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A Triassic herbivore, known for its supposed similarities to a modern-day ostrich, has been revealed to have entirely different approach to feeding from previously thought.Friday, November 26, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A team of physicists has shown how quantum systems can simultaneously evolve along two opposite time arrows - both forward and backward in time. The study necessitates a rethink of how the flow of time is understood and represented in...Thursday, November 25, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a jelly-like material that can withstand the equivalent of an elephant standing on it, and completely recover to its original shape, even though it's 80% water.Monday, December 6, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation than any other previously spotted pair of supermassive black holes and will eventually...Thursday, December 2, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
The TESS mission has discovered an ultra-short-period planet (USP) that is also super light. The planet is named GJ 367 b, and it orbits its star in just eight hours. The planet is about the size of Mars, and half as massive as the...Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way's dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I. Almost as massive as the black hole in our own galaxy, the finding could redefine our...Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists recently discovered that water was once present in a region of Mars called Arabia Terra.Monday, November 29, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new species of parasitoid wasp that constructs remarkable star-shaped cocoon masses is reported from the biodiversity hot spot Ryukyu Islands. Researchers observed how the wasps construct 'stars' after making their way out of the moth...Friday, December 3, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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The oldest unequivocal evidence of upright walking in the human lineage are footprints discovered at Laetoli, Tanzania in 1978, by paleontologist Mary Leakey and her team. The bipedal trackways date to 3.7 million years ago. Another set...Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from Weird News RSS Feed
BERLIN (AP) — German police are looking for witnesses after burglars broke through the wall of a toy store to steal dozens of Lego sets. Police said Tuesday that the theft took place over the weekend in the western town of Lippstadt. The...Monday, November 29, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
In part of a recent human study led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), it was found that after eating a curry dish containing pepper, piperine - an alkaloid responsible for the pungency of pepper - was present in the milk of...Thursday, December 2, 2021 from TNT Magazine - Weird
One of the pieces of furniture that more recent bedroom furniture collections have contained is bedroom benches. Benches have a lot of purposes in the bedroom, particularly when getting ready for the...Thursday, November 25, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers describe a revolutionary imaging technology that compresses lamp light into a nanometer-sized spot. It holds that light at the end of a silver nanowire like a Hogwarts student practicing the 'Lumos' spell, and uses it to...Saturday, November 27, 2021 from Weird News on HuffingtonPost.com
If the Boise Public Library were still enforcing the late fee printed in the book, it would have racked up more than $800 in fines.Monday, November 29, 2021 from Weird News on HuffingtonPost.com
"Police believe that the buck is part of an organized crime group breaking into buildings in New Hampshire."Monday, November 29, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Astronomers show that comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein (BB), the largest comet ever discovered, was active long before previously thought, meaning the ice within it is vaporizing and forming an envelope of dust and vapor known as a coma....Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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They slept in the beds that are usually on show in the Aalborg, Denmark, store.Thursday, December 2, 2021 from Weird News RSS Feed
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man involved in a legal tussle with the town of Portsmouth earlier this year over signs on his property critical of town officials is back at it. Michael DiPaola recently bought a plot of land on a...Friday, December 3, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State University is offering anyone with a campus parking citation the chance to get out of their jam with some peanut butter. The university will accept at least 80 ounces (2,270 grams) of peanut...Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Scientists have documented the discovery of two new species of fossilized armored worms in Australia -- Lepidocoleus caliburnus and Lepidocoleus shurikenus -- dating from about 400 million years ago. Then, using the micro-CT imaging...Friday, December 3, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Scientists have discovered a new form of biological reproduction -- and created self-replicating living robots. Made from frog cells, these computer-designed organisms gather single cells inside a Pac-Man-shaped 'mouth' -- and release...Friday, November 26, 2021 from TNT Magazine - Weird
UGears mechanical models are self-assembly wooden models that could be used as modular moving toys and puzzles. Ugears wooden models that are unique 3D jigsaw wooden...Wednesday, November 24, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Mounded, luminous clouds of gas and dust glow in this Hubble image of a Herbig-Haro object known as HH 45. Herbig-Haro objects are a rarely seen type of nebula that occurs when hot gas ejected by a newborn star collides with the gas and...Thursday, November 25, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
An international research team have discovered a specific type of gut bacteria in bees that can improve memory.Friday, December 3, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed a noninvasive way to remove faulty brain circuits that could allow doctors to treat debilitating neurological diseases without the need for conventional brain surgery.Monday, November 29, 2021 from Weird News RSS Feed
YORK, England (AP) — Still feeling the effects of the coronavirus, a top snooker player fell asleep in the middle of his match in one of the most prestigious events in the sport. “My head went down and I woke up and I didn’t have a clue...Friday, December 3, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
Monday, November 29, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Research has long strived to develop computers to work as energy efficiently as our brains. A study has now succeeded in combining a memory function with a calculation function in the same component. The discovery opens the way for more...Wednesday, November 24, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have developed highly efficient, on-chip frequency shifters that can convert light in the gigahertz frequency range. The frequency shifters are easily controlled, using continuous and single-tone microwaves.Monday, November 29, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Organic materials could soon be utilized for glow-in-the-dark products, which has the potential to diversify and expand the already US$400 million industry, thanks to new research.Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A new strategy to reduce the spread of COVID-19 employs a mobile robot that detects people in crowds who are not observing social-distancing rules, navigates to them, and encourages them to move apart.Saturday, December 4, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Coastal plants and animals have found a new way to survive in the open ocean -- by colonizing plastic pollution. A new commentary reports coastal species growing on trash hundreds of miles out to sea in the North Pacific Subtropical...Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Using artificial intelligence and deep learning, researchers have developed a neural network that 'hallucinates' the structures of new protein molecules. The scientists made up completely random protein sequences and introduced mutations...Wednesday, December 1, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Coccolithophores are microscopic algae that form tiny limestone plates, called coccoliths, around their single cells. They are responsible for half of the limestone produced in the oceans and therefore play a major role in the carbon...Friday, December 3, 2021 from Weird and wacky news from around the world
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Monday, December 6, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
The tiny male golden orb-weaving spider faces a considerable challenge when searching for a mate. He is a fraction of the size of the massive female, but must carefully enter her web and approach her without being noticed, because the...Monday, November 29, 2021 from Weird News RSS Feed
LONDON (AP) — Dozens of customers who stopped for a drink at Britain’s highest altitude pub got a longer stay than they bargained for, after the building was cut off by a blizzard. Sixty-one people woke up Monday after their third night...Tuesday, November 30, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Archaeologists have unearthed the first Roman mosaic of its kind in the UK.Monday, November 29, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
Researchers have succeeded in their aim of not only changing the strength but also the nature of the interaction between microscopic quantum magnets, known as spins. Instead of falling into a state of complete disorder, the especially...Thursday, December 2, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
By trapping light into tiny crevices of gold, researchers have coaxed molecules to convert invisible infrared into visible light, creating new low-cost detectors for sensing.Monday, December 6, 2021 from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily
A research team has succeeded in producing two molecules that are otherwise only formed by microorganisms from extremely contaminated wastewater in an abandoned mine in South Korea. The method, which took four years to develop, could...