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A so-called 'time traveller' from 2671 has posted a series of warnings on TikTok, including aliens and 'catastrophic' tsunamis, that will apparently alter history

Humans have taken plants to space before, and successfully grown plants in space, but they have never spread their roots to the moon. A new study could change that soon.

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The earth has finally softened but winter is still a way off — and there are plenty of discount plants up for grabs

Officials shocked to find buckets, chappals, decayed bone 33 feet below the surface. More than four decades ago the area used to be granite quarry

TikTok user @radianttimetraveler claims that humans will find new planets, Earth will be hit by a meteor and bring aliens and a wormhole to other galaxies will be discovered, all by May 2023.

When the first modern humans arose in East Africa sometime between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, the world was very different compared to today. Perhaps the biggest difference was that we – meaning people of our species, Homo sapiens – were only one of several types of humans (or hominins)…

“Bodhisattva” is a key idea in Buddhism. The word is constructed from the Sanskrit root bodhi, meaning “awakening” or “enlightenment,” and sattva, meaning “being.” The core meaning of the word is “a being who is on the way to becoming enlightened.”

The Tesla chief talks to Roula Khalaf about moving to Mars, saving free speech via Twitter — and why ageing is one ‘problem’ that should not be solved

She’s an iconic Londoner, but now Michaela Coel is broadening her horizons. Coel, pictured, recently lived in Ghana for six months and the trial run seems to have gone well. Now she tells Vogue of her plans to build a house in a village there where her father lives. She…

Research says life happened all at once, in a chemical Big Bang. It was thought the ingredients came together slowly, bit by bit.