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Nick Lavars – A compound found in the venom of the Australian funnel-web spider was found to kill off melanoma cells in the lab (Credit: pelooyen/Depositphotos). Discoveries of potentially life-saving peptides in the venom of deadly animals are, counter-intuitively, not all that …
Loz Blain – Frank Ohle’s outrageous Red Baron ready for take off at Intermot 2018, with all eyes on that nine-cylinder Rotec Radial R3600 aircraft engine (Credit: Loz Blain/New Atlas). The Intermot expo, held every year just across the Rhine from …
Michael Irving – The first steps towards brain-to-brain interfaces for collaborative problem solving are being made in the laboratory (Credit: Andreus/Depositphotos). The internet has made it easy for groups to collaborate from pretty much anywhere, but this experimental brain-to-brain “social network” could be …
By Mark Kaufman – The red-tinged Martian surface. Image: nasa/JpL Scientists don’t expect to get their hands on Martian soil anytime soon, so they’re making their own.Created by University of Central Florida astrophysicists, this red soil, called Mars “simulant,” is designed to …
Image copyright Jonkoping county museum. An eight-year-old found a pre-Viking-era sword while swimming in a lake in Sweden during the summer. Saga Vanecek found the relic in the Vidostern lake while at her family’s holiday home in Jonkoping County. The sword was …
Rich Haridy – The robot is being designed to help combat the country’s declining birthrate and potential future labor shortage (Credit: AIST). A new video from AIST, Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, shows a prototype robot designed to …
By Ashley Strickland, CNN – An Artist’s Conception of the Mysterious Planet X. (CNN) While searching for the mysterious Planet X that some astronomers believe lurks on the edge of our solar system, researchers instead found an extremely distant object they dubbed “the …
The goats are being airlifted away from Olympic National Park as a result of their weird cravings. By Ed Mazza – Mountain goats at Olympic National Park in Washington have developed such a taste for human urine and sweat that they’re starting to …
Miners in Australia discover ‘mother lode’ By Evann Gastaldo – Newser Staff – Stock photo. Not the actual gold found. (Getty Images/HDesert). With just one blast, miners in Western Australia unearthed two large quartz rocks containing gold estimated to be worth about …
Grey African parrot vanished from British owner’s home in Torrance, California in 2010 before reappearing in the same town. Rose Troup Buchanan – A grey African parrot, pictured here in México ( Getty ). A very British pet parrot named Nigel has …
