Fermi Paradox
The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where...
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Hitler’s Jurassic monsters
This is the untold story of a Nazi vision, that went far beyond the military conquest of European countries. As part of their crazed dream to create a thousand-year Reich they developed detailed blueprints...
A Brief History of Time
Watch Errol Morris’s A Brief History of Time, the 1991 biographical documentary film about Stephen Hawking. The title derives from Hawking’s 1988 bestselling book in which he attempts to explain a range of subjects in cosmology, including the Big Bang,...
The Universe in 4 Minutes
Funny thing about sub-atomic particles, sometimes they behave as waves other times as particles depending how they’re feeling and whether or not they’re on their period. Anyway, nothing means anything and we’re all gonna...
Surgical leeches and facial reconstruction
The world’s first plastic surgery Willie Vicarage, who was suffering from WWI facial wounds that he sustained in the Battle of Jutland in 1916, was one of the first men to receive facial reconstruction...
5000 year old beer brewing kit found in China
Anyone for a Stone Age pint? We now have some idea of how the beer would have been made 5000 years ago, thanks to the residue left on an apparent beer-making toolkit uncovered in...
Mouse study finds link between gut bacteria and neurogenesis
Antibiotics strong enough to kill off gut bacteria can also stop the growth of new brain cells in the hippocampus, a section of the brain associated with memory, reports a study in mice published...
I started doing the “hand thing”
Old jewels are never forgotten. Evolution of the human hand: the role of throwing and clubbing It has been proposed that the hominid lineage began when a group of chimpanzee-like apes began to throw...
Toothpaste Tips and Myths
Anti-cavity: This claim is pretty cut and dried—and trustworthy. If toothpaste contains fluoride, it helps prevent cavities by several mechanisms, including remineralizing tooth enamel so it can be more resistant to the acid produced...
Mariana Trench Jellyfish
When you think you’ve seen everything… The Mariana Trench is located in western Pacific Ocean. It is about 2,550 kilometres long with an average width of 69 kilometres. It is the deepest part of the world’s...
