All posts tagged with weird science
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-(Natural News) Doctors attending to a Bangladeshi couple were in for a big surprise – just one month after giving birth to a child, they were again helping the mother to give birth, this time to twins. According to experts, the woman had a rare condition called uterus didelphys, which meant she had two uteruses instead of […]
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-(Natural News) Humans often keep dogs as pets to protect their homes and family from intruders. Likewise, a South American species of burrowing tarantula keeps a tiny frog to protect its eggs and young spawn from small insects. In turn, the spider protects the frog from predators. Photographs taken by Italian researcher Emanuele Biggi featured an individual […]
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-(Natural News) Some of the largest living animals in the world dwell exclusively in the polar seas and the deepest parts of the oceans. Blue whales, colossal squid, lion’s mane jellyfish, and other leviathans may have attained and maintained their massive sizes thanks to a combination of extremely slow metabolic processes and oxygen availability in polar […]
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-(Natural News) Around the world, parasitoid wasps use spiders as the host for their babies. Researchers recently found that the wasps take advantage of the spiders’ hormone to force their victims into doing their bidding. A wasp starts the gruesome series of events by laying an egg on the body of a spider. Its larva feeds on […]
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-(Natural News) One of the last things anyone should want is a machine-brain interface, even if it is a non-invasive type that doesn’t require brain surgery. However, the US military recently announced that it was throwing money at half a dozen organizations to come up with a system that lets its user control equipment with […]
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-(Natural News) When your dog looks up at you with its mouth open wide and its lips pulled up at the corners, is it really smiling at you? Despite humans having over 30,000 years of history with dogs, the answer is still unclear. But researchers believe they are getting close to finding the answer. A group of neuroscientists from […]
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-(Natural News) Want to know what ancient Middle Eastern beer tastes like? Try asking this team of researchers from Israel: In a study published in mBio, microbiologists and archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority and four local universities used yeast strains that lay dormant for thousands of years to brew potable “ancient beers.” For the multi-layered study, researchers isolated yeast […]
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-(Natural News) The triangle-weaver spider, scientifically known as Hyptiotes cavatus, looks and acts like your friendly, neighborhood house spider at first glance. The most it usually does in a day is build a web and wait for dinner to fall for its trap. However, unlike a normal spider, this particular arachnid does something unusual when a prey finds […]
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-(Natural News) The atomic bombing of Hiroshima during the Second World War destroyed much of the old city. Many decades later, a study found that some of the debris from the eruption ended up in the province’s beaches, where they condensed into glass beads. In 1945, the U.S. Air Force unleashed an atomic bomb nicknamed […]
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-(Natural News) Researchers from the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington have discovered how some microorganisms that live in portions of the ocean where oxygen is almost absent manage to thrive. Called marine oxygen-deficient zones (ODZs), these regions are sandwiched between the oxygen-rich surface and the deep layers. In their study, which appeared […]
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