Liquid wire stretches and contracts like silk in the web of a spider
The sticky coating that exists in a spider’s web has amazing properties capable of creating a liquid wire that can be stretched several times...
UFO in 17th century painting in old church in Romania amazes visitors
A UFO painted on the wall of a 17th century church in Romania is amazing visitors. We mostly think of unidentified flying objects as...
Pollution from farms is huge but news not all bad says new study
Pollution from farms is huge, a new study says – emissions from agriculture outweigh all other human sources of fine-particulate air pollution in most...
1bn people and 158 trillion dollars of assets at risk due to climate change...
More than 1bn people and 158 trillion dollars of assets globally are at risk from disaster caused by climate change, says the World Bank,...
NASA plans cryosleep for long space missions
NASA is looking into cryosleep for astronauts on long missions, using helicopters on Mars, and farming on the other planets, so that settlers can...
Extremely rare bowhead whale seen off Cornish coast in shallow waters
Sightings of bowhead whales are extremely rare in British waters. One individual was spotted off the Cornish coast on Sunday swimming in shallow waters...
Scary beach monster at Port Talbot has experts at a loss
A scary beach monster at Port Talbot in south Wales, UK, has experts at a loss – nobody is certain what the remains of...
Microscopic organisms Pelagibacterales may solve our global warming problem
A microscopic group of ocean organisms - Pelagibacterales - may solve our global warming problem, a team of scientists has suggested. These organisms, and...
Coastal flooding to affect over 1 billion people due to climate change
Coastal flooding could devastate the lives of one billion people globally by 2060 because of human-induced climate change, a new Christian Aid report has...
Stunning coral reef image off Bahamas posted by Tim Kopra on ISS
A stunning image of the coral reef off the islands of The Bahamas has been posted online by NASA astronaut Colonel Tim Kopra, who...