It could be termed ‘The Rise of the Bedroom of the Apes’. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the beds of chimpanzees are cleaner than those of humans, reports The Telegraph. Pexels The study was born out of a curiosity over the cleanliness of human beds compared to our closest genetic relatives. “We know that human homes are effectively their own ecosystems, and human beds often contain a subset of the taxa - or types - of organisms found in the home,” said Megan Thoemmes, who led the research in Tanzania.

The Temple at Kailasa is a marvel to behold. The giant structure, 164 feet deep, 109 feet wide, and 98 feet high, is one of the biggest monolithic structures in the world. And, by “monolithic” we mean that the whole thing was carved out of a single rock. Wikipedia The legend goes that a local king in India suffered from a serious, debilitating disease. His wife offered up a prayer to the Hindu god Ghrishneshwar (Shiva) to cure her husband and, as part of her bargain to save him, vowed to build a temple if he was healed of his disease.

Something is going on in the lightless depths of our oceans and seas. For months now, various seaside communities have been witnesses to the sudden arrival of washed-up corpses of mysterious or extremely rare marine creatures. The trend actually began several years ago in England when a previously unknown organism that looked like a cross between an alligator and a sturgeon. Daily Express In March of 2018, residents in Waycross, Georgia awoke one morning to find a ‘Loch Ness’ like creature lying dead on the unpopulated beach.

Looking at all of Earth’s species if you had to guess which one had an alien origin, the octopus might make the short list, and now some scientists are actually making that case. Wikipedia A controversial paper recently appeared in the science journal Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology and it argues that octopuses are such complex beings that they can only be explained from an extraterrestrial perspective. Though the journal lists 33 researchers as collaborating on the paper, it’s being criticized for having zero zoologists.

[caption id=“attachment_38738” align=“alignnone” width=“640”] Flickr | Gulf of Oman | by Francisco Anzola[/caption] It seems like every day we’re learning something new about the oceans. Sometimes we discover new sea life or new ways that animals communicate with each other under water, other times, however, we come across disturbing features like this one… Recently, robots exploring the depths of the Gulf of Oman have discovered a “dead zone” the size of Scotland!

It has stood for somewhere between 4,000 to 5,000 years amidst the verdant expanse of a Wiltshire field in England. It has weathered millenniums of raw English seasons, storms, rare earthquakes and even the urban sprawl of man. Wikimedia Commons The theorized Druidic site of Stonehenge is a monument to the cosmic and astrological fascinations of a bygone age. It was erected, so we are told, to unlock the mysteries of the heavens and to note the cycles of nature.

At a time when 21st Century Fox was enjoying the widespread success of its TV show, ‘The X-Files’, the British government was conducting an audit of a decade of UFO sightings and related phenomenon. Pixabay Called Project Condign, condign meaning a deserved punishment for a crime, the effort was handled by the U.K’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). Investigators and analysts studied a database of sightings between 1987 and 1997 to determine not so much the validity of the incidents (but they did offer opinions) but any patterns in the sightings.

California has been recently shaken by relatively small earthquakes, but there is concern that the tremors may be something similar to the birth pangs of women, in that they start out weak and infrequent and grow in number and intensity. In the early evening of May 14, the San Francisco Bay area was roiled by what was originally reported as a 3.8 magnitude quake with an epicenter 2 miles east of Oakland.

Believed to have disappeared in some cosmic mishap of change in trajectory, asteroid 2019 WC9 has reappeared in foreboding fashion, writes the UK’s Express. Max Pixel Said to be bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, WC9 was first spotted in 2010 by astronomers in Australia. As quickly as it was located, it disappeared. On May 15, however, the asteroid hurtled perilously close to Earth, skimming by at just 126,000 miles from our planet, the closest it will be to earth for the next 300 years.

The precise setting of the variables that went in to making our universe the way it is are beyond belief. Just a smidgen change here and there and the constitution of the cosmos could change and possibly make life extinct. Pixnio Take that fragility of this cosmic stasis and try to replicate it in a parallel universe the balance becomes even harder to achieve. Thanks to a pair of research papers that have been published in the ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society’, it appears that one variable could be increased on hundreds of magnitudes in a parallell universe and it would not deter the formation of life-giving planets.