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AI-written stories are getting better, but people still distrust AI-generated art.Alcohol consumption among non-human animals may not be as rare as previously thought, say ecologists
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Anecdotes abound of wildlife behaving 'drunk' after eating fermented fruits, but despite this, nonhuman consumption of ethanol has been assumed to be rare and accidental. Ecologists now challenge this assumption. They argue that since...Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A groundbreaking, nine-year study has revealed that elephants approaching small-scale farms in Kenya avoid beehive fences housing live honey bees up to 86% of the time during peak crop seasons, helping to reduce human-elephant conflict...Monday, October 21, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have discovered the earliest evidence of animal butchery by humans in India.Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Plants adapt their water consumption to environmental conditions by counting and calculating environmental stimuli with their guard cells.Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
New research in our Milky Way has revealed a neutron star that rotates around its axis at an extremely high speed. It spins 716 times per second, making it one of the fastest-spinning objects ever observed.Tuesday, October 22, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Twenty-two new species of gall wasps have been identified and named, thanks to new research. The study nearly doubles the number of known species in this genus of wasps.Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Paleobiologists have found that the sinuses of ocean dwelling relatives of modern-day crocodiles prevented them from evolving into deep divers like whales and dolphins.Saturday, October 12, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
Thursday, October 17, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have analyzed down to the smallest detail the unusual arsenal of weapons that a predatory marine bacterium has at its disposal. Perhaps one day these weapons could also be put to use in medicine.Monday, October 28, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
The Triassic-Jurassic Extinction, 201.6 million years ago, has been considered by some to have been a fairly slow-burn event, driven by rising temperatures and ocean acidification. A new study says it was kicked off for the most part by...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Echolocating bats have been found to possess an acoustic cognitive map of their home range, enabling them to navigate over kilometer-scale distances using echolocation alone.Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
Florida freshman Olivier Rioux is the world's tallest teenager. The 7-foot-9 walk-on center also is an intriguing basketball prospect. The happy-go-lucky Canadian who owns a spot in the Guinness record book will make basketball history...Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding our understanding of black holes, the objects they can host, and the way they form.Friday, November 1, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (AP) — Cuando se acercan los festejos del Día de Muertos, a la mexicana Meztli Lizaola le resulta inevitable no acordarse de su entrañable mascota y amigo Taco, un chihuahua de pelaje marrón claro y de enternecedora...Friday, October 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Physicists have shown that extremely light particles known as axions may occur in large clouds around neutron stars. These axions could form an explanation for the elusive dark matter that cosmologists search for -- and moreover, they...Monday, October 21, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new PET scan reliably detects benign tumors in the pancreas, according to new research. Current scans often fail to detect these insulinomas, even though they cause symptoms due to low blood sugar levels. Once the tumor is found,...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
DFS has been a household name for over 40 years - but many customers still have no idea what the company's name actually stands for.Saturday, October 12, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Thieves with a nose for fine cheese have pulled off a massive cheddar ripoff in London. Neal’s Yard Dairy said a con artist posing as a wholesale distributor for a major French retailer had made off with 22 metric tons (48,488 pounds) of...Sunday, October 13, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A species of tropical butterfly with unusually expanded brain structures display a fascinating mosaic pattern of neural expansion linked to a cognitive innovation.Friday, October 25, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick, which warms the underlying ice shell and may also explain Titan's methane-rich...Thursday, October 31, 2024 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
A schoolboy competing in a Halloween costume competition has left people stunned after his clever outfit appeared to defy the laws of physics.Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Photosynthesis, the chemical reaction that enables almost all life on Earth, is extremely inefficient at capturing energy -- only around 1% of light energy that a plant absorbs is converted into chemical energy within the plant....Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
Researchers have been striving to discover whether there's a connection between a person's preferred sleeping position and their personality...Saturday, October 12, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A viral video has left people scratching their heads after an optical illusion made it look as though a ballet dancer was spinning in two different directions.Monday, October 28, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Becoming less sociable protects older monkeys from getting ill, new research shows.Saturday, November 2, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
Pets are not forgotten during Mexico’s famed Day of the Dead celebrations, when even Fido and Tiger get a place at the altars Mexican families set up to honor their deceased loved ones, complete with flowers, candles and photographs. The...Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new study of human skeletal remains from the wreck of the 16th century English warship Mary Rose suggests that whether a person is right- versus left-handed may influence how their clavicle bone chemistry changes as they age.Thursday, October 17, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Astronomers observed ancient quasars that appear to be surprisingly alone in the early universe. The findings challenge physicists' understanding of how such luminous objects could have formed so early on in the universe, without a...Thursday, October 24, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A historical supernova documented by Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1181 has been lost for centuries, until very recently. Yet, the newly found remnant shows some stunning characteristics that are puzzling astronomers. Now, it...Thursday, October 24, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
New research shows that a large, ubiquitous mobile genetic element changes the antagonistic weaponry of Bacteroides fragilis, a common bacterium of the human gut.Sunday, October 13, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Researchers have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an organism should ideally learn in its surroundings. An organism's ideal learning rate depends on the pace of environmental change and its life cycle, they say.Friday, November 1, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
Tourists eager to fulfill the fabled promise to return to the Eternal City are being forced to toss coins over a plastic barrier and into a small makeshift pool in front of Rome’s Trevi Fountain while the iconic attraction is being...Monday, October 28, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
A rare dime whose whereabouts had remained a mystery since the late 1970s has sold for just over $500,000. The coin was struck by the U.S. Mint in San Francisco in 1975 and depicts President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It’s one of just two...Monday, October 28, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have strengthened the case that matter becomes dark energy when massive stars collapse and become black holes.Monday, October 28, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Burmese pythons can consume prey even larger than scientists realized, according to a new study. That means more animals are on the menu across southern Florida, where the nonnative, invasive snakes have decimated populations of foxes,...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
Only 1% of people can spot all of the hidden tigers in this mind-bending optical illusion.Saturday, October 12, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Inspired by large language models, researchers developed a training technique that pools diverse data to teach robots new skills.Tuesday, October 29, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. Going door-to-door for candy on All Hallows’ Eve has long been commonplace throughout the country, but not in Des Moines. In Iowa’s...Friday, November 1, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
During the Day of the Dead celebrations that take place in late October and early November, Latin Americans honor their departed loved ones by setting up altars adorned with food, flowers and photographs. But what about carving the...Sunday, October 13, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
