Strange & Offbeat
Radio Station Secretely Uses AI Host for Six Months Without Anyone Noticing
An Australian radio station has come under fire for reportedly using an AI-generated female host for ...View More
What is xeroderma pigmentosum? The rare genetic disorder that forces people to avoid sunlight
Disease name: Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP)Affected populations: Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare geneti ...View More
Diagnostic dilemma: A rash 'migrated' across a man's body from his anus
The patient: A 64-year-old man in SpainThe symptoms: The patient, who had previously been diagnosed ...View More
China's '2D' chip could soon be used to make silicon-free chips
Researchers in China say they have created a new silicon-free transistor that could significantly bo ...View More
Giant croclike carnivore fossils found in the Caribbean
Imagine a crocodile built like a greyhound -- that's a sebecid. Standing tall, with some species rea ...View More
Catquistadors: Oldest known domestic cats in the US died off Florida coast in a 1559 Spanish shipwreck
The earliest known domestic cat in what is now the United States perished 466 years ago in a shipwre ...View More
Man Accidentally Buys His Own Car After Having It Stolen a Few Weeks Earlier
An English man unknowingly bought back his own Honda Civic just weeks after having it stolen from hi ...View More
'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers
Germ theory is the idea that pathogens can invade the human body and cause disease — and it wasn't a ...View More
Will the vegetables of the future be fortified using tiny needles?
When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50 percent of the chemicals end up in the air or ...View More
Astronomers discover giant 'bridge' in space that could finally solve a violent galactic mystery
Astronomers thought the Perseus cluster was a massive-but-stable grouping of galaxies, until they fo ...View More
