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What Killed the Megalodon? Scientists Say Great White Shark Out-Competed Fearsome Fish

It’s terrifying to think that a better hunter than the largest shark even known to exist might still be alive today, but according to...

‘Complete Shock’: Skull Estimated to be 8,000 Years Old Found in Minnesota River

The long withstanding megadrought in Nevada and much of the Western United States revealed two bodies in Lake Mead after the drought depleted its...

Is technology destroying our capacity to think clearly?

Like Robert Frost, looking out from the distant perspective of a remote rural property, we wonder about the future of our world. Writing in 1920...

Name is Balkanatolia: Scientists Discover Lost Continent That Changed Europe’s Animal Population

According to researchers, the continent is now mostly underwater at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. But during the Eocene period, an era...

How realistic is the prospect of a ‘quantum apocalypse’?

A new generation of fear entrepreneurs in the IT industry are promoting anxieties and fatalism about the threat quantum computing poses to the future...

Gene technology: does it have a history of safety?

Stuck in a parallel universe:—at our local school a doctor arrived to address the student body and the staff about Covid-19 inoculation. Reassuringly the doctor...

Patient gets animal heart in ‘breakthrough’ surgery

The patient consented to the pig heart after being rejected for a human heart transplant. An American hospital patient in the state of Maryland is...

Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo found in egg

A perfectly preserved fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up inside its egg has been rediscovered at the back of Chinese museum, having been...

The compulsion of myths—we are in extraordinary times, but of whose making?

Our modern education system, the popular digests of science, the exciting film fantasies have created a dream vision of the future that rests easy...

Watch: The TikTok Professor – How a 70-year-old goes viral on TikTok

In this video by RT Documentary, meet Nikolay Milovanov aged 70 and he’s taking TikTok by storm with fun videos about maths and physics. He...

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