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A brutal gang attack on a tiger shark by killer whales has revealed the violence of orcas in all its gruesome detail. The footage, which is believed to be a world-first, shows three killer whales working as a team to force the panicked shark to the surface. The gang wear the shark down and take […]
Look at that car go! An electric car built by students at Brigham Young University has set a new land speed record for cars in its class. “Electric Blue” averaged a mind-blowing 204.9 mph over two runs at the Bonneville Salt Flats this month, beating its own previous record from 2011 by nearly 50 mph.
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Sticking with recorded history, the answer might surprise you. It’s not elephants, which live for about 30 or 40 years. It’s not giant tortoises either, even though they often ripen to be well over 100 years old. It’s not even that record-breaking, 507-year-old Arctic clam named Ming. Nope, the longest-living animal in the world is
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If you have always found doing sums a struggle, you might just be able to blame your mother. Because research has linked a woman’s hormone levels in pregnancy with her child’s maths skills at age five. Boys and girls whose mothers were very low in the hormone thyroxine were almost twice as likely to do
If you can’t sleep at night then it might be worth changing what you have for dinner. Scientists have discovered that eating lots of rice can trigger a deep slumber, while pasta and noodles can actually hinder sleep. The Japanese researchers also found eating bread products – including white bread, pancakes and pizza – had
Teenagers who adopt a daily cannabis habit before the age of 17 are 60 per cent less likely to finish secondary school or university, compared to peers who have not used the drug, researchers claim. The study also found that regular teenage cannabis users are seven times more likely to attempt suicide and eight times
When we get angry, we all tend to make the same face — lowering our eyebrows, clenching our jaws, and flaring our nostrils. But as to why people all around the world make that same angry face, scientists really weren’t quite sure. Until now. A new study suggests that our facial expression of anger evolved
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It’s the generation that can understand exactly how you’re feeling through a few simple emoticons. But now researchers claim that children are now so engrossed in their phones, they are unable to accurately read how people are feeling in real-life. This is the result of less face-to-face time interaction, according to the study, which found
Technology may be getting smarter, but humans are getting dumber, scientists have warned. Evidence suggests that the IQs of people in the UK, Denmark and Australia have declined in the last decade. Opinion is divided as to whether the trend is long-term, but some researchers believe that humans have already reached intellectual peak. An IQ
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It’s dog eat dog in the wild, or in the case of this video captured by a visitor to the Samburu National Reserve in Kenya, it’s a matter of crocodile or lion eats elephant. When an elephant died at the side of a lake in the African reserve, leaving enough meat to feed a multitude
