Grass and Other Organisms Add New Leaf to Darwinian Evolution
Grass can take an “evolutionary shortcut,” swiping genes from neighboring species to get an advantage. That’s what University of Sheffield researchers found out in a...
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Conventional Thinking Proved Wrong About Sound Waves
In February 2019, three researchers at Columbia University published results of an experiment showing that sound waves can carry gravitational mass. Through the experiment, they found that...
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Venomous Humans Could Evolve Due to Common Ancestor with Reptiles
Scientists have learned that venomous humans could one day become real. The headline elicits the response, “Aren’t they already venomous?” For example, watching politicians talk, one...
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Opening Up a Can of Wormholes into Unexplained Phenomena
Wormholes could be real, and humans could travel through them, as shared by mainstream Popular Mechanics recently. At the same time, mainstream news is regularly reporting on UFO...
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Massive Lava Tubes on Mars and the Moon Could Shelter Astronauts
Lava tubes on Mars could provide shelter for astronauts, according to a new study. Earlier studies have suggested the same could apply to the Moon....
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Sky Cars Are Here and Some Look Like a Flying Saucer
The idea of air travel by sky car or flying saucer has been around for decades, with patents by Alexander Weygers and Nikola Tesla from the Roaring...
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Mermaids and Mermen: Are Ancient Legends of Sea Goddesses in Alaska True?
Are legends of mermaids and mermen based on something real? If so, stories dating back to the first writings are nothing like the Little Mermaid. ...
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Scientists On How Trees Talk Through an Ancient ‘Otherworld’ Network
Trees talk to each other deep underground. It’s an idea still relatively new to science but familiar to ancient beliefs. Today, scientists are confirming that...
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Astrophysicist on Likely Outcome if a Time Traveler Tried to Stop COVID-19
Is it possible for a time traveler to change the past? If so, it appears the universe might have some unknown power to rearrange events....
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Megaflood on Mars: Another Sign of Life on the Red Planet
Today, we learn about a megaflood on Mars; just the latest evidence life existed there in the past. Furthermore, chances are, it could live there...
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Ancient Drepanosaur – A Mix of Anteater, Bird, and Chameleon Found in Petrified Forest
During an internship at the Petrified Forest in Arizona, Idaho State University Ph.D. student Xavier Jenkins and a group of National Park Service interns made a spectacular...
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5,000-Year-Old Penguin ‘Mummies’ Found in Antarctica
Penguin mummies dating back thousands of years have been discovered in Antarctica. An ornithologist from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, Steven Emslie, has studied penguins in...
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An Ancient Tablet’s Clue to Immortality Sounds Like One Scientists Study Now
A strange alien-looking creature spreading across the world’s oceans is practically immortal. It’s Turritopsis dohrnii, the “immortal jellyfish” that can avoid death when stressed. In a manner that’s similar...
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Researchers Stunned by ‘Plausible’ Sign of Life on Venus
Venus is often the subject of stories about Venusians and extraterrestrial life. However, the idea of life on Venus seems crazy. After all, temperatures on...
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Ancient Dogs that Sing Like Whales Rediscovered in the Wild
Wild dogs among those thought to be “the most ancient domestic dogs on earth” have been rediscovered in Papua New Guinea after half a century....
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Study finds that inbreeding and other demographic problems alone could have wiped out Neanderthals
Humans may not have been responsible for the ultimate extinction of the Neanderthals according to a new study by Dutch researchers who wanted to know...
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Mass extinction saw an invasion of giant-headed Komodo Dragon-like Triassic predators
Today, we marvel at creatures such as crocodiles and Komodo Dragons, but they would be even more fearsome if they had giant heads. And it...
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Researchers discover new 91-million-year-old giant shark species in Kansas
Deep in the heart of northern Kansas, researchers excavated farmland that used to be under the ocean and ended up finding a brand new species...
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Study suggests Neanderthals were wiped out by a common childhood ear infection
Of all the possible ways the Neanderthals may have gone extinct, it turns out that it may have been as simple as a common childhood...
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New study reveals what brought down the powerful Assyrian empire
For 1,400 years, the ancient Assyrian empire dominated the Middle East ruling an area stretching from Turkey to Egypt and east to Iran through what...
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Scientists genetically link orangutans to giant ape thought to be Bigfoot
Bigfoot may or may not be real, but there is a living relative of the giant ape thought to be Bigfoot already living among us...
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Archaeologists apply radar tech to study ‘ghost footprints’ of ancient humans and animals
Unbeknownst to most of us, there are ancient footprints right under our feet beneath the ground we continue to walk on today, and now scientists...
