Sci/Environment

The world of famed inventor Nikola Tesla is one that is still trying to be understood in our modern age. While many devout Tesla fans may think they know everything about him, PPCorn.com has put […]

A Chinese designer from Hong Kong has built himself an android that resembles actress Scarlett Johansson. Ricky Ma said it was his childhood dream to design a humanoid after becoming obsessed with robots and animation. […]

Even the most casual reader of alternative news and theories has come across information about a so-called “Planet X“, or as it is more popularly known in New Age circles, “Planet Nibiru”. The things written […]

Japan plans to build a 1.5-km-long underground refrigeration system around the Fukushima nuclear power plant in the hope of containing groundwater contamination around the crippled facility. Radioactive water has been seeping into the groundwater and […]

Two amateur astronomers spotted space rock smashing into the surface of Jupiter while filming the largest planet in the solar system. Video shows the flash of a large object, thought to be an asteroid or a […]

An American geneticist says he has compelling evidence that the human race began as a love affair between a female chimpanzee and a male pig. Dr. Eugene McCarthy, who happens to be one of the […]

New research suggests that dinosaurs and their subsequent apocalypse was caused by a sudden “global cooling” which occurred when Earth passed through a “giant molecular cloud”. GeoBeats news reports: An asteroid is commonly believed to […]

A fascinating creature known as the Siberian unicorn was thought by scientists to have died out around 350,000 years ago. But the discovery of an almost perfectly preserved skull which was found in Kazakhstan has […]

A travel booking company is offering a free overnight stay at an underwater glass bedroom surrounded by 35 sharks at the Paris Aquarium. Three lucky winners and their guests will be invited to stay at the […]

File this one under scary. A group of Frankenstein-like scientists have announced the creation of a synthetic organism that has been stripped to its most basic state of being. The organism has the fewest genes […]