March 18, 2019

Scientists identify the location of ‘taste’ in your head, and it’s not the tongue

How exactly do our brains sort between the five taste groups: sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami? We’ve now got

These 5 horrifyingly weird animal butts are the distraction we all need right now

The recent discovery of a comb jellyfish with a disappearing butt had us wondering: what other types of weird animal

An Antarctic ice shelf is being shaken by thousands of ‘ice quakes’, but only at night

As the frozen Antarctic landscape at the bottom of the world adjusts to an ever hotter planet, we keep finding

This guy spent an entire week in a VR headset. Here’s how it went down

Jak Wilmot, the co-founder of Atlanta-based VR content studioDisrupt VR, spent 168 consecutive hours in a VR headset – that’s

Turns out Mercury might actually be Earth’s closest neighbouring planet

We often think of Venus as our closest Solar System sibling. It’s the most similar to Earth in size, mass

This Nile shipwreck is first evidence that Herodotus wasn’t lying about Egyptian boats

A sunken ship found in the Nile river may have lain undisturbed for over 2,500 years, but now it is

The 12 signs that show we’re in the middle of a 6th mass extinction

The phrase “mass extinction” typically conjures images of the asteroid crash that led to the twilight of the dinosaurs. Upon

There’s something about space that’s triggering herpes in astronauts

Tests show that dormant herpes viruses reactivate in more than half the astronauts who travel on the Space Shuttle and

A star has been kicked out of the Milky Way. It knows what it did

Every once in a while, the Milky Way ejects a star. The evicted star is typically ejected from the chaotic