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The way cricket frogs move across the surface of water has long been thought to resemble walking on water, but researchers have now discovered a different reality.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have successfully achieved a quantum collective behavior of macroscopic mechanical oscillators, unlocking new possibilities in quantum technology.Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new study finds nearly 50 hidden relatives of Pterodactylus, the first pterosaur. Joined by its newly discovered relatives, Pterodactylus's 'family' now encompasses tiny flaplings, a host of teenagers, some mums and dads and even a few...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Biologists have revealed genetics behind the alternating sexes of walnut trees. The research reveals a mechanism that has been stable in walnuts and their ancestors going back 40 million years -- and which has some parallels to sex...Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A study of more than 26,000 white dwarf stars has confirmed a long-predicted but elusive effect in these ultra-dense, dying stars: Hotter white dwarfs are slightly puffier than cooler ones, even when they have the same mass.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A fragment of 'lost' music found in the pages of Scotland's first full-length printed book is providing clues to what music sounded like five centuries ago. Scholars have been investigating the origins of the musical score -- which...Thursday, December 19, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
California ground squirrels hunt, kill and eat voles, reveals a new study documenting evidence of widespread carnivorous behavior among squirrels.Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A popular New Zealand bird “reality show” that each year follows a pair of northern royal albatrosses as they breed and raise a chick has drawn a global audience of devoted fans in its current 10th season. Millions have watched the...Friday, January 10, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
Not much thought is placed on age-old expressions and jokes but the popular chicken crossing the road line has uncovered some dark connotations, apparently.Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
Wildlife officials have rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in southwestern Colorado. A group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
A man has taken to social media to share how he got revenge on his 'entitled' neighbour who kept stealing his Wi-Fi - and it's earned him praiseWednesday, December 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Galaxy clusters -- the big cities of the universe -- are home to many giant elliptical galaxies that have completed their growth and are not forming stars. However, it is still unclear what has shut down star formation. In a new study,...Friday, January 10, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
From 'rocket-type objects' to 'cigar-shaped craft', the skies have been filled with unidentified flying objects spotted across the country.Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
Imagine having 5 gallons of mayonnaise dumped over your head. That’s exactly what the winning head coach of the annual Duke’s Mayo Bowl receives as a reward for his team winning the game. It's a tradition born in 2021 as Duke’s Mayo...Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A research team has developed a method for extracting gold from electronics waste, then using the recovered precious metal as a catalyst for converting carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, to organic materials.Monday, January 13, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how collisionless shock waves -- found throughout the universe -- are able to accelerate particles to extreme speeds.Saturday, January 11, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
There has long been a debate about where eggs should be stored - but now the experts have settled the argument once and for all.Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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A whitish, grey patch that sometimes appears in the night sky alongside the northern lights has now been explained.Tuesday, January 7, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Goji berries are a ubiquitous superfood known for a multitude of health benefits, including their antibiotic properties. Researchers have now found an effective way to harvest silver nanoparticles from these berries. They created the...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size. The findings suggest that these microrobot swarms --...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from Weird News RSS Feed
NORAD’s Santa tracker is a Christmas tradition that’s become nearly global in scope. Each year, at least 100,000 kids call into the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado. And they ask for Santa’s location as he delivers...Sunday, December 22, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Scientists recently discovered that the giant 'conveyer belt' currents that push star-forged material out of our galaxy and pull it back in can also transport carbon atoms. That means that a good deal of the carbon here on Earth,...Friday, January 3, 2025 from Weird News RSS Feed
For the elephants and others at the Berlin Zoo, it’s finally time to unwrap their Christmas presents. Trees that didn’t find a home this festive season were given to some of the animals on Friday in what has become an annual event....Thursday, January 9, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A battery that needs feeding instead of charging? This is exactly what researchers have achieved with their 3D-printed, biodegradable fungal battery. The living battery could supply power to sensors for agriculture or research in remote...Wednesday, December 25, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have developed an innovative therapeutic platform by mimicking the intricate structures of viruses using artificial intelligence (AI).Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Conventional wisdom assumes the ratio of gases in a planet's atmosphere should match the ratio of gases in the natal disk that birthed it. For the first time, researchers compared gases in a still-forming planet's atmosphere to its natal...Friday, January 10, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have demonstrated that the direction of the spin-polarized current can be restricted to only one direction in a single-atom layer of a thallium-lead alloys when irradiated at room temperature. The discovery defies...Tuesday, December 24, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Researchers have found evidence of magnetic fields associated with a disc of gas and dust a few hundred light-years across deep inside a system of two merging galaxies known as Arp220. They say these regions could be the key to making...Sunday, December 8, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: 'What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?' and 'Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?' A team of mathematicians explored and...Monday, December 9, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures? In living animals, we can simply...Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Physicists have created a new and long-lasting magnetic state in a material, using only light. The results provide a new way to control and switch antiferromagnetic materials, which are of interest for their potential to advance...Wednesday, January 8, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Evolutionary biologists are investigating the extent to which ants learn from past experiences. After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from that same nest.Friday, January 10, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
An international team of scientists has uncovered a fascinating piece of the evolutionary puzzle: how the ventral nerve cord, a key component of the central nervous system, evolved in ecdysozoan animals, a group that includes insects,...Sunday, December 29, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The chart shows the relative ups and downs...Thursday, January 9, 2025 from Daily Express :: Weird Feed
Merseyside Police have reported a driver for their "unacceptable" behaviour on the road during a yellow weather warning, which has gone viral on social media.Thursday, January 2, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North America, Europe, and Africa. The...Wednesday, January 1, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick Institute.Monday, January 6, 2025 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have developed an advanced swarm navigation algorithm for cyborg insects that prevents them from becoming stuck while navigating challenging terrain. The new algorithm represents a significant advance in swarm robotics. It...Tuesday, December 10, 2024 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
