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Study Confirms Sheep Do Recognize Human Faces
Sheep are awesome (and sometimes funny) intelligent, emotional, social animals that CAN recognize faces of other sheep and now it seems a study confirms they can recognize human faces too. The way these intelligent creatures are treated and horribly kept and killed for food must be changed. Doe the label of ‘dumb animal’ make it easy to justify the horrific … Continue reading
Breakout of Marburg Virus in Uganda
Three people in Uganda and Kenya have died from an extremely rare and deadly disease caused by the Marburg virus, the World Health Organization reported today (Nov. 7). The Marburg virus is related to another notorious virus, the Ebola virus, according to WHO. Both viruses are members of the “filovirus” family and have high fatality rates. The fatality rate for … Continue reading
Cave Paintings from Lost Civilization Depicts Human-Animal Hybrids
A team of archaeologists has discovered a vast array of pre-European conquest artwork from a lost civilization in a series of tiny caves on an uninhabited island in the Caribbean. Some of the artwork was already known to archaeologists but had been misidentified as far more recent than it actually was. The Taíno people, a forgotten civilization that were wiped … Continue reading
You May Be More Closely Related to ‘Neanderthal’ Than You Thought
A female Neanderthal who lived in what is now Croatia 52,000 years ago is revealing that our “caveman” relatives may have passed on genes that play roles in cholesterol levels, eating disorders, arthritis and other diseases today, the researchers who sequenced her genome say. And some modern humans are carrying around more Neanderthal DNA than scientists had thought: The study … Continue reading
Sucked into a “Facebook Hole” – Perception of Time is Altered When We’re Online
So TRUE! via Daily Mail: If you’ve ever popped on to Facebook for a quick look, and then realised you’ve been there for an hour, don’t worry – scientists say it’s not your fault. Researchers have revealed that when we go online, we really do lose track of time. They say Facebook is the worst offender, and that users suffer … Continue reading
NASA Has 4 Possible Plan of Actions to Save Us from Earth-Bound Asteroids
Hollywood movies have long dramatised the threat of Earth being wiped out in by an asteroid discovered at the 11th hour, only for disaster to be averted by all-American heroes such as Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck or a gristly Robert Duvall. As NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office uses the asteroid “2012 TC4” to test its ability to respond to the … Continue reading
Scientist Say the Universe Should Not Exist Based on the Bizarre Behaviour of Anti-Matter
We don’t know why the universe isn’t destroying itself Our universe shouldn’t exist, scientists say. The most elite scientists in the world are still struggling to find why exactly our universe didn’t destroy itself as soon as it came into existence. That’s what science says should have happened – but it clearly hasn’t, since you’re here reading this, as far … Continue reading
Asteroid that Wiped Out Dinosaurs Contains Cancer Killing Metal, According to Research
Cancer cells can be destroyed using the same metal from the asteroid believed to have caused the dinosaurs’ extinction. Research by the University of Warwick in the UK and Sun Yat-Sen University in China found the dense metal, iridium, can be used to kill cancer cells by directly targeting them and filling them with a deadly ‘version’ of oxygen. A … Continue reading
New Life Form Found in Caverns of the Grand Canyon
Tens of thousand of people walk through the Grand Canyon caverns every year, but very few come here, past where the general public is allowed, and it’s an area that may hold a brand new life form. These tight passageways were formed millions of years ago and were never seen by human eyes until a group of underground explores dug … Continue reading
Research Suggest Animals are Capable of Rational Thinking
Previous research has shown that animals can remember specific events, use tools and solve problems. But exactly what that means – whether they are making rational decisions or simply reacting to their environment through mindless reflex – remains a matter of scientific dispute. Cameron Buckner, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston, argues in an article published in … Continue reading
