A young Queensland schoolgirl suffered horrific burns to her face after placing a a viral squishy toy in a microwave to soften it – a trend that is popular on TikTok.  Violet Zerbst was squeezing a cube-shaped Needoh toy she had heated in her home kitchen for just 30 seconds when…

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found something they never expected — ultraviolet light from a galaxy that existed just 1.4 billion years after the big bang. That galaxy contains tightly clustered young stars that produce ionizing light capable of transforming the opaque, neutral gas within and immediately around…

Two teams of physicists have made the world’s first nuclear clocks. These radical new devices keep time using fluctuations in the energy states of an atom’s nucleus, rather than those of its electrons, which atomic clocks currently use to define the length of a second. Working out how to extract…

A. Sutherland  – AncientPages.com – In “Theogony,” a Greek poet, Hesiod, who likely lived around 700 BC, tells about Hypnos, the god of sleep, and his twin brother, Thanatos, the god of death, who the Greeks occasionally saw as a harbinger of a peaceful death. Their parents were Nyx, the…