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Over the last week, a new Internet meme has taken off. Someone on Facebook thought (correctly) that it would be a funny idea to create an event inviting everyone to gather together on one day and storm Area 51. Unless you have been living in an underground military facility for the past 70 years, you […]

A video that appears to show a member of the Awá people, an uncontacted tribe living deep in the Amazon, reveals just how far deforestation permeates the rainforest, and the people under threat from it. Learn more: Footage Of Uncontacted Tribe In Amazon Released

FaceApp and the #faceappchallenge have taken over social media feeds once again, for some inexplicable reason, but this time around punters are having concerns over the true intentions of the app. Is Putin looking at your holiday photos again? Discover more: FaceApp

July 20, 2019, is the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing when American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person ever to plant boots on the dusty lunar surface. Buzz Aldrin followed about 20 minutes later. Most people assume that NASA always planned for Armstrong to be the first person to step out […]

33 years on, it is a different story. The abandoned city of Chernobyl has become a holiday destination, enticing travelers and Instagrammers with its eerie beauty, tragic history, and photo-op potential. Two hotels, though Soviet in their simplicity, offer visitors a comfortable stay, while the Ukrainian government has announced plans to turn it into an […]

There are few scarier ways to die than being trapped on a sinking submarine, but 52 members of the French navy suffered that exact fate when their vessel, La Minerve, suddenly sank on January 17, 1968. More than five decades after the tragedy, the sub has finally been located near the port of Toulon on […]

How big is ‘Big’? In the film, the San Andreas fault produces an earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0. While not unheard of globally, earthquakes of this size are generally confined to regions of the earth where subduction – where one tectonic plate is being forced below another – is happening, for example in Chile […]

Was the spread of Lyme disease the result of a military experiment gone wrong? It might sound like a batshit conspiracy theory, but this question is now the subject of an investigation issued by the US House of Representatives. Learn more: Did The US Military Release Weaponized Ticks?