Meteorologist captures stunning image of ‘ice volcanoes’ erupting on the shore of Lake Michigan where freezing waves are sent shooting into the air Meteorologist spotted ice volcanoes on Sunday at Oval Beach in Saugatuck, Michigan – near Lake Michigan The cone-shaped mounds of ice form in cold temperatures and with high surfs of at least three … Read more
Incredible video from the Crown Prince of Dubai shows a pilot flying an Iron Man-like jet pack ‘5,000ft above the ground at 150mph’ Video shows a jet pack wearer soaring nearly 6,000 feet over the Dubai skyline The jetpack can reach speeds of 253mph and is controlled by a ground operator Developers Jetman Dubai want autonomous … Read more
Eco-friendly ‘compost burials’ where human bodies reach 131 degrees Fahrenheit and rot away in just 30 days, are due to launch next year in America after a successful pilot. A trial of the process, which saw six dead bodies decompose among wood chips and other material, found that the remains made ‘great worm food’. It … Read more
Everyday objects that seem perfectly safe, can sadly become hazardous when found accidentally by animals. By disposing our rubbish safely instead of littering we are making choices that could save many lives. Protecting animals from harmful rubbish is easy. Dispose of your rubbish responsibly by recycling, reusing or simply putting it in the bin! Plastic … Read more
They are not just cute and stripy, but devastatingly efficient when it comes to locating the best pollen-rich flowers. As a result, the humble bee is at the centre of a £4.8 million project to create drones and driverless cars. In a unusual experiment, scientists painstakingly stuck tiny radar transponders to hundreds of bumblebees and honey … Read more
NEVER trust a person’s face: Scientists say it is ‘completely baloney’ that you can read people’s emotions from their expressions Scientists analysed muscle movement in the face connected to specific feelings They found attempts to detect emotions based on these were usually wrong Research carried out by Prof Aleix Martinez at Ohio State University, US … Read more
Tens of thousands of files belonging to US inmates were leaked online. Cyber security researchers discovered a bucket containing the mugshots, full names, IDs, medical records and other sensitive information of 36,077 incarcerated individuals. JailCore, a platform used to manage correctional facilities, was left unsecure and unencrypted on an Amazon server, impacting locations in Florida, … Read more
Officials from Colorado Parks and Wildlife have confirmed the presence of wolves in the state after analyzing scat samples found near an elk carcass in January. The samples were collected from an area called Irish Canyon in the northwestern corner of the state, near the borders of Wyoming and Utah. Park officials discovered the elk … Read more
Researchers build a working dictionary of 1,500 dance moves that bees use to communicate with each other while flying in formation Scientists in Minnesota studied two bee colonies in reconstructed prairieland They found the bees used a complex system of dance ‘waggles’ to communicate The bees communicated about pollen location, direction, distance and more By … Read more
Purging your Instagram just got a lot easier with new filters that let you see which accounts you’ve interacted with the least Instagram now lets users filter followers by ‘least interacted with’ The filter also shows ‘most shown in feed’ and orders first or last followed It’s made to help users manage their accounts and … Read more