A star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy does so in a way that proves physicist Albert Einstein right – again. The star, called S2, orbits Sagittarius A* in a rosette shape, blipping out from the elliptical orbit at random points – an idea predicted by Einstein over … Read more
Spikes in fevers across the US predicted deaths from the novel coronavirus in most states just days beforehand. Kinsa Health, a medical technology company based in San Francisco, has been tracking daily fever readings using data from smart thermometers connected to the Internet. Of the 47 states that have experienced deaths from COVID-19, the disease … Read more
Tamara Ecclestone has revealed her daughter predicted Bernie was to become a father again aged 89 and he sat the family down to tell them. The Formula One heiress, 35, told MailOnline Sophia, six, had quizzed her grandfather and his wife Fabiana Flosi, 44, about the couple starting a family – just weeks before Bernie … Read more
Professor who predicted 500,000 Britons could die from coronavirus and prompted Boris Johnson to order lockdown accused of having ‘patchy record of modelling pandemics’ Professor Neil Ferguson, director at Imperial College, London, authored report He said even plans to slow the virus would result in around 250,000 deaths Rival academic Professor Michael Thrusfield accused his … Read more
The iconic animated TV show has been known to foresee major world events – from Donald Trump’s presidency to the discovery of a three-eyed mutant fish to the erection of London skyscraper The Shard. Here are some of the original predictions from across the four-decade-long run of The Simpsons – and the real-life events that … Read more
The streets are so dead now you can hear the ambulance sirens from a long way off. And you hear them more and more. Yesterday, one came for an old lady at the end of my block, a squad of masked medics milling around the stretcher as she was wheeled into an ambulance and away … Read more
When psychic Sylvia Browne wrote that a ‘severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe’ in the year 2020 little did she know how eerily prophetic it might become. However 12 years on from the prediction, conspiracy theorists have taken to the work of fiction to find the answers and are now claiming that the author’s … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 4,500 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 125,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type … Read more
Someone who is infected with the coronavirus can spread it with just a simple cough or a sneeze, scientists say. More than 4,000 people with the virus are now confirmed to have died and more than 110,000 have been infected. Here’s what we know so far: What is the coronavirus? A coronavirus is a type … Read more