Retired US Marine Corps combat engineer shows off a new tool capable of separating microplastics from organic sea matter. The Trash Time Machine (TTM) is an open-source invention created by Ray Aivazian III, a former Marine Corps combat engineer and the founder of Stimulating Education and Ecological Design (SEED), a…
This footage shows the UK and the US Navy conducting a military exercise with unmanned surface vessels in the middle of the Arabian Gulf. Newsflash obtained the footage from the US Navy, along with a short statement that said: "Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessels (USV) operate with USS Delbert D.…
More than 20,000 people were evacuated from a German city after this massive unexploded 500-kilogramme World War II bomb was found 78 years after it was dropped there by US forces. The evacuation occurred in Frankfurt am Main after the huge device was discovered during construction work. The Allied bomb…
Possessed zombie wasps with fungus stalks coming out of their brains have been found by wildlife experts in the US. The parasitical fungus - which locks a victim's jaws around a twig -takes over the movements of the wasp until it has devoured them from the inside. A zombie wasp…
Giant alligators have been released into the Rio Grande to deter illegal migrants from crossing the border river to the US, reports Mexican media. The scare emerged after US Border Patrol agents photographed what looks like an enormous 'gator swimming near Eagle Pass, Texas, a regular crossing point. Eagle Pass…
The body of an 18-year-old Mexican woman whose image went viral after she was snapped standing by the road shortly before she disappeared two weeks ago has been found in the cistern of an abandoned motel. Debanhi Escobar disappeared on the stretch of road that leads into the Mexican city…
A sex-mad fly trapped in amber 100 million years ago while on his way to tempt a mate with a floral gift has been hailed as the world's earliest recorded attempt at buying sex with the help of flowers. The male fly was sealed in tree sap as he carried…
A photographer who spent 17 days trapped in a Colombian jungle has told how he suffered hallucinations after drinking his own urine to survive. US citizen Jeshua Kaslo had been visiting the area of Paramo Pan de Azucar - just two hours from the Colombian capital Bogota, in the Colombian…
A Turkish scientist from the US has given hope to ALS, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's patients after successfully reviving dead brain cells in animals. Northwestern University Associate Professor Pembe Hande Ozdinler, who works at the Feinberg School of Medicine in the US state of Illinois, managed to revive motor neurons 60…
President Erdogan has reportedly pulled the Turkish version of the TV show 'The Masked Singer' because of its alleged satanic and pagan imagery. The reality show features contestants in costume from head to toe who perform to the unknowing audience before being unmasked when eliminated during the different rounds. The…