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Missing Cat. Clive, a Norwegian Forest cat, disappeared from his home in December 2014 and left his owners Tanya and Jonathan Irons devastated. The couple launched an appeal on Facebook and put up posters around ...

Voodoo. In A.D. 64, a great fire broke out in Rome for six days, and devastated much of the city. According to the writer Tacitus, “Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures ...

Telepathic dogmen (werewolves) stalk man in Pennsylvania. For sure, Pennsylvania is known for the weird and strange, but this latest eye-witness report serves up a tale with a different flavor. This time one of our favorite werewolves, ...

Single guy recreates his twin sister’s baby photos using a cat. Gordy Yates never got anything for his twin sister for their birthday, but on their 28th, he decided to do something special – he ...

Magical world of snails. Vadim Trunov, a self-taught nature photographer based in Voronezh, Russia, takes beautiful macro photos of snails, insects and mushrooms that seem to personify them and weave beautiful little stories around these ...

In life we get what we ask for. Now you surely say that it isn’t true. You say you ask for freedom and happiness and all you got was feeling imprisoned and bad. Let’s have ...

Self love and relationships have changed greatly over time. It's not that true love is impossible, but quick dates, late nights and a lack of boundaries makes it less likely that an individual will find ...

Do words get removed from a dictionary if they are not used? The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary [OED] is generally regarded as the single most comprehensive record of the English language to exist. Included in ...

Looking for a real challenge in your life? Try Pure Hell, a maddening puzzle made up of extra tiny pieces that are all the same solid color, created by the sadistic minds at Beverly Japan. Pure ...

Denmark Strait Cataract. What's the largest waterfall in the world? If you're talking by flow rate, it's Inga Falls. If you mean the tallest, it's Angel Falls. The widest? Khone Falls. But if you want ...

Flowers drenched in golden honey.  Brian Owens, based in Connecticut, creates large-scale oil pastel drawings of flowers. However, these aren’t your ordinary still-lifes. The series stimulates the viewer’s senses by depicting each hyperreal rose, lily, and peony drenched ...

Was the Roswell event something else? Two key people were on hand to recover the debris from the Roswell saucer crash site: the base intelligence officer and a member of the Counter Intelligence Corps. Recovery ...

Don’t you just hate it when you’re looking forward to some quality relaxation time and you found out that someone stole your comfortable bed? Well, Pixel the French bulldog puppy certainly does. The 10-week-old French bulldog ...

For more than several years now, Keyes has painted realistically-rendered portraits of animals, like something you’d see in a text book. Keyes is best known for his subject matter, and it’s not a surprise that he’s ...

In these alluring drawings, American illustrator Jennifer Healy, uses colored pencils to blur the lines between fantasy and realism. Her technically stunning approach blends delicate lines into gorgeously detailed feminine portraits that have a dreamlike ...

Whole brain emulation (WBE), mind upload or brain upload (sometimes called "mind copying" or "mind transfer") is the hypothetical futuristic process of scanning the mental state (including long-term memory and "self") of a particular brain ...

Almost all of us are drowning in words. It’s no wonder that speed reading — which means to read at an increased speed with no loss of comprehension — is an increasingly popular recourse for ...

Back in May, Shawn Davis - living in Illinois, USA - noticed the unusual sight of a pair of young foxes near his patio. “We first noticed 2 kits had visited one morning in the ...

Although being scared may possibly not be a pleasant sensation, the capability to sense fear is clearly fairly essential, making certain that creatures respond accordingly to harmful circumstances. An interesting insight is provided by focusing on how ...

On the most southernmost tip on New Zealand’s South Island is a place called Slope Point. It hosts some of the strangest-looking trees in the world. They are shaped by the relentless winds that constantly ...

For the past 30 years, researchers have known that the Milky Way—our home galaxy—is moving at a relative speed. Until recently, they didn’t know why. They could only surmise that we were being pushed across ...

The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is claimed to be ...

The world is pretty awesome. Even in our modern age, it's full of hidden secrets like entire underground cities, and it's also full of some seriously desolate, brutal terrain that we haven't tamed yet. And ...

This young Frenchwoman was only 17 when she changed the destiny of the Kingdom of France. She campaigned for her country against the English without a thought for her safety and became the first female ...

When you have a bruise, it seems to take forever to go away — especially as you watch it progress through a rainbow of red, blue, purple, black, green and yellow shades ...

Whether you have insomnia, or struggle to fall asleep, you already know that it is a miserable way to live. Why else would there be so many people looking for how to fall asleep? What ...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a brain disorder that affects how you pay attention, sit still, and control your behavior. It happens in children and teens and can continue into adulthood. ADHD can't be ...

Future space missions, that aim to reach Mars and beyond, will have to overcome many challenges before it can be achieved – and nanomaterials will play a critical role. From bio-nano robot-laced spacesuits to radiation ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a mental health disorder that can cause above-normal levels of hyperactive and impulsive behaviors. People with ADHD may also have trouble focusing their attention on a single task or ...

There are strange and amazing creatures living in our world, and some of the most intriguing of these animals are the ones that are transparent. There are many types of species that have see-through bodies ...

Surreal illustrations. Moscow-based Russian illustrator Andrew Ferez, aka 25kartinok, creates surreal scenes, each with their own fantastical narratives, that seamlessly merge various opposing elements. Digitally drawing his elaborate renderings, Ferez’s work has a dark, fantasy-driven ...

Religious Cults. Religion has been one of the great guiding forces in human history, along with geography, economics, and the desire to impress the opposite sex. Some faiths spread across the world and change the ...

Dangerous female gangsters. When asked to describe a gang leader, many people will whip up ideas of nasty-looking men in suits, covered with notorious tattoos from whom you stay away as far as possible. That's ...

Good posture is important throughout our daily lives: it matters how we sit, how we walk and so on. Though you’re unconscious, your posture at night while you sleep is also important, as how you ...

The age old question over one of life’s ultimate conundrums: with so many stars and potentially habitable planets out there, where are all the aliens? This is known as the Fermi Paradox. Design collective Kurz ...

Adorable cat. Alessandra from Liguria, a beautiful region in Italy, has dedicated her Instagram to her pet cat and it was a very wise choice. Grisu, the adorable Kurilian Bobtail, is such a photogenic kitty, ...

Earth's magnetic field preserved the planet's habitability at two key points in its history, scientists have said. By developing a strong shield around the planet early after it formed, the magnetic field may have helped ...

These days, monsters feel as American as apple pie. They star in our movies, and turn our Six Flags theme parks into Fright Nights. Tom Cruise fights them, and Kristen Stewart gets freaky with them ...

Alien abduction claims have become a godsend for science fiction writers, bored reporters, and stand-up comedians since the early 1950s. First-hand accounts of alien abductions number in the thousands, and it would seem that a ...

Deep space exploration could lead to the emergence of a new breed of genetically- or robotically-modified humans, a top astronomer has predicted. U.K. Astronomer Royal Martin Rees said that in future, some people may decide ...

EARTH VERSUS MARS. Earth is basically perfect for human beings. The distance from the sun is right, the oxygen in the air is right and the atmosphere — containing necessary greenhouse gases and protecting us ...

GREEN TECHNOLOGY. As global warming and climate change continue to serve as threats to humanity, increasing numbers of people want to see green technology used more heavily in global trade. Those involved in an industry ...

The Man Sigmund Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. He was a physiologist, medical doctor, psychologist and influential thinker of the early twentieth century. He initially worked in close collaboration with Joseph Breuer. Freud formed ...

Self esteem and confidence. Whenever one is beset by a situation that he or she is unsure of – facing someone admired, having to perform in front of an audience or simply talking to others ...

They say that “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” But if you take her love away, it gets a helluva lot worse – something the Germans would find out the hard way. Mariya ...

You’ll never know what’s in store for you when you hear the true story of The Greenbrier Ghost. It is a remarkable case in which the victim’s spirit testified about its own violent death, and ...

Space is big and dark, and since there is no air, no one can hear you scream as you float away forever and ever and ever. But those are only the human-sized terrors that space ...

Nobody wants to be in prison — if they do, then the prison's doing it wrong. Plenty of prisoners have dreamed of escaping and living out their lives in freedom, but rarely do they get ...

Despite the popularity of Einstein's theories of relativity and his musings on black holes, Einstein's Nobel Prize in physics was actually awarded for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. This discovery revolutionized our understanding of ...

Stark warnings. The last few years have seen Artificial Intelligence and robotics finally start to catch up with their science fiction counterparts. Advances in "deep learning" - in which large neural networks are modeled after ...

The jinxed ship called the USS William D. Porter (DD-579). During WWII, the Allies had a ship so jinxed it destroyed itself by nearly destroying something else. The USS William D. Porter (DD-579) was named in ...

These happy animals will make your smile! The animals that look like they’re smiling are bound to warm even the stone-cold jaded hearts among us. However, the scientific jury is still out on whether or ...

Elaborate book covers have been Aniko Kolesnikova’s passion since 2009. The Latvian designer-artist, working under the name Mandarin Duck, specializes in creating dragon-, animal-, bird-, fantasy-, and nature-inspired polymer journals. She occasionally takes custom orders, too ...

The South Korean Beauty by Jaewoon U. He is a landscape photographer based in Seoul with a great eye for finding stunning landscapes reflected in mirror-like lakes and rivers. The reflections in his photos make ...

Explaining that consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an extraordinarily complex organ, consisting of almost 100 ...

Flat earth. One of the great lies told to schoolchildren is that the whole round-earth thing was first proposed by Christopher Columbus, sailing toward the edge of the Earth in hopes of encountering India. The ...

Dangerous railways. Nobody is actually really scared of trains, are they? Air travel, sure, and you wouldn't be too surprised to meet someone who gets a bit nervous crossing oceans or driving on tight roads ...

Have you ever wished for a fairy tale world to escape to? Well, if you're furiously nodding at your screen right now then you'll be glad to hear that it is in fact entirely possible to ...

Future technology. Resuscitation is one of those topics that is regularly discussed in the world of science. Resuscitation is highly unlikely at present due to the lack of the needed technology for success. However, it ...

Artificial Intelligence, defined as intelligence exhibited by machines, is on everybody's lips nowadays. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made many changes in our day to day life and has touched every industry, business, consumer and household ...