This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way has been obtained using the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. It’s part of a huge picture (108,200 x 81,500 pixels) which…
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18000 Year Old Puppy Frozen in Permafrost Puzzles Scientists
Was this 18,000-year-old puppy frozen in Siberian permafrost the ancestor of wolves, dogs or both? Meet Dogor, an 18,000-year-old pup recently unearthed in Siberian permafrost whose name means ‘friend’ in the Yakut language. The remains…
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The Famous Easter Island Head Statues Actually Have Bodies
This funny image with two of the famous Easter Island statues sitting with their body and folded arms under the ground is not as far from reality as one might think. We all have seen the…
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The hypothetical clock measures our nearness to Armageddon. Humanity’s headlong dash toward our own destruction is marked in minutes and seconds in the ticking of the hypothetical Doomsday Clock. How close we are to destroying…
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‘Alien sex won’t be like you think’: Evolutionary biologist reveals how extraterrestrials might reproduce
WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Top scientist reveals her thoughts on what ET might get up to in the bedroom What happens when a little green man loves a little green woman and decides to have a…
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US Space Force logo on left and the Star Trek emblem on right The newly unveiled logo for US Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went before. Twitter users noted that…
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Scientists Say We Travel To Parallel Universe When We Dream
Every night, humans have an average of 6-10 dreams. A few minutes after being awoken, these dreams are usually forgotten. However, what if there’s actual meaning to dreams that would make them more lucrative to…
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Is it better to free your mind? Or live in blissful ignorance? Two WIRED writers argue it out. Sometimes existing on the internet can feel like being trapped in that dark room with Morpheus, the…
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Elon Musk’s satellites mistaken for UFOs over Oswestry
Stargazers in Oswestry and its bordering regions were left baffled after a series of high-flying lights moved across the skies. The lights were spotted on Sunday night as they flew over many parts of the…
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SpaceX may try to catch Crew Dragon capsules with a giant net. (No, really.)
Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief may end up catching more than just payload fairings. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut taxis may not always cap their missions with ocean splashdowns. The company might end up trying to snag returning…
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Abandoned in space in 1967, a U.S. satellite started transmitting again in 2013
After learning that a satellite that’s been silent for decades has suddenly started sending out new signals you may, of course, suspect that the device has been hijacked by aliens now trying to communicate with…
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The mysterious Benben stone: An obelisk-like stone that was symbolic of the primeval mound of creation in Heliopolis
The Benben stone is an object found in the mythology of ancient Egypt. It is a stone with a conical shape and, according to some theorists, may be of extraterrestrial origin. The Benben stone is also an…
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Tomorrow’s wars will be faster, more high-tech, and less human than ever before. Welcome to a new era of machine-driven warfare. Wallops island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near…