Research has suggested that the synthetic steroids delivered by the female contraceptive pill can shrink certain regions of the female brain and could also be altering their function. In 2015, neuroscientists from the University of California, Los Angeles in the US took brain scans of 90 women who were either currently using the pill or […]
The Indonesian island for Flores became famous in 2003 when paleoanthropologists exploring the Liang Bua Cave in western Flores found the tiny skeletons of mysterious humans whose height never exceeded one meter (3.3 feet). Given the unfortunate yet popularity-enhancing nickname of Hobbits, the skeletons were eventually determined to be those of a previously unknown hominin […]
Some mysterious disappearances are stranger than others, and among the weirdest are those where the missing person shows up with mysterious clues and riddles that only serve to drive it all further into the odd. I have written of such cases before, and they never cease to amaze. Here is another very recent unsolved case […]
