Existential angst? Apparently a lot of us empathize.
- Birds hold ‘funerals’ for dead.
- Black bears can count as well as primates.
- Venus the two-faced cat a mystery: Famous feline may have different DNA on each side of her body.
- 10,000 people turn out for an online meme made flesh (and fur).
- Oz big cat mystery deepens as zoo keeper claims a new panther sighting in Victoria. Victorian Government’s hunt for big cats begins.
- Have three little photons broken theoretical physics?
- Infrared telescope spots millions of supermassive black holes, along with the most luminous galaxies we’ve ever detected, including a new class of what are called hot DOGs.
- Gravity-monitoring can track underground movements of volcanic magma.
- Spore-launching fungi help create Amazon clouds and rain.
- Hong Kong supervolcano linked to dinosaur extinction?
- Ice Age find in Mexico may include a human tooth.
- Puppet experiment suggests humans are born to be fair. Problem is, some humans ain’t human.
- Study reveals sneaky way to get what you ask for.
- The Jet Propulsion Lab is a wacky place – with robotic deer.
- 4K TVs, coming later this year, will have four times the resolution of current HDTV sets — for about the price of a new car.
- 16 Kickstarter projects that could destroy civilization.
- 7 deadly weapons you should never ever make out of harmless household items.
- Genomic debuggers: We may soon be able to build proteins designed to bind to faulty RNA, fixing mutations.
- Soil microbes are swapping antibiotic-resistance genes with other, more dangerous bacteria — the ones that cause devastating infections in humans.
- Whooping cough epidemic worsens in the UK, the US, and Australia.
- Enzyme-treated coconut oil stops the growth of bacteria behind tooth decay.
- Burning Man is out of this world!
- World’s deadliest snake turns up in… Essex.
- UFO ‘Secrets’ to be revealed on September 22, says National Atomic Testing Museum.
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