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The world could end in 25 years, says Oxford scientist

Happy Sunday! Humankind has just a quarter of a century left before we’re all wiped out, apparently. 13 years since those doomy days of 2012, which saw the Mayan calendar misinterpreted by what seemed like half of the world’s population who convinced themselves that natural disasters would extinguish all life on our planet, Oxford University […]

5 months ago

Team of scientists trapped in isolated Antarctica base for 10 months – one of them just attacked the others

Cabin fever might be setting in A researcher at an isolated base in Antartica has sent a worrying email requesting help after another scientist threatened to kill one of their colleagues. The group of 10 scientists from South Africa are due to remain at the base for a further 10 months, and the -50C temperatures […]

11 months ago

Drinking tap water could put 40 per cent of UK population at greater risk of dementia

It is the first study of its kind A new study has found that drinking tap water could be putting millions of the UK population at greater risk of developing dementia due to low levels of minerals. Scientists believe around 40 per cent of the UK population could be at risk of developing dementia as […]

1 year ago

Scientists may have discovered potential cure for baldness

We could be on the brink of a major breakthrough in preventing hair loss. A team of scientists at the University of Manchester have made a new cell discovery that has the potential to lead to a cure for baldness. The research found that a biological stress response can cause hair follicles to switch off and die, […]

1 year ago

Harvard scientists say aliens could be living on earth in ‘stealth civilisation’

They could be walking amongst us. A team of scientists from Harvard and Montana Technological University have published a new report that suggests that aliens could currently be living on earth in deep underground bases and disguising themselves as humans. In a new research paper, titled ‘The Cryptoterrestrial Hypothesis‘, the scientists estimate that there is […]

1 year ago

Scientists have resurrected a 46,000-year-old parasite frozen in Siberian permafrost

Nothing to be concerned about Scientists resurrected a microscopic worm that had been living in the Siberian permafrost for the last 46,000 years in a study that sheds new light on our own evolutionary process. In a study published in PLOS Genetics, a group of scientists carbon-dated and sequenced the genome of two nematodes – […]

2 years ago