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The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Scientists say they may find proof aliens exist within five years thanks to a new telescope. The NASA James Webb Space Telescope could detect…

Earth’s biggest mass extinction 252 million years ago took TEN times longer on land than in the water Researchers examined the fossilised remains of animals dating back 252 years They looked at 588 animal fossils from the End-Permian mass extinction period They…

Leonardo da Vinci did NOT sculpt the Flora bust: Sculpture thought to be one of his works of art wasn’t created until 300 years AFTER his death, new analysis reveals The wax bust was purchased by the German curator Wilhelm von Bode in…

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'Rectangular UFO' spotted on Space Station camera When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we…

A 'ghost' with 'see-through' legs was seen waiting for a bus by a spooked a tour guide who caught the eerie figure on camera. Ivan Rubil, 30, is used to taking Brits to 'haunted spots' in Zagreb, Croatia but was not at…

Obama, Shaquille O’Neal, and Charles Barkley urged Black people to get the coronavirus vaccine in a new video. Obama noted demand among the powerful: “That means everybody should know it’s a good thing to get.” Berkley said he was urging “every Black…

An adorable fluffy white cat was caught red-pawed smuggling drugs into a notorious jail, guards have said. Cats are allegedly being used to smuggle drugs in the infamous Central American prison in Panama. Authorities at Nueva Esperanza Prison said they caught a…

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted “kids of any age” will be able to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by 2022.  Schools across the country are in the process of reopening for in-person learning.  So far, over 22% of the US population has been fully…

Florida’s cases of “variants of concern” surged since the spring break peak, the Orlando Sentinel reported. There were 5,177 cases involving those variants as of Thursday — six times higher than mid-March. One health expert said,https://www.insider.com/miami-beach-spring-break-photos-state-of-emergency-2021-3 “This is kind of what a…

NASA plans to launch its Ingenuity helicopter on Mars on Monday. “Our team considers Monday’s attempted first flight like a rocket launch,” wrote NASA’s MiMi Aung.  The flight had been delayed after a test ended abruptly due to a “watchdog” timer. See…

Global coronavirus deaths surpassed 3 million on Saturday. More than a third of those deaths occurred in the US, Brazil, and India.  Brazil and India are still seeing devastating surges in coronavirus deaths amid vaccine shortages. See more stories on Insider’s business…

NASA: Alan Shepard hits golf ball on the moon in 1971 When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains…

NASA is awarding SpaceX an exclusive contract to land humans on the moon. The company’s Starship spaceship will carry NASA’s Artemis astronaut missions. SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, beat out Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin for the contract. See more stories on Insider’s…

A truck driver was "dive-bombed" with a live fish at over 60mph when a passing careless gull lost its grip on its lunch. The trucker’s bizarre – and potentially dangerous – adventure was captured on his dashcam and the clip was made…

Scorpion venom is not only dangerous — it can also make you quite a bit of money.  The deathstalker is one of the most dangerous scorpions on the planet, and its venom is also the most expensive liquid in the world at $39…

Doing household chores such as cleaning and tidying could help prevent dementia, study claims Canadian experts show household chores such as dusting help boost brain size Bigger brains can help prevent dementia – the ongoing decline of brain function More strenuous physical activity is already…

Scientists injected human stem cells into macaque embryos into a study on human development.  Some of the embryos continued to develop for 20 days, researchers said.  But the experiment has sparked an ethical debate among scientists.  See more stories on Insider’s business…

A video of a triangular UFO has been confirmed as real by the Pentagon, CNN reported.  The Pentagon also confirmed that further stills, showing objects of various shapes, are real. The Department of Defense’s Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force is studying them,…

Iran’s contact-tracing app reveals living in a busy city does NOT increase a person’s chance of catching Covid (but overcrowding does) Scientists analysed cases in Tehran, one of the early epicentres of the pandemic They took the data from AC-19, Iran’s controversial national…

Tyrannosaurus rex: Expert examines brain of dinosaur When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we…

In a move that some scientists say raises serious ethical questions, researchers have for the first time embryos that are a hybrid of human and monkey cells. Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratories at the Salk Institute…

About 5,800 fully vaccinated Americans have gotten COVID-19 so far, according to the CDC. Such “breakthrough” cases are to be expected, the CDC said, as vaccines aren’t 100% effective. Breakthrough infections are rare, affecting around 0.008% of vaccinated individuals, but they’re more…

The Tyrannosaurus rex was around for 2.5 million years before the dinosaurs went extinct. A new study suggests that a total of 2.5 billion adult T. rexes lived and died during that period. Paleontologists arrived at the figure by calculating the T….

Can ‘Digory’ end the illegal ivory market? Groundbreaking new 3D printed alternative can be polished to create ‘deceptively authentic-looking substitutes’ to elephant tusks Scientists used resin and calcium phosphate particles as the base The mixture was processed as hot, liquid and harden using…

‘What is the moral status of these novel creatures?’ Scientists raise ethical concerns after lab creates a human-monkey HYBRID for cancer research Chinese-US researchers implanted human stem cells inside a monkey embryo The resulting hybrid was able to grow and develop for…

Meet T. djokovici! New species of SNAIL is named after tennis ace Novak Djokovic ‘to acknowledge his inspiring enthusiasm and energy’ Researchers found the new species in a spring in the Montenegrin Dinaric Alps T. djokovici has a 1.8-mm-tall white spiral shell…

Trendy ‘mindfulness’ programmes can make you more SELFISH: Meditation increases egotistical behaviours for independent people, study finds Researchers studied how independence altered the response to mindfulness   Found in independent people it triggers more selfish behaviours  But in people who are team players by nature it has…

MBR Space Centre announces an agreement with ispace When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how…

Mound of 4,300-year-old bat guano ‘taller than a human’ reveals ancient history of Jamaica starting with dry periods in 1350 BC to the first cars on the island Experts scooped out four-inch slices of guano from a pile more than six feet…