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Supernova, Trump ‘fill prophecy’
A SCHOLAR says a supernova, along with the election of Donald Trump, both foretell the arrival of a Jewish messiah.
Printable human skin is here
SCIENTISTS create a prototype for a 3D bio-printer that is capable of printing functional human skin.
Turns out cats also remember everything
NEVER doublecross your cat. A study of our favourite pets show they’re much better at filing memories away than we thought.
Dwarf galaxies shed light on dark matter
A FRESH sighting of clustered dwarf galaxies has bolstered a leading theory about how big galaxies such as our own Milky Way are formed.
Supernova, Trump ‘fill prophecy’
A SCHOLAR says a supernova, along with the election of Donald Trump, both foretell the arrival of a Jewish messiah.
Dwarf galaxies shed light on dark matter
A FRESH sighting of clustered dwarf galaxies has bolstered a leading theory about how big galaxies such as our own Milky Way are formed.
NASA unveils ‘landing’ on Pluto
GLIMPSE the surface of an alien world in footage from a NASA spacecraft landing on the surface of Pluto.
Could you survive this space mission?
SIX scientists have entered a man-made dome atop an isolated Hawaii volcano, where they will spend the next eight months with no outside human contact.
‘It can spy on the whole world’
A MASSIVE laser surveillance system that will watch “the whole world” is about to be launched by the US army.
It’s official: we’re evolving into stupid
EVOLUTION is continuing to shape our future, research from Iceland has found. But not in the way we want. We’re losing our ability to learn.
What the hell does ‘OK’ stand for?
WE SAY it countless times a day, but have you ever stopped to wonder what “OK” stands for? The word has a bizarre history.
These words will soon be extinct
FORTNIGHT, fiance and twice are just some of the words we use now that are rapidly falling out of favour and could soon end up on a diction death row.
‘Power to change everything’
THEY could reverse cancer, eliminate obesity and alter genes forever. What you need to know about the group changing “everything”.
King Solomon’s lost mines exposed
ARE these the gates to King Solomon’s mines? Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a fortified trading post dating to the earliest days of the ancient Jewish state he led.
Scans unveil secrets of oldest mummies
THE world’s oldest mummies have just had an unusual check-up. More than 7,000 years after they were embalmed by the Chinchorro people.
Footprints reveal former sex lives
FOOTPRINTS discovered from 3.7 million years ago reveal that our predecessors had some raunchy sex sessions.
Printable human skin is here
SCIENTISTS create a prototype for a 3D bio-printer that is capable of printing functional human skin.
Tongue tattoos are now the latest craze
THIS bizarre tattoo trend is giving new meaning to the term tasteful ink. And it’s not as painful as you would expect.
Adults paying $10,500 for teenage blood
IN the quest to achieve eternal youthfulness, people are paying upwards of $10,500 to receive plasma transfusions from the blood of people ages 16 — 25.
Humans literally frozen in time
INSIDE a remote desert facility, hundreds of human bodies lie frozen in capsules, each waiting for their second life to start.
Turns out cats also remember everything
NEVER doublecross your cat. A study of our favourite pets show they’re much better at filing memories away than we thought.
Squirrel fights pigeon for pizza slice
MOVE over, Pizza Rat. A New York City squirrel loves cheesy slices so much, it fought off a pigeon for a piece.
Is a spider plague on the way?
THIS is the stuff of nightmares. Huntsman, redback and funnel-web spiders may start creeping into our homes en masse.
Croc decapitation is only the start
IT’S shallow and only a few metres wide. But Cahills Crossing is one of Australia’s most dangerous bodies of water. Those who enter rarely make it out alive.