Strange & Offbeat
Male flies sharpened their eyesight to call the females' bluff
With bloated bellies and hairy legs, female flies try to look bigger to get food from courting mates ...View More
By studying neutron 'starquakes', scientists hope to transform their understanding of nuclear matter
The study of 'starquakes' (like earthquakes, but in stars) promises to give us important new insight ...View More
Scientists discover hidden 'plumbing' that's driving Antarctic ice sheet into the ocean
An extensive model of the Antarctic ice sheet is helping researchers peer deep beneath the ice to re ...View More
'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp
There are hundreds of thousands of meteorites hidden beneath Antarctica's icy surface, some of which ...View More
Scientists discover giant galaxy 32 times bigger than Earth's — and they named it 'trouble'
You may not know it, but right now there's a huge cosmic rave party happening far, far above our hea ...View More
Scientists find giant magma reservoirs hidden beneath dormant volcanoes in the Cascades
Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large ...View More
Engineers model electric grid demand for EVs to charge while in motion
Running out of gas in a remote area far from a gas station is every driver's worst nightmare. A simi ...View More
The World’s Longest Car Has 26 Wheels and Can Fit Up to 75 Passengers
Built from six 1976 Cadillac El Dorado limousines, The American Dream is over 30 meters long and has ...View More
Why do plants transport energy so efficiently and quickly?
The efficient conversion of solar energy into storable forms of chemical energy is the dream of many ...View More
Quantum machine offers peek into 'dance' of cosmic bubbles
Physicists have performed a groundbreaking simulation they say sheds new light on an elusive phenome ...View More
