While New Year’s Eve has always been historically celebrated with fireworks, a massive solar flare could be about to change things for millions by creating a stunning light show as 2015 becomes 2016. The eruption of a sunspot cluster produced an M1-class solar flare directly aimed at Earth. Discovery News reports that the extreme ultraviolet radiation immediately washed over Earth’s …

TSA: Travelers in 5 states may need more than driver’s license to fly. On Dec. 22, the Department of Homeland Security alerted state officials in Illinois and Missouri that their exemptions to a federal identification standard will end. In practice, this means that driver’s licenses from those states wont be valid to pass through security at various federally operated or …

If you want to stop eating junk food, just take a long look in the mirror. Unhealthy food tastes worse when you see yourself eating it! Scientists found people who ate unhealthy food found it less tasty if they looked at themselves eating it in the mirror. Looking at yourself eating a calorie filled cheeseburger or sloppy slice of pizza …

A Chinese firm is building the largest animal cloning factory in the world, but you won’t see humans being cloned just yet, according to NBC News. Boyalife, a biotech company in the city of Tianjin, is currently focusing on cloning cattle, race-horses, and dogs that could potentially become drug-sniffers for anti-terrorism squads. In an interview with NBC News, Dr. Xu …

The english entrepreneur Heather Mills is thankful for her vegan diet because she thinks it gives her more energy and makes her more productive. She said: “I found I had more energy [when I went vegan]. “I just love that feeling that I wake up in the morning and I don’t feel sluggish or rough and I’ve just got consistent …

The number of twins being born in the U.S. is at an all-time high, but birth rates of other multiples are at their lowest in two decades. The rate of twin births in the United States reached a record high in 2014, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for …

She captured the hearts of people across the country. But now baby Hermella, whose parents fought to keep on life support, has passed away. Nirmala Naidoo, family spokesperson from Open Arms Patient Advocacy Society, confirmed Monday Hermella Mammo died Dec. 20 at the Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary. The story of the brown-haired, chubby-cheeked little girl who lived at the …

A British couple have made history after a surrogate dog gave birth to the first cloned puppy of its kind on Boxing Day. Laura Jacques and Richard Remde from Yorkshire paid $100,000 to have the puppy cloned at a clinic in South Korea. The first-of-its-kind boxer puppy was born on Boxing Day and was cloned from Dylan two weeks after …

Japan – Giant squid fans got a nice Christmas present, when one of the titans of the deep appeared in a Japanese harbor on Christmas Eve. It was a rare sight to behold and has given scientists an insight into the giant squid which they know little about. The 3.7 metre-long creature surfaced in Toyama Bay in central Japan on …

A freight train carrying roughly 200,000 liters of sulphuric acid derailed in a remote area of Queensland, Australia. The 26-carriage train came off the tracks around 12 miles east of Julia Creek in northwest Queensland. Three people were treated for minor injuries, local media reports say.

Samsung’s growth recently reached a stall, which caused the company to go back to the drawing board and redesign its products form the ground up. Lesser build qualities seemed to be the blame, but some current and former Samsung executives seem to disagree with this idea; they believe the real issue with the Korean giant is the lack of software …