Bizarre

Woolly mammoths had sex on the brain. Analysis of 30,000-year-old tusks from the extinct beasts have revealed that the mammoths experienced an enormous surge in testosterone during the mating season. Scientists have ...

A new drug can reduce symptoms of Alzheimer's disease by 35 per cent. Results of a study - released in preliminary form by drug maker Eli Lilly - shows that the ...

Gardening could reduce the risk of breast cancer. A new study of more than 48,000 women in Britain has revealed that light physical activity, such as walking and housework, is linked ...

Artificial intelligence is capable of creating a new religion. The historian Yuval Noah Harari - known for his best-selling book 'Sapiens' - is convinced that software such as ChatGPT could attract ...

Men like meat because it makes them feel masculine. A new study has found that chaps who enjoy eating meat view themselves as more traditionally masculine and consider it to be ...

Ukraine planned an audacious attack on Moscow to mark the first anniversary of Russia's invasion. The attack was ultimately called off after an intervention from the United States that warned Kyiv ...

Dmitry Medvedev has warned that humanity stands on the brink of nuclear oblivion. The former Russian president is a close ally of Vladimir Putin and made the chilling threat about the ...

A couple discovered well-preserved McDonald's fries inside their bathroom wall. Grace and Rob Jones recently decided to remodel their kitchen and bathroom at their 63-year-old home in Illinois but were stunned ...

Oral sex is causing an "epidemic" of throat cancers in the US and UK. Dr. Hisham Mehanna, from the University of Birmingham, says that 70 per cent of throat cancer cases ...

Xi Jinping has told Volodymyr Zelensky that China has "always stood on the side of peace". The two leaders spoke on the phone for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine ...

A dead 'goblin' has been discovered buried in a disused warehouse in Mexico. The foetus was found during construction work in Santa Maria Regla, northeast of Mexico City. The goblin has a ...

Scientists could have worked out how to increase lifespans by 80 per cent. Experts from the University of California San Diego have, for the first time, shown that it is possible ...

Superstitious motorists have been urged to “charm, enchant and energise” before embarking on a journey due to Mercury being in retrograde. With 43% of Gen Z and Millennials admitting they feel ...

Sir David Attenborough has been named as the top choice to represent Earth in contact with aliens. The legendary wildlife expert and broadcaster topped a study of 2,000 British adults to ...

Mind-reading technology is able to transcribe people's thoughts. A new study put three people in MRI machines and got them to listen to stories and experts were able to produce a ...

Russia could collapse into warring mini-states as a result of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. Former CIA analyst Paul Goble thinks that Moscow has been fatally weakened by the despot's antics ...

Humans could soon be infected by dog flu. Scientists fear that a deadly dog influenza virus has shown signs that it could leap to pet owners with potentially lethal consequences. Canines were ...

Aliens are likely to be artificial intelligence. Experts doubt that any biological creature will live long enough to travel the vast distance across the universe to reach Earth, meaning that extraterrestrials ...

A good sports bra can help women run faster. Research suggests that the right bra could knock 15 minutes off a marathon time of about four hours and more than 30 ...

Russia is using cryptocurrencies to bypass sanctions from the Ukraine war. Britain, the EU and the US have all imposed economic sanctions against Russia following the invasion of Ukraine last year ...

Space tourists could be hit with a sex ban. Scientists are fearful of what could happen to a baby conceived in orbit due to microgravity and increased radiation. NASA says that "no ...

Eating chips can make people depressed. A new study has analysed more than 140,000 people in the UK, who filled out a questionnaire on what they had eaten in the previous ...

The Kremlin has denied that Vladimir Putin uses body doubles. The tyrant's mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov has rubbished speculation that Putin is in poor health and spends his days hiding in nuclear ...

India has overtaken China to become the world's most populous nation. According to United Nations population estimates, India now has a population of 1,425,775,850 and has surpassed China for the first ...