Scientists discover a massive heat anomaly deep inside Mars
Mars has a hidden temperature divide, with its southern interior potentially hundreds of degrees hotter than the north and partially molten. The discovery could help
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Woman caught trying to cross border with 116 reptiles stashed in her jacket
One of the lizards recovered from the woman’s clothing (Picture: Russian Federal Customs Service/Cover Images) Customs officers were in for a shock when they searched
Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands
More than 150 years after Darwin’s finches helped reshape biology, Galápagos plants are exposing another evolutionary surprise. Giant daisies repeatedly developed similar heat-tolerant leaf shapes
Driver crashes into gate near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago after confusing it for a ‘car wash’
Alexa Rae Scharf bizarrely claimed she was at the car wash when she slammed her vehicle near the president’s Florida estate.
Woman recalls decisive ‘left hook’ after coming face-to-face with great white shark
Leah Stewart, a 34-year-old teacher and mom-of-one, survived a terrifying great white shark attack in Australia, after throwing a left hook at the ‘monster’
Chimpanzees have been hurling rocks at the same trees for more than a decade
Some chimpanzees in West Africa repeatedly throw rocks at particular trees, creating piles of stones that can remain in use for more than a decade.
Why scientists asked 1,000 people to bury their underwear
More than 1,000 volunteers buried cotton underwear across Switzerland to help scientists measure how active different soils are. The faster the fabric disappeared, the more
Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old
Ancient teeth and human DNA are revealing a surprising history of insect eating. Modern humans in northern Eurasia appear to have eaten insects only occasionally
What you eat before age 2 may affect your health 70 years later
Britain’s postwar sugar rationing created a rare natural experiment that let researchers examine how early sugar exposure might affect health decades later. People who experienced
Your brain may not actually “make” decisions
A neuroscientist is challenging the idea that the brain contains a central system that actually “makes” our decisions. What we experience as choosing may instead
Lipreader reveals what really went down during World Cup couple’s viral argument
The couple were filmed during their country’s World Cup match against South Korea (Picture: TikTok) A viral clip of a couple having a bust-up in
Scientists find hidden “highways” guiding animal evolution
A sweeping analysis of thousands of animal genomes suggests that chromosomes do not evolve randomly but instead follow a limited number of irreversible “evolutionary highways.”
Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons
A major study found that adults with depression show disrupted production of new neurons in the hippocampus, potentially weakening the brain’s ability to separate new