Monkey Takes Man’s GoPro And Goes On A Selfie Rampage
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As a general rule, camera equipment and small monkeys don’t mix.
Case in point: The footage shot at Wildlife World Zoo in Phoenix,...
Oldest Human DNA Ever Sequenced Could Rewrite Human Evolutionary Tree
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It now seems like the Sima de los Huesos remains were likely from Neanderthals.
Researchers have managed to...
Ice Shelf Bigger Than Manhattan Could Be About To Break From Antarctica
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Nansen Ice Shelf and the crack, taken by Landsat 8 on December 16, 2015. USGS
Antarctic scientists have documented ice shelves disintegrating from the southern continent at an unprecedente...
$1bn Bank Heist Foiled By A Rather Hilarious Mistake
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When there’s billions of dollars on the table and you’ve been snooping around the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, make sure you...
IHEU calls on UN to reinforce human rights mechanisms protecting LGBTI people and SRHR
Today at the United Nations, the International Humanist and Ethical Union’s director of advocacy, Elizabeth O’Casey, again called on the Human Rights Council to...
Oldest Known Pine Tree Fossil Discovered
Photo credit: Falcon-Lang et al. 2016
The tiny fossil, on the left, measures just half a centimeter long.
When triceratops and velociraptors stalked the forests of the...
Newly Formed Neurons Help Brain “Catalog Memories In Time”
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The human brain generates 1,400 new neurons per day, but their function had until now remained unknown.
Sometimes it can feel every day is...
Roy’s Final Speech as an IHEU Delegate
As a delegate of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) at the United Nations over a 12 year period, former Head of Delegation, Roy Brown,...
Arctic Sea Ice Sets New Record Low For This Time Of Year
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The arctic is warming much quicker than the rest of the planet.
Last year it was reported that the Arctic is warming twice as...
Gene That Allowed Life To Evolve Beyond Bacterial Slime Identified
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An ancestral gene coding for the synthesis of enzymes called kinases played a vital role in the evolution of all complex life...