Strange & Offbeat
140,000 year old bones of our ancient ancestors found on sea floor, revealing secrets of extinct human species
Bones from an extinct human ancestor have been recovered from the seafloor, revealing a previously u ...View More
Astronomers spy puzzlingly 'perfect' cosmic orb with unknown size and location
Astronomers have discovered the eerie remains of a supernova with an almost perfect spherical shape ...View More
India’s Most Beautiful Cricket Ground Is Hidden in the Middle of a Sprawling Plantation
The Harrisons Malayalam Plantation in Varandarappilly, Kerala, is home to India’s most beautiful cri ...View More
Viking Age women may have wielded weapons when pregnant, sagas and ancient artifacts hint
Pregnant women wielding swords and wearing martial helmets, foetuses set to avenge their fathers — a ...View More
'It epitomises the strangeness of Sutton Hoo': 6th-century bucket found at Anglo-Saxon ship burial holds human cremation
A copper bucket found at Sutton Hoo in England decades ago is much more than a pretty artifact: A ne ...View More
Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, reanalysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals
Scientists have uncovered fresh evidence that Venus is not dead — geologically speaking. Venus and E ...View More
Unknown strain of bacteria found on China's Tiangong Space Station
Scientists have discovered a new microbe never-before-seen on Earth inside China's Tiangong space st ...View More
Cool science: Researchers craft tiny biological tools using frozen ethanol
Imagine drawing on something as delicate as a living cell -- without damaging it. Researchers at the ...View More
World's first petahertz-speed phototransistor in ambient conditions
What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than toda ...View More
A head and a hundred tails: How a branching worm manages reproductive complexity
Scientists have uncovered the genetic underpinnings of one of the ocean's most bizzare animals: a br ...View More
