10 of the strangest rare diseases you won’t believe are real
People with rare diseases often wait years to get a diagnosis, and every new diagnosis comes like a tragedy in their life. There are thousands of such rare diseases in…
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World’s first use of nanotech was in India, 2,600 years ago!
In 2015, in a nondescript village some 450km from Chennai, India were found the remains of a city that went back to the 3rd-6th century BCE. Now, in broken pieces…
Malaysian rock art found to depict elite–Indigenous conflict
In what is believed to be the first age study of Malaysian rock art, researchers found that two anthropomorphic figures of Indigenous warriors were produced amid geopolitical tensions with the ruling class and other tribes.
Bronze age artifacts used meteoric iron
Archaeologists had long been puzzled by iron tools dating thousands of years before iron smelting developed, but no, there was no precocious smelting, geochemists have concluded.
The horrors of the ‘Russian sleep experiment’
Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant.
Dactylolysis spontanea – A bizarre autoamputation disease
A medical condition called Ainhum or also known as Dactylolysis Spontanea where a person’s toe just randomly falls off in a painful experience by bilateral spontaneous autoamputation within a few…
A mysterious “wobble” is moving the poles of Mars
The red planet, along with Earth, are the only two worlds in which this strange movement has been detected, whose origin is unknown. Like a spinning top, Mars wobbles as it spins,…
Toumaï: Our earliest relative who left enigmatic questions for us around 7 million years ago!
Toumaï is the name given to the first fossil representative of the Sahelanthropus tchadensis species, whose practically complete skull was found in Chad, Central Africa, in 2001. Dated around 7…
