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In 1992, a tanker crash in Australia's Blue Mountains was doused with PFAS foam; 33 years on, tap water tested 300 times above the safe limitA 1992 petrol tanker crash in Australia's Blue Mountains caused PFAS contamination. Firefighters used foam containing these chemicals. Deca...- Moon lava tubes are emerging as one of the strongest shelter ideas for future astronautsScientists are increasingly interested in lunar lava tubes. These underground formations offer natural protection from radiation and extrem...
- New tree genus discovered in South America turns out to be a distant relative of tomatoes and potatoesAfter over two decades of study, scientists have officially named Daturodendron absconditum, a new genus of tree discovered in the Colombia...
- In 1998, a Beachgoer Walking Along a Quiet Shore in Norfolk - An Upside-Down Tree in the Sand - Revealed a Hidden Bronze Age Ritual SiteIn 1998, an ancient Bronze Age timber circle, Seahenge, was discovered at Holme-next-the-Sea after emerging from the sands due to erosion. ...
- Quote of the day by Mark Twain: ‘Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction sticks to possibilities, but truth isn't.’Mark Twain, a legendary writer, explored life's oddities through humor and insight. His famous quote, 'Truth is stranger than fiction,' res...
- Food delivery graveyard video: 'Ma'am, it's completely dark,' says delivery agent as woman insists on late-night cemetery drop. Netizens call it 'Stranger Things'Food delivery graveyard video: A delivery agent refused to enter a graveyard late at night to deliver food, citing safety concerns after th...
- 'Wasn't even human...': Job seeker's bizarre interview experience goes viralA job candidate's interview took a strange turn when the interviewer's responses became eerily repetitive. The candidate suspected an AI av...
- Here’s how you can get your special invite code for OpenAI’s Sora 2 app and explore its AI video featuresOpenAI has introduced Sora, a new app for creating AI-generated videos. Users require an invite code to access this platform. Sora allows f...
- Meet the man who started by eating glass, metal, and then ate a whole airplane. Here’s what doctors discoveredMichel Lotito, famously known as "Monsieur Mangetout," was a French entertainer with a rare condition called pica, which gave him the abili...
- June warmest on record; every month since July 2023 breached 1.5°C thresholdAt the 2015 UN climate talks in Paris, world leaders committed to limiting the global average temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above...
- Want to experience what it's like living on Mars? NASA is hiringNASA is looking for people to spend a year pretending they are isolated on Mars.
- Love in the time of homininsMore so as some scientists feel the hybrid teenager may not have been an oddity but representative of a hominid population with equal Neand...
- When leg-pulling wins hands downNo wonder there was shock when a magazine recently featured a photograph showing Oprah Winfrey with three hands, and Reese Witherspoon with...
- Australian researchers ask stargazers to help find 'Planet 9'Canberra, March 27 (IANS) The Australian National University (ANU) has called on amateur astronomers to help its researchers find a new pla...
- Zebras, giraffes, impalas and other evolutionary conundrums (Book Review)Title: How the Zebra Got its Stripes And Other Darwinian Just So Stories; Author: Leo Grasset (translated by Barbara Mellor); Publisher: Pr...
- Curbing a weird foreign fascination for architectural xenocentrismThe sudden diktat by Chinese authorities to builders to desist from erecting "oversized, xenocentric and weird" structures is a startling s...
- How David Bowie's performance-music taught us to celebrate odditiesAs a performer with great earthly powers, David Bowie was an alien: familiar, but different; recognisable, yet unpeggable; pop star, but pe...
- Difference between humans and machines boils down to slangsSlang's ability to change several times within even a single generation, bespeaks a remarkable adaptability and versatility that defies and...
- Life, according to Jose SaramagoJose Saramago excoriated the greed-and-grease worshippers in all his narratives, fictional and non-fictional.
- Harmonising one's faith with scienceFrancisco J Ayala, a geneticist who trained as a Dominican priest, has won this year's $1.5 million Templeton Award for making “exceptional...
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