Strange & Offbeat
Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color 'olo'
In Frank Baum's original novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Emerald City is said to be such a bri ...View More
Skeletal evidence of Roman gladiator bitten by lion in combat discovered
Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archae ...View More
Engineering a robot that can jump 10 feet high -- without legs
Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech engineers have created a 5-inch sof ...View More
Bus Driver with Three Decades of Service Loses $84,000 Pension for Stealing $7
A Japanese bus driver with 29 years of experience on the job lost his $84,000 retirement package aft ...View More
What is the ancient Egyptian 'Eye of Horus' — and why is it found in so many burials?
The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ...View More
80-Year-Old Woman Falls from Sixth Floor Apartment, Survives Unscathed
An 80-year-old woman from Yekaterinburg, Russia, can call herself lucky to be alive after falling fr ...View More
Parasitic worm raises risk of cervical cancer, study finds
[unable to retrieve full-text content] A parasitic worm may raise the r ...View More
Lion mauled gladiator to death 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, controversial study suggests
Bite marks on a 1,800-year-old skeleton from Roman Britain suggest that a gladiator was mauled to de ...View More
Robot see, robot do: System learns after watching how-to videos
Cornell University researchers have developed a new robotic framework powered by artificial intellig ...View More
New species of electricity-conducting organism, name it after Tribe
Scientists have identified a novel species of bacteria that acts as electrical wiring, potentially u ...View More
