Sci/Environment

NASA have made an intriguing announcement on their website, which says that they have solved the “Mars mystery”.  The agency say they will detail a major science finding from the ongoing Mars explorations during a […]

The discovery of a skull and a pair of dismembered hands found in Brazil in 2007 have now been named the oldest known instance of a decapitation to happen in the New World. From GeoBeats News: […]

Researchers at the University of Washington have successfully conducted the world’s first brain-to-brain mind reading experiment, by directly linking up two human brains.  The experiment has proven that two human brains can be linked so […]

The massive and productive Florida Miami-Dade County agricultural (fruit and produce) zone has been shut down due to a small fly. From MSN.com: The creature, known as the Oriental fruit fly, is capable of feeding […]

A 16-year-old girl from the U.S. has won the 2015 Google Science Fair with her project which outlines how to develop a cheap, economic, and quick test for the Ebola virus.  Olivia Hallisey says the […]

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may be capable of generating a magnetic field strong enough to pull asteroids towards the earth, some reports suggest.  Some of the more whacky theories suggest that the LHC could […]

Scientists have discovered that seismic pressure caused in the aftermath of a large earthquake, can cause other earthquakes to occur up to 1,000 km away.  Italian scientists say that seismic pressure causes the particles in […]

Following Scotland,  Germany, Greece and Latvia, Northern Ireland is also banning genetically modified (GM) crops under the new EU opt-out regulations. Mark H Durkan the Environment Minister announced on Monday that he is prohibiting the cultivation […]

A diver from Hawaii is causing a sensation after uploading a video of horrific (and it is GROSS) damage done to his body after being attacked by a tiger shark.  The man was spearfishing when […]

NASA announced that their solar observatory (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO) launched in 1995 in conjunction with the ESA has just discovered its 3,000th comet. From GeoBeats News: A milestone was recently reached by […]