By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFL Science Sadly, tomorrow is the end of the world. I know, I know, you’ve still got stuff you want to do. But an expert has made the claim and, well, there’s no going back now. The mysterious planet Nibiru is going to slam into our planet, killing us all. NASA, however, is having none…
Someone Actually Tried To Prove The Earth Is Flat With This Sign
By: James Felton/IFLScience A flat-Earth conspiracy theorist has been mocked online after leaving a bizarre sign at a beach. Stephen Voss was walking St Kilda beach in Dunedin, New Zealand, when he came across a sign. Rather than giving a usual warning, such as “mind your step” or “look out! Sharks!”, it appeared to be telling…
Plastic-Eating Fungus Found At A Landfill Site In Pakistan
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science One of the defining characteristics of the Anthropocene, the geological epoch we have recently ushered in, is the massive amount of plastics that we manufacture and discard. One of the reasons we use so much of it is because it’s difficult to degrade, but this also means that the billions of tons of plastic…
Jim Carrey Gives A Bizarrely Insightful Interview – ”We Are A Field Of Energy … And I Don’t Care”
By: Educate Inspire Change We haven’t heard much from funny man Jim Carrey lately, as he explores his artistic skills and faces a wrongful death trial over his ex-girlfriend’s suicide. But his latest public appearance shows he hasn’t lost his comedic personality as he trolls an entertainment reporter so hard that she’s genuinely left speechless. He looked…
NASA Pointed Out A Threat That Could Wipe Out Humans (No, It’s Not an Asteroid)
By: Anna LeMind/The Mind Unleashed If you think about a global catastrophic event, what comes to your mind first of all? I bet you imagine a nuclear war and a deserted landscape left as a result of it. Well, in the troubled times we live in, something like this is a possible scenario. But there is another…
The Northern Lights Will Be Amazing In The Next Few Days
By: Alfredo Carpineti/IFLScience Grab a warm coat and get ready to travel away from artificial lights. Thanks to the biggest solar flare we have observed in a decade, people at the northernmost and southernmost latitudes might experience an extraordinary spectacle. According to NOAA’s aurora forecast service, the Northern Lights might be visible to more southern latitudes than they usually are,…
Jose Is Now A Category 1 Hurricane
By: Rosie McCall/IFL Science With Texas reeling from Harvey, Irma devastating several Caribbean islands, and now Jose being upgraded from a tropical storm to a Category 1 hurricane, it’s been a rough season for North America. The announcement was made Wednesday afternoon when Jose’s maximum winds hit 125 kilometers per hour (75 miles per hour). As of 5 am ET on Wednesday, maximum…
Tropical Storm Harvey Just Made A Second Landfall
By: Robin Andrews/IFL Science Hurricane Harvey, which is now a tropical storm, looked as if it would finally drift away from Texas and out to sea yesterday. Forecasters then predicted it would make a rare second landfall in the Lone Star State further down the coast, but now it appears to have drifted upwards instead…
Kenya Imposes World’s Toughest Laws Against Using Or Producing Single-Use Plastic Bags
By: Josh Davis/IFL Science Using an innocuous plastic bag in Kenya may well be something you come to regret. The East African nation has now imposed what is believed to be the world’s toughest laws for those caught producing, selling, or even using single-use plastic bags, the result of which involves being sent to jail for…