The Great Escapists FIRST LOOK: Richard Hammond and Tori Belleci become real-life castaways

The Great Escapists FIRST LOOK: Richard Hammond and Tori Belleci become real-life castaways as they come up with VERY explosive ways to get off a deserted island The Great Escapists will be released on Friday 29th January on Amazon Prime Video  By Laura Fox For Mailonline Published: 10:23 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 10:23 … Read more

Real-life Rapunzel whose hair is six-feet long reveals creepy fans ask to sniff it

A real-life Rapunzel with six-foot-long hair has revealed her long locks have seen her  inundated with DMs from ‘creepy’ guys asking to sniff it. Lawyer Alona Anufriieva, 31, from Dnipro, Ukraine, started growing her hair at the age of 12, aiming to grow it to her waist, and it took a dozen years for it … Read more

Real-life ‘Very Hungry Caterpillar’ head-butts food rivals out the way

A species of caterpillar gets ‘hangry’ – a cross between hungry and angry – when food is scarce, a new study reveals.  Monarch butterfly caterpillars (danaus plexippus) become aggressive fighters in their quest to eat milkweed – a herbaceous plant that’s toxic to most animals and their favourite food. US researchers found that monarch caterpillars … Read more

Barack Obama says Donald Trump is a real-life ‘Richie Rich’

Barack Obama tore into Donald Trump during an interview published Monday where he said the president is a ‘Richie Rich’ type and far from the traditional ideal of American masculinity – like John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, he noted. ‘I think about the classic male hero in American culture when you and I were growing … Read more

Outer Banks’ Madelyn Cline on ‘happy’ real-life romance with co-star Chase Stokes: ‘Love is tight!’

Outer Banks star Madelyn Cline on ‘happy’ real-life romance with co-star Chase Stokes: ‘Love is tight!’ By Cassie Carpenter For Dailymail.com Published: 23:52 GMT, 12 November 2020 | Updated: 23:52 GMT, 12 November 2020 Outer Banks star Madelyn ‘Maddie’ Cline discussed her real-life romance with BFF-turned-leading man Chase Stokes for the first time since becoming … Read more

Engineer creates the world’s first real-life retractable ‘Star Wars’ lightsaber

A popular YouTuber has created the first functioning lightsaber, using propane gas burning at around 4,000°C to create a retractable plasma beam. Canadian James Hobson, known as ‘the Hacksmith’, has a following of ten million subscribers and works on turning popular science fiction items into reality.   Inspired by a love of Star Wars, he has previously made … Read more

A real-life space oddity: Asteroid hurtling towards earth might be a piece of rocket trash from 1966

A real-life space oddity: ‘Asteroid’ hurtling towards Earth may be a piece of rocket that was jettisoned during attempted moon landing in 1966 A telescope discovered ‘asteroid 2020 SO’ hurtling towards Earth last month Now scientists believe the object is part of an Atlas Centaur 7 rocket from 1966 The rocket propelled NASA’s Surveyor 2 to … Read more

JK Rowling reveals cross-dressing villain in new book is based on real-life serial killers

JK Rowling has revealed the cross-dressing villain in her new book is based on real-life serial killers Jerry Brudos and Russell Williams after facing another transphobia row.  The Harry Potter author released Troubled Blood under her crime-writing pseudonym Robert Galbraith earlier this week. The thriller sees detective Cormoran Strike try to work out what happened … Read more

Scientists develop a real-life ‘cyclops lens’ with a laser pointer

Scientists have taken inspiration from X-Men’s Cyclops and created a contact lens that points a red laser at what the wearer is looking at.  The regular-size contact lens is fitted with a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) which points in the direction the user is looking.  French engineers used off-the-shelf components to create a working … Read more