Biological Species Stick insect spontaneously evolves to become female-only speciesmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill A species of stick insects found in Britain have stopped having sex with their male counterparts and become a female-only population. The insects – …
Black Holes Planets like Earth could survive brutal supermassive black hole encounters, scientists predictmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill If a black hole suddenly appeared on the horizon, you’d expect it to scoff Planet Earth and then snack on the rest of the solar system for afters. But …
Jupiter Nasa confirms mission to search for alien life on Jupiter’s frozen moon Europametro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Nasa has announced plans to search for traces of alien life on a frozen moon of Jupiter. Europa is a freezing mini-world that’s a bit smaller than …
Elon Musk Elon Musk and loads of his Twitter followers have been laughing about Uranusmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Elon Musk spends more than 90 hours every week slaving away to save the world from petrol cars and launch humanity on a journey into the stars. So you …
Galaxies Mysterious radio signals from deep space picked up by astronomersmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons A fresh set of mysterious signals have emerged from the depths of the galaxy and been picked up by astronomers here on Earth. Eight small blasts of …
Apple Watch Huge leak suggests iPhone 11 release date is just a few weeks awaymetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons Apple is expected to launch three new iPhones later this year and the smart money suggests it’ll be in the second week of September. Eagle-eyed Apple …
Black Holes Monster ‘Pac-Man’ black hole caught feasting on the corpse of a dead starmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Astronomers have detected a black hole eating the carcass of a dead star for the first time. The beast is believed to have been scoffing a neutron …
Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope captures ‘blobby jellyfish’ star in deep spacemetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons The Hubble Space Telescope has captured another memorable image to add to its vast collection. The space-based observatory has spotted a ‘Jellyfish’ …
NASA Nasa preparing for arrival of ‘God of Chaos’ asteroid Apophismetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill A monster asteroid named after an Egyptian God of Chaos is due to travel so close to Earth that billions of people will be able to see it with the …
NASA Nasa scientist fires back epic response to sexist dating app commentmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons A planetary scientist who spent time at Nasa has become an internet sensation for sharing her epic comeback to a sexist comment she received on a …
Tesla Roadster Elon Musk’s spacefaring Tesla Roadster completes first orbit around the sunmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill David Bowie would probably have been delighted to hear that there is now literally a Starman waiting in the sky – and he’s definitely blown our minds. …
Comets A comet crashed into the sun and one ‘prophet’ thinks Nibiru is to blamemetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Last week astronomers watched in awe as a comet smashed into the sun. But explaining this collision using the simple laws of physics didn’t satisfy …
Brain Implant Cure for obesity could be a brain implant zapping people when they think about foodmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons A brain implant that detects electrical activity related to food and issues a small electric shock has been identified as a potential cure for the …
Asteroids Earth has ‘no defence’ against apocalypse asteroids, Elon Musk warnsmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Elon Musk has warned that Earth has ‘no defence’ against gigantic asteroids. The billionaire issued this chilling assessment of our planetary defence …
Facebook Facebook is opening five cafes which will offer free ‘privacy checks’metro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Facebook is about to open cafes around London and the UK designed to promote ‘privacy’. Anyone who visits Zuck’s coffee bars will be given a free …
Giraffes Giraffes are facing ‘silent extinction’ and humanity should be ashamed of itselfmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Conservationists are preparing to launch an urgent bid to save giraffes from extinction. This weekend, representatives of nations from around the …
Elon Musk Elon Musk is still keen to ‘nuke Mars’ and he probably can’t be stoppedmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Gentrification generally involves the slow replacement of local people by an influx of newbies drawn to a formerly grubby area by nice new artisan …
iPhone Apple is weeks away from revealing moderately-anticipated iPhone 11metro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill In the good old days, the arrival of a new iPhone was greeted with the sort of enthusiasm generally reserved for the second coming. But sadly for …
Headphones Hackers could turn your gadgets into deafening ‘acoustic cyber weapons’metro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Gadgets like headphones and smart speakers can be turned into ‘acoustic cyber weapons’ and used to inflict physical or psychological pain on innocent …
Gmail Gmail users: beware this ‘sextortion’ porn scam doing the roundsmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons If you’re a regular Gmail user then you may want to watch out for a scam currently being circulated around by email. Dubbed a ‘sextortion’ email scam, …
Black Holes Supermassive black holes can form and grow to a monstrous size very quickly, astrophysicist confirmsmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill If a black hole suddenly appeared on the horizon it would probably eat Earth and swallow the rest of the solar system for dessert. So you might be …
Jupiter Jupiter smashed into a planet resembling Uranus and everything got very messy, scientists claimmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill It’s generally a good idea to steer clear of Uranus, which is a place of smelly methane winds and temperatures so cold they’d freeze your extremities …
‘Biofluorescence’ could expose hidden alien life on exoplanets say astronomersmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons Astronomers have an intriguing new plan for hunting alien life in the vast cosmos of outer space. Essentially, it’s borrowing a trick from marine …
Tesla Model 3 Hardcore Tesla owner implants car key directly into her armmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons A Tesla Model 3 owner has taken the dramatic step of implanting her car key directly into her arm. Software engineer and YouTuber Amie DD took the …
Space Tourism Futuristic luggage bag is ready for space tourism to become realitymetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons When the likes of SpaceX and Virgin Galactic finally get their acts together and make space tourism a real thing we’ll now have a luggage bag for the …
Twitter Twitter just crushed our hopes and dreams for one key featuremetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons Twitter has gone through numerous changes and refreshes over the years – some good, some not-so-good. But through it all, the hopes of the social …
FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoBlack Holes Nasa reveals four supermassive myths about black holesmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Black holes are among the most terrifying objects in the universe – but also the most confusing. Which is not surprising, considering that it’s highly …
Earth Awe-inspiring story of apocalyptic ancient ‘cataclysm’ which melted Earth’s surface revealedmetro.co.uk - Jasper Hamill Earth has been hit by some truly epic disasters which threatened to derail the evolution of life. Now scientists have revealed new details of how this …
Snapchat Snapchat launches a new pair of Spectacles – with a hefty price tagmetro.co.uk - Jeff Parsons Snapchat has unveiled the third generation of its camera-enabled Spectacles, which allow users to capture images and video to post to the social …
