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From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day is celebrated with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes. This year it's on Tuesday, so make sure to triple check viral posts and don’t leave your back open to any sticky...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Lithium-ion batteries, used in consumer devices and electric vehicles, typically last hours or days between charges. However, with repeated use, they degrade and need to be charged more frequently. Now, researchers are considering...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
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An international team is currently closely tracking the near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4. The impact probability estimates for the year 2032 has been reduced from a peak of 3 percent to below 0.001 percent.Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
It turns out there's nothing miraculous about red marks found on a communion host at a Catholic church in Indiana. The discovery at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Morris was unusual enough for a formal inspection. But the...Monday, March 24, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have discovered that chimpanzees living in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania employ a degree of engineering when making their tools, deliberately choosing plants that provide materials that produce more flexible tools...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
An international team has merged two lab-synthesized materials into a synthetic quantum structure once thought impossible to exist and produced an exotic structure expected to provide insights that could lead to new materials at the core...Sunday, April 6, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Researchers asked generative AI to write a research paper. While adept at some steps, it wholly failed at others.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
Reports of a dinosaur-like beast known as the Mokele-mbembe are on the rise in The Democratic Republic of CongoWednesday, April 2, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
Una nutria que se escapó de un zoológico, Ofelia, ha regresado a casa, pero Louie sigue en paradero desconocido, quizás en busca de una pareja. Las dos nutrias de río norteamericanas escaparon hace dos semanas del NEW Zoo & Adventure...Thursday, March 27, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have discovered brand new interference patterns in twisted two-dimensional tungsten ditelluride lattices. These so-called moir patterns can be tuned to look like periodic spots or even one-dimensional bands by adjusting the...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
While sneaking up on prey, cuttlefish employ a dynamic skin display to avoid detection in last moments of approach, researchers have found.Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence -- the biological production of light -- is one of the flashier survival tools used for luring prey, communication, and recognizing potential mates among...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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From virtual reality to rehabilitation and communication, haptic technology has revolutionized the way humans interact with the digital world. While early haptic devices focused on single-sensory cues like vibration-based notifications,...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A solar wind event from 2017 that hit Jupiter and compressed its magnetosphere created a hot region spanning half Jupiter's circumference.Sunday, March 30, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Thieves took eight Corvettes from the lot of a Kentucky automobile plant where the legendary muscle car is built. The cars were stolen from the GM Bowling Green Assembly plant, the home of the Corvette since the early 1980s. Police say...Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Researchers presented advances shaping the world of forensics, from research that could improve how forensic scientists estimate a person's age at death, to technology demos of CSIxR -- a virtual reality (VR) application that simulates...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
A woman who has been remodelling her home was left horrified when she found something 'creepy' in her old chimney - and she has no idea how it got there.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ultrasound to reveal capillaries and...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment. By analyzing the DNA of two...Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years.Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets. Establishing a direct link between the...Friday, March 28, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A video has gone viral after it revealed a "hidden function" of car sun visors, and it's safe to say that many drivers have been left completely mindblown.Monday, March 24, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
To mitigate global climate change, emissions of the primary culprit, carbon dioxide, must be drastically reduced. A newly developed process helps solve this problem: CO2 is directly split electrochemically into carbon and oxygen. Oxygen...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could revolutionize early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers. The team say this is the first time it has been possible to generate...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have developed a new theory to explain heat transfer on advanced surfaces. The theory is critical to the researchers' work to develop innovative surfaces for applications such as harvesting water from air without electricity.Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A new kind of press-on nails come in all shapes and colors -- and when you're done with them, you can melt them down and reuse the materials to make your next look.Tuesday, April 1, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
One of two North American river otters who escaped from a Wisconsin zoo last month has returned home safe and sound. Louie and Ophelia got through a hole in a fence at the NEW Zoo & Adventure Park in Green Bay during a snow storm. The...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle diseases. Conversely, an African diet rich in...Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. Researchers created solar cells made out of simulated Moon dust. The cells convert sunlight into energy efficiently, withstand radiation damage, and...Wednesday, March 26, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Getting zapped with millions of volts of electricity may not sound like a healthy activity, but for some trees, it is. A new study reports that some tropical tree species are not only able to tolerate lightning strikes, but benefit from...Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
In new images, scientists have gotten the closest look yet at Sagittarius C -- a 'stellar nursery' where clouds of gas and dust have collapsed to form thousands of new stars.Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have repurposed smartphone camera sensors to create a detector capable of tracking antiproton annihilations in real time with unprecedented resolution. This new device can pinpoint antiproton annihilations with a resolution of...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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As the warmer weather settles in, lots of people are starting to think about jet washing their patios. But you have to be careful you don't cause damage.Thursday, March 27, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Most haptic devices only deliver feedback as simple vibrations. New device applies dynamic forces in any direction to simulate a more realistic sense of touch. Small, lightweight device can enhance virtual reality, help individuals with...Thursday, March 27, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
The reuse of human urine would allow for the production of sustainable fertilizers for urban agriculture, with significant environmental benefits, a new study concludes. The research evaluates the environmental impact of nitrogen...Friday, April 4, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
WARNING: UPSETTING IMAGE. Xena, who is around two-years-old, was hit by a train in Egypt and now needs a wheelchair to get around.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
One person shared their experience of finding something 'pretty spooky' in the attic of a new house they bought.Thursday, April 3, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new study has found that the world's finest yodellers aren't from Austria or Switzerland, but the rainforests of Latin America. The research provides significant new insights into the diverse vocal sounds of non-human primates, and...Tuesday, March 25, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an acoustic version of a quantum computer.