Megalodons were more than 6.5 feet long at birth. As adults, the huge, prehistoric sharks reached lengths of 50 feet and had heads the size of cars. That's far bigger than any other meat-eating shark, living or extinct. A new study suggests…
The ultimate ‘tell’: Liars start to mimic the actions of their interviewers when spinning a huge whopper, study finds Researchers used motion capture technology to monitor volunteer movements They had people tell the truth and increasingly complicated lies to interviewers As the…
Survival of the fittest: There is ‘no limit’ to the health benefits of exercise for our hearts, study claims Researchers studied 90,000 UK residents with no prior cardiovascular disease They had them wear an accelerometer to measure activity levels over a week …
‘A disaster waiting to happen’: Space junk left behind by humans has formed the equivalent of a ‘drifting island of plastic’ in low-Earth orbit, expert warns Ekaterini Kavvada described space junk as ‘not a theoretical threat but a reality’ The floating debris…
Fox News Flash top headlines for January 12 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. A mysterious shipwreck has emerged from the sands of a beach in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Tour guide Ray Stallings posted…
Sony offers first glimpse of its Airpeak drone that can carry an Alpha camera on an adjustable gimbal and capture footage and images from the air Sony unveiled its first Airpeak drone at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) The model features a…
Baby shark doom doom doom: Warming oceans are causing shark hatchlings to be born smaller, undernourished and exhausted Researchers from Australia studied epaulette sharks from the Great Barrier Reef This species lays eggs that are left unprotected for four months before hatching The…
The fourth of the 12 Caesars, Caligula — officially, Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus — was a capricious, combustible first-century populist remembered, perhaps unfairly, as the empire’s most tyrannical ruler. As reported by Suetonius, the Michael Wolff of ancient Rome, he never forgot…
Sun: Large solar flare seen producing plume of plasma The Sun has been a key catalyst for life on our planet since the first cells reproduced 3.8 billion years ago. However, stars such as our solar system’s Sun periodically spew electromagnetic energy…
Millions of WhatsApp users ABANDON the app and switch to rivals Telegram or Signal ahead of privacy policy update that will force them to share their personal data with Facebook WhatsApp is making a huge change to its privacy policy from February…
NASA begins assembling Artemis space launch system Margaret Weitekamp, curator at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum weighs in on NASA’s preparation for the future of American spaceflight. The departure of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon cargo craft from the International Space Station was…
Ancient Mesopotamia: Expert discusses history in 2016 An ancient coin, dating back to 1807, has been found in the Scottish highlands by a metal detectorist. The coin, which has a reasonably high value, may have been brought back to Scotland after the…
SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites into orbit The Starlink satellite broadband system has been given regulatory approval for the UK, meaning customers could begin signing up. Starlink is the plans from Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide internet to all quarters…
A large number of healthcare workers in US nursing homes and hospitals are refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As much as 80% are turning down a shot in some institutions, according to AP. In a number of states, officials have raised…
Dinosaurs: Fossil shows 'different appearance' says expert About one mile outside of the ancient city of Jerusalem, in the village of Beit Zayit, visitors can experience first hand the only-known evidence of dinosaurs in the Holy Land. The Beit Zayit prints were…
NASA: ‘Can’t rule out’ life on Pluto says astronomer Experts believe in roughly five billion years, the star at the centre of our Solar System will run out of energy and drastically alter the cosmos. The sphere of hot plasma has not…
The SAS have got ET in their sights, the Daily Star Sunday can reveal. A special projects unit of around 20 troopers is ready to tackle “alternative threats’’. The elite soldiers are trained to use non-lethal weapons against a variety of potential…
Area 51: ‘Giant robot’ spotted on Google Earth map Pilot Gabe Zeifman has shared his images of the secretive Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), more commonly known as Area 51, after a flight on December 25. Mr Zeifman, who is an…
Dogs are man's best friend, but they weren't always the cuddly housetrained pooches we know and love today. Thousands of years ago there were no tame dogs, only wild wolves. But slowly humans domesticated the large canine species, eventually turning them from…
Satellite images show that one-third of US rivers have noticeably changed color since 1984, a study found. Most of these rivers became more green — a shift that indicates algae blooms, which can deplete oxygen in the water and produce toxins. Researchers…
Tom Hanks shows off new haircut for role in Elvis film Elvis would have turned 86 years old today, had he not sadly died in 1977 after enduring a cardiac arrest in his bathroom in Graceland, Memphis. His death stunned the globe,…
Human activity will push the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere over 50 per cent above pre-industrial levels in 2021, Met Office predicts Carbon dioxide levels will exceed 417 parts per million for the first time on record The peak is expected to come…
In a lush, bygone landscape, a hungry Triceratops munches on low-lying ferns and cone-bearing cycad plants to power its 10-ton frame. The animal swallows huge mouthfuls of roughage, seeds and all, before ambling off in search of new feeding grounds. Days later…
It is one of the most infamous conspiracies of all time – did Elvis Presley fake his own death to escape superstardom? When the King of Rock and Roll died on August 16, 1977, the music industry and his millions of fans…
The science of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has revealed four concepts have been selected for the next generation of space research. NASA’s Pioneers program allows researchers to propose innovative experiments and lead…
NASA explains ‘RING OF FIRE’ around huge Andromeda Galaxy The Milky Way is no stranger to cannibalism on a galactic scale, having consumed many smaller star clusters in its 13.5 billion-year history. Even now, the Milky Way is in the process of…
Countryfile: Helen Skelton meets dormice captured in plastic bags The archaeological disaster was uncovered by a team from the University of Liverpool at Castell Henlyss in The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, southwest Wales. Castell Henlyss is one of Britain’s most iconic archaeological…
SpaceX Starship explodes whilst attempting to land during test SpaceX carried out a static fire test on Wednesday, briefly lighting up the Starship’s three Raptor engines. Before the SN9 prototype can take to the skies, SpaceX has to test its flight capabilities…
A woman has claimed to have met a group of beings leading her to heaven during a 30-minute near-death experience. Mary Neal, an orthopaedic spine surgeon, was found lifeless after going over a waterfall on a kayak in Chile 22 years ago….
Kīlauea Caldera: Dome fountain formed at lava lake inlet The tail-end of 2020 witnessed reinvigorated volcanic eruptions at Hawaii’s Kilauea. The volcanic activity has injected new impetus to the University of Hawaii’s Vog Measurement and Prediction (VMAP) Project. This is an attempt…
