Strange & Offbeat
In a 1st, ancient proteins reveal sex of human relative from 3.5 million years ago
In a first, scientists have used ancient proteins to determine the sex of an archaic human relative ...View More
Japanese Company Offers Free Drinks and Hagover Leave to Attract New Talent
Unable to offer attractive wages, a Japanese tech company has been trying to attract new talent by o ...View More
'Wandering' contraceptive implant travels to woman's lung in rare case
In an extremely rare case, a woman's contraceptive implant migrated from her upper arm to her left l ...View More
Beavers Take 2 Days to Build Dams The Government Had Been Planning for 7 Years
A family of European beavers has become an overnight sensation in the Czech Republic after taking ju ...View More
January 2025 hottest on record despite US cold and La Niña
Last month was the hottest January on record, climate scientists have announced — despite the onset ...View More
Quantum theory and thermodynamics: Maxwell's demon?
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of ...View More
Temperamental stars are distorting our view of distant planets
Most of the information we have about planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) comes from lookin ...View More
Stunning, rainbow-colored object spotted by James Webb telescope could be an alien solar system in the making
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a stunning image of a young star firing energy in ...View More
Mermaid Performer Has Her Head Swallowed by Giant Aquarium Fish During Show
A viral video shot at the Mekong Underwater World in Yunnan, China, shows a young mermaid performer ...View More
Some species of baleen whales avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales -- those that have "baleen" in their mo ...View More
