Mummies ‘suffered heart disease’
HEART disease is thought of as being a product of the modern lifestyle, but a new study suggests the affliction was just as common in ancient times.
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Skydiver almost hit by meteor captures it on camera
A SKYDIVER narrowly avoided being struck by a meteorite and managed to capture it on video.
Bill Clinton says aliens may exist
BILL Clinton wouldn’t be surprised if aliens one day visited Earth — he just hopes it doesn’t turn out to be like “Independence Day”.
Do animals sense Yellowstone blast?
DO THEY know something we don’t? Reports of animals fleeing Yellowstone National Park sparks fears the park’s supervolcano may be set to blow.
Ocean discovered on Saturn moon
SATURN confirms its status as the planet with everything — beauty, rings, and now a moon with a large underground ocean.
‘Noah’s Ark would have floated’
NOAH’S Ark would have floated — even with millions of animals on board, physicists have determined.
Popular science myths busted
DO GOLDFISH really have bad memories? And will cracking your knuckles give you arthritis? Dr Karl helps us bust some of science’s oldest myths
Quake fears hit ‘Ring of Fire’
AS an 8.2 magnitude earthquake shook Chile yesterday there are fears a massive ‘ring of fire’ around the Pacific Rim may be the location of impending disaster.
NASA cuts ties with Russia
NASA has cut ties with its Russian counterpart — but experts warn ‘divorce is not an option’ when it comes to the International Space Station.
The real reason the zebra got its stripes
THOUGHT they were for camouflage? It’s not as black and white as that with new research claiming to solve one of nature’s most beautiful riddles.
Stem cell breakthrough was bogus
WHAT was touted as a game-changing discovery in the production of stem cells has been exposed as a fabrication.
Holy Grail ‘found’ in Spanish church
HISTORIANS say they have discovered what Monty Python could not — the Holy Grail, the cup Jesus drank from — in a Spanish church.
Computer can recognise 21 emotions
EVER wondered if you look happily disgusted? Or sadly angry? There may one day be an app for that.
China ‘to spy on whole world’
FRUSTRATED by the fruitless search for flight MH370, China is said to be considering a plan to cover the globe with surveillance satellites.
Youngest Aussie to travel to space
TIM Gibson is an ordinary guy who dreamt of going to space ever since he was a little boy. Now, at 29, he will become the youngest Australian astronaut.
Secrets of the Black Death revealed
ONE of the deadliest diseases ever recorded has had us running scared of rats ever since. But new findings reveal we might be wrong for blaming our furry foes.
Can maths solve MH370 mystery?
MATHS wizards who pinpointed the final resting place of a doomed Air France stand ready to help find the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.
Pink world found lurking in solar system
ASTRONOMERS have discovered a new neighbour in our solar system: a pink, frozen planet hiding in an area of space many thought deserted.
Astronomers discover asteroid rings
ASTONISHED astronomers say they have found rings around an asteroid, the smallest object known to have this feature.
Why do we forget names at parties?
HAVE we got bad brains or are we just bad people? Science has the answer to why we suffer this embarrassing social amnesia.
DNA clues to Elvis’s cause of death
A TV show that attempts to sequence the DNA of historical figures claims to have discovered what really caused Elvis Presley’s early death.
‘Kill rats before they grow bigger than sheep’
IN A spectacular case of PR hyperbole, a pest control company urges people to kill rats before they grow as large as sheep. But is there any truth to their bleating?
Egypt’s old king rises again
ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unveiled two colossal statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in Egypt’s famed temple city of Luxor.
Satellites ‘could predict sinkholes’
RADAR images taken from planes or satellites could some day be used to predict where dangerous sinkholes might form, NASA says.
The vessels that will search the Indian Ocean
IT SEEMS we have our most promising lead yet in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. It’s the largest search in history, so what is being used to find the plane?
Aussies see oldest ever star
AUSTRALIAN astronomers say they have found a star 13.6 billion years old, making it the most ancient star ever seen.
UK footprints 800,00 years old
SCIENTISTS have discovered footprints in England that are the oldest ever found outside Africa.
Secret project tested Down Under
AN AWESOME new piece of military technology has been tested secretly in the Australian desert. You won’t believe what it can do.
It’s in his kiss: Robber caught via DNA
A MAN who allegedly robbed a jewellery store in Paris was tracked down through his DNA after he kissed a hostage out of compassion.
‘Whoa! Look at that huge blob’
SCIENTISTS are working to classify a new species of giant jellyfish, after kids discovered the massive blob on a beach south of Hobart.
Creationism ‘will put US behind’
TV’s “Science Guy” Bill Nye says in a debate that there are infinite discoveries yet to be made about the universe and how we got here.
Secret space plane’s 400-day mission
A SPACE plane has been orbiting Earth for more than 400 days, on a mission kept shrouded in secrecy by US military chiefs. Why?
Health gadgets we wish we had
AS Google gets set to release contact lenses that monitor your health by studying your tears we take a look at gadgets we wish we had.
Electronic tongue with taste for beer
SPANISH researchers have created an electronic “tongue” capable of distinguishing between beer varieties and their alcohol content.
Five Ways Our Lives Could Change Drastically In The Next 5 Years
DOCTORS will use your own DNA to keep you well and you will have an internet guardian – the world will change, and IBM thinks it knows how.
We’re more Neanderthal than we think
NEXT time you call someone a Neanderthal, look in a mirror. Many of the genes for most people’s skin and hair are more Neanderthal than not.
Growing transplant tissue ‘a step closer’
SCIENTISTS have found a way to turn animal cells back to a youthful, neutral state, a feat hailed as a “game-changer” in growing transplant tissue.
NASA sued over alien life on Mars
NASA is being sued by a self-described scientist for failing to investigate “alien life” on the planet Mars after a rock mysteriously appeared.
Why do we itch? The science behind the scratch
THE reason behind why we have the unbearable need to scratch an itch has been explained and why pain might be the answer to the urge.
Aussie solves mystery of plagues
AN Australian scientist has helped explain the mystery of two of history’s most deadly plagues, the Black Death and Plague of Justinian.
Pentagon slams new Aussie jets
NEW reports from the US military’s top weapons testing expert at the Pentagon have raised fresh doubts about two of Australia’s air power projects.
Everything you wanted to know about the boomer brain
Is there really such a thing as a brain fart? A brain freeze? Or a brainiac? The National Geographic has gone inside the brain to find out.
Europeans once had dark skin, blue eyes
THE DNA of a hunter-gatherer who lived in Spain some 7,000 years ago suggests ancient Europeans had dark skin and blue eyes.
‘Tornado whips up feral cats’
A MINI-TORNADO which ripped through England was so powerful it lifted a pack of feral cats up into the air “like a big paper bag”, a witness said.
Moon rover hit by ‘abnormality’
CHINA’S Jade Rabbit moon rover has experienced a “mechanical control abnormality”, in a setback for the landmark mission.
Hawking: There are no black holes
A RADICAL new paper has the scientific community rethinking everything it knows about black holes (if you can understand it).
Man develops star shaped eyes after electric shock
STARS in his eyes. An electrician develops bizarre symptoms after suffering a massive electric shock.
Ancient tablet reveals ‘Ark before Noah’
IT’S a few notches on a 4000-year-old clay tablet. But what it reveals about the ancient biblical story of Noah’s ark has scholars crowing the world over.
NASA launches new satellite
NASA’s super-high-flying fleet of communication satellites just got bigger.
‘Genetic mutations cause schizophrenia’
SCHIZOPHRENIA is caused by a large number of rare genetic mutations rather than a few, easily-identifiable faulty genes, scientists say.
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