Ancient Egyptians ingeniously utilized a forgotten, high-volume Nile branch, the Khufu Branch, to transport massive pyramid stones. Image credit: Chatgpt If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or history subreddits, you’ve definitely seen the wild theories on how the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Aliens, lost future civilisations, complicated sound-wave levitation- people will believe […]
Scientists at King’s College London have developed an experimental bone-healing material made from sheep wool that could one day offer a sustainable alternative to collagen in regenerative medicine. The research focused on keratin, a structural protein naturally found in wool, hair, and nails. In laboratory and animal tests, the wool-derived material successfully supported bone regeneration […]
For most people, water is harmless, even comforting. It cools the body on hot days, washes away dirt, and makes up nearly 60 percent of the human body itself. But for a tiny number of people around the world, contact with water can trigger painful, itchy hives within minutes. The condition, known as Aquagenic urticaria, […]
A quiet moment inside a digital archive search has led to something that experts are calling a major literary breakthrough. Researchers studying a medieval manuscript in Rome reportedly stumbled upon what appears to be the oldest surviving English poem. The discovery was not made during an excavation or field study, but through digitised pages viewed […]
In a discovery that feels almost unreal, scientists have revived a microscopic organism that had been frozen in Siberian permafrost for around 24,000 years. The tiny creature, often referred to in media reports as a ‘zombie worm,’ was thought to be long dead. Instead, it returned to life in a laboratory setting and showed signs […]
The Universe keeps throwing up surprises, and black holes are right at the centre of it. The biggest ones detected so far do not seem to fit the usual story of how stars die. A new study reportedly suggests that these extreme objects might not form in a single collapse at all. Instead, they could […]
Beneath the extremely dry surface of Chile’s Atacama Desert, scientists discovered a functional community of microorganisms that challenges what we thought possible for life. While the ground above remains one of Earth’s harshest environments, a ‘hidden oasis’ lies about two meters down, protected from high solar irradiance and complete dryness. This underground community mainly consists […]
More than 4,500 years after it was built, the Great Pyramid of Giza continues to puzzle scientists. Constructed during the reign of Khufu, the monument is made up of roughly 2.3 million stone blocks, some weighing several tonnes, all assembled with remarkable precision. For decades, experts have debated how ancient workers achieved this without cranes, […]
Scientists have discovered an archaea called ‘Asgard’ in the extremely high-salinity waters of Shark Bay, Australia, which contains microbes that provide a long-standing evolutionary enigma for many centuries – how did simple, single-celled bacteria develop into such complex multicellular organisms, animals, and human beings? These unique microorganisms serve as an evolutionary link; they carry with […]
The Antikythera mechanism has been described as the world’s first analogue computer since it was found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece in 1901, but until now, we have not known precisely how it was configured inside. The Anticythera mechanism – a corroded chalcographical artefact discovered at a Roman shipwreck in 1901, has […]
