A Japanese aquarium is asking peoples to make video calls to eels - so the creatures remember that humans exist.
The Sumida Aquarium in Tokyo has been shut since March because ...
Criminal gangs are using fast food deliveries to supply drugs to people in lockdown.
Interpol have revealed that substances such as ecstasy and marijuana have been put in takeaway containers across ...
In the long list of things we've been missing during lockdown, nature clocks in second, just behind other members of our species. For city-dwellers even the urban jungle remains remote, ...
There’s a something about B&Bs that goes beyond the titular bed and breakfast. Maybe it’s the tendency to be family-run, the penchant for charming country cottages, or the gloriously greedy ...
Being watched while we eat, or watching someone else work through their dinner, is something most of us would feel pretty uncomfortable about. Why inspect someone trying to fit a ...
Every December celebrities and artists flock to Miami Beach in the US for the beachside instalment of Art Basel. This is the younger cousin to the original June version in ...
We've heard of al fresco dining, but it took a global pandemic for us to consider eating alone in the middle of a field. Surely one of the only all-new ...
We don’t know what it is about fluffy drinks at the moment, but for many seeking comfort in quarantine whipped beverages seem to be the order of the day. First ...
Ancient, mysterious, and extraordinarily weird – these are the creatures widely known as “living fossils”. Though coined by Charles Darwin himself, the moniker is slightly misleading, as all species undergo ...
As we reach the end of the year, it’s a good time to look back at some of the strangest things we’ve been scoffing… Pickle ice cream sounds like the ...
The world’s wildlife has undergone any number of changes in its never ending quest for survival, and some species have developed skills and strategies that have to be seen to ...
A new study claims screen time for babies could lead to developmental delays later in childhood.
Researchers from Drexel University's College of Medicine and Dornsife School of Public Health have found ...
A woman is considering dumping her boyfriend after he called her a ''dirty little tomato'' in the bedroom.
The unnamed woman took to Reddit to seek advice on whether she should ...
A student was stunned after realising her teacher could read her Zoom messages.
The girl - known as Faith - posted on Twitter to warn other students that their professors were ...
A man started charging his girlfriend $24 a night to stay over at his house.
The man admitted his partner - who has her own place but has been staying with ...
Ever since the industrial revolution brought machines into factories, people have been using technology to aid and advance their lives. From mass manufacturing developments that made helpful appliances like dishwashers ...
The Australian government has released a coronavirus contact-tracing app.
The COVIDSafe smartphone app - which uses a Bluetooth wireless signal to generate a so-called digital handshake with nearby users - has ...
We’ve had plant-based burgers and plant-based bacon – now we’ve got a plant-based David Attenborough series. Likely to air in 2021, Green Planet will document the hidden lives of the ...
Consider the standard gas-guzzling passenger jet. Now move the wings back into the tail, bend them into near right angles, and sharpen the plane’s nose into a tip. What you’re ...
The Museum of Hangovers – set up, inevitably, by students – is an homage to pounding headaches, alcoholic antics and patchy memories, and is filled with objects acquired during various ...
Consider the neck of the giraffe, the fact a cow has four stomachs, and the genus-bending strangeness of the platypus. So far so standard, but when you delve into the ...
You certainly won’t find him in the Bible (indeed, Leviticus 11:6 declares hares to be unclean), and he’s never neared the icon status of Santa Claus, or even B-tier characters ...
While dogs are fairly up front about things – when they look like they’re happy to see you, they actually are – cats can be a lot more mysterious, and ...
A debt acquired from games of rock, paper, scissors has been ruled as invalid.
Edmund Mark Hooper owed $517,000 after losing a best-of-three game to Michel Primeau back in January 2011, ...
