofficial expeditions and expounds upon the earnest bel...

Given recent headlines, you may be wondering why polio is even an issue in 2022. For more than 60 years, vaccines against the poliovirus have protected virtually everyone in the United States from the disease. Due to an enormously successful polio vaccin...

Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a few particularly interesting planets orbiting in ...

NASA will host two media briefings Monday, Sept. 26, in preparation for the fifth crew rotation mission with SpaceX as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Birthday balloons falling limply to the ground. Satellites, medical scanners and TVs fading to black. And twinkling stars in the night sky disappearing one by one. All in just five seconds without helium. What would the loss of helium do to your body? H...

Three cosmonauts living aboard the International Space Station are set to return to Earth Thursday, Sept. 29.

Today on What If, we’re taking Jupiter’s deadly gases and unleashing them on Earth. Where could you be safe from these toxic winds? How would you breathe? And how would the Great Red Spot wreak havoc on Earth?
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    A map created in 2021 revealed the extremely violent center of our Milky Way Galaxy. New research and images by University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang reveals, with unprecedented clarity, an X-ray thread, G0.17-0.41, which hints a...

In an effort to learn more about potentially hazardous asteroids, astronomers have used telescopic surveys to find an image of a space rock that produced a 0.4-kiloton fireball over the Pacific Ocean

For about two hours, a bubble of extremely hot electrons whirled around the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole at 30 per cent of the speed of light, and then it was destroyed