15 h. ago Mystery solved as huge carnivorous snail filmed laying an egg from its neck

The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail were shrouded in mystery - until now.

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20 h. ago A rare New Zealand snail is filmed for the first time laying an egg from its neck

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first time

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20 h. ago Mystery of rumbling ‘zombie’ volcano showing signs of eruption finally solved

Uturuncu volcano is technically dead but continues to eject plumes of gases

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65 h. ago Pathemata by Maggie Nelson review – a writer’s attempt to describe chronic pain

Woolf said language ‘runs dry’ when it comes to convey the reality of illness. Here is an impressive effort to do just thatIn her landmark 1985 work, The Body in Pain, American essayist Elaine Scarry makes a case for the “unsharability” of pain and its resistance to language. “Physical pain,” she writes, “does not simply resist language but actively destroys it.” Sixty years earlier in On Being Ill, Virginia Woolf made her famous claim about how language “runs dry” when it comes to articulating illness. Both theories grapple with inexpressibility. Experiencing serious, persistent pain invokes many feelings: irritation, curiosity (what’s causing it?), fear (of something sinister) and ultimately the desire to eradicate it. The search for a diagnosis can be as debilitating as the condition itself. In Pathemata: Or, the Story of My Mouth, Maggie Nelson tries to solve the mystery of a longstanding health issue. “Each morning, it is as if my mouth has survived a war – it has pro...

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6 d. ago 28 Years Later fans floored after hidden message in trailer leads them to secret website

The post-apocalyptic horror film (pictured), set for release in June, will be the third in the series, after 2002's 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later in 2007.

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1 week ago Secret files and bombshell book that could solve mystery of Jill Dando's murder

Five warnings were issued by UK security officials that Serbia may have been planning revenge covert attacks in Europe in the weeks before Jill Dando was murdered on her doorstep

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2 w. ago Mystery of the 'Dial of Destiny' is SOLVED after 2,000 years: Scientists finally uncover the true use for the ancient device that inspired Indiana Jones

It served as the inspiration for the 'Dial of Destiny' in the final Indiana Jones movie. And now scientists believe they may have finally solved the mystery of the Antikythera Mechanism.

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3 w. ago NASA spots strange 'mushballs' of slushy hail fall on planet in our Solar System

Scientists have finally proved that Jupiter gets slammed by bizarre "mushballs", solving a long-standing space mystery

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