Einsteinium: Scientists create and capture the 99th chemical element

Einsteinium, the elusive 99th element on the periodic table, has been created and captured, allowing some of its properties to be characterised for the first time. Not naturally occurring on Earth, the so-called ‘synthetic element’ was first discovered among the debris of the first-ever hydrogen bomb back in 1952. Since then, very few experiments have ever been … Read more

Einsteinium: Chemists create and capture the elusive element discovered thanks to the hydrogen bomb

Einsteinium, the elusive 99th element on the periodic table, has been created and captured, allowing some of its properties to be characterised for the first time. Not naturally occurring on Earth, the so-called ‘synthetic element’ was first discovered among the debris of the first-ever hydrogen bomb back in 1952. Since then, very few experiments have ever been … Read more

Elon Musk offers $100m prize for best carbon capture technology idea

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has offered up a $100million reward as a prize for the best carbon capture technology idea.  Carbon capture technology is a field of research which seeks to remove carbon dioxide, a key greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere.  It has been actively investigated for several years but very little progress has been made … Read more

Disappointed customers capture hilarious images of the most bizarre advertising tricks and fails

Buyers beware! Customers share their disappopintment after the packaging didn’t live up to its promise It is true to say that customers don’t always get what they pay for  People from across globe shared bizarre advertising tricks they’ve encountered Snaps shared by Bored Panda include very lacklustre ball pit and over-sized USB By Raven Saunt … Read more

Astronomers capture amazing image of a dying galaxy

Amazing image shows a dying galaxy ejecting 10,000 Suns-worth of gas every year after a giant collision – weakening its ability to form stars Researchers observed the galaxy when the universe was 4.5 billion years old  The gas expelled was likely the result of an earlier merger with another galaxy  This gas leak effectively caused the galaxy … Read more

Satellite images capture North Korean soldiers standing in formation

A North Korean parade has spelled out the message ‘defend with your life’ in a Pyongyang square in an apparent rehearsal ahead of a party congress in January.   Satellite imagery showed the propaganda phrase being spelled out in Korean by people standing in formation and holding up red placards in Kim Il-sung Square.  The think-tank … Read more

Hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys return after Boko Haram capture

Parents shed tears of joy as hundreds of Nigerian schoolboys who were abducted by Boko Haram were freed from their Islamist captors. Freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, the boys were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state and Nigeria’s president on Friday. Emotional reunions with their parents began late in … Read more

Gone appetit! Stomach-churning photos capture the worst meals

Gone appetit! Stomach-churning photos capture the worst meals – from VERY burnt sourdough to instant noodles teamed with a BANANA These disastrous mealtime fails show how wrong people can go in the kitchen  Social media users have been sharing their often stomach-churning pictures  Bored Panda collated a collection of the worst examples from across the … Read more

Heartwarming pictures capture man, 89, as he hugs his daughter for the first time since FEBRUARY

After months of isolation, care home residents were reunited with loved ones yesterday as the roll-out of rapid Covid tests got under way. Families and care workers shed tears of joy as they hugged for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. It came just hours after ministers announced measures aimed at opening … Read more