Strange & Offbeat
The International Space Station is overly sterile; making it 'dirtier' could improve astronaut health
Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while ...View More
Most powerful cosmic rays in the universe start shockingly close to Earth, paper claims
The most powerful cosmic rays raining down on Earth may come not from distant corners of the univers ...View More
Scholars are building an archive of federal climate data. Here's how to find it.
Information on the internet might seem like it's there forever, but it's only as permanent as people ...View More
'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch
The scientists behind NASA's largest and most powerful space telescope ever built are bracing for po ...View More
The deadly 'black fungus' infection that decimates flesh
Disease name: Mucormycosis, also known as "black fungus"Affected populations: Mucormycosis is a pote ...View More
Neanderthal 'population bottleneck' around 110,000 years ago may have contributed to their extinction
Neanderthals may have been headed toward their demise much earlier than experts previously thought, ...View More
32-Year-Old Man Marries Ex-Classmate’s 53-Year-Old Mother
Isamu Tomioka met his wife, Midori, when he was still in school. She was the mother of one of his cl ...View More
A springtail-like jumping robot
Springtails, smallbugs often found crawling through leaf litter and garden soil, are expert jumpers. ...View More
Adsorptive regolith on Mars soaks up water, researchers reveal
Mars, the next frontier in space exploration, still poses many questions for scientists. The planet ...View More
New low-cost challenger to quantum computer: Ising machine
A low-energy challenger to the quantum computer that also works at room temperature may be the resul ...View More
