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September 9, 2015 4:09 PM EDT. Jeffrey Kluger is an editor at large at TIME. He covers space, climate, and science. He is the author of 12 books, including Apollo 13, which served as the basis for ...
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Watch "xenobots" in action. Brain teaser. Scientists got an entirely new view of the brain when they took a tiny piece of a woman's brain and mapped the varied shapes of 50,000 cells and ...
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A hunt for Loch Ness monster DNA. This famous photograph of Nessie from 1934 turned out to be a hoax created with a toy submarine and a fake "sea monster" body. (Image credit: Keystone/Getty ...
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Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behaviour. (Journal of Experimental Biology) Swearing as a response to pain. (NeuroReport) Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children ...
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6. In the 1960s at Penn State University, an experiment was conducted on a male turkey to see how minimal a stimuli had to be for it to be considered a mate. The researchers kept removing ...
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75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried Their Dead. May 1, 2024 — A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull ...
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The ten top weird science stories of 2022. Image Human and AI: Marc x DALLE-E: "Weird scientist in lab with something going wrong in artistic style". December 11, 2022. By Cosmos. With Science ...
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A brown-and-white, 4-year-old Chihuahua named Gizmo was minding his own business in a garden in Paignton, Devon, a seaside town in the southern part of the United Kingdom. Suddenly, a gull ...
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A science award that makes you laugh, then think. As founder of the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams explores the world's most improbable research. In this thought-provoking (and occasionally side-splitting) talk, he tells stories of truly weird science -- and makes the case that silliness is critical to boosting public interest in science.
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Science & Society All Topics. Health; Humans. Humans ... Weird science. ... membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (EIN 53-0196483). ...
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Historical medical literature is filled with strange studies and bizarre experiments that would almost certainly never be carried out today. Take, for example, Romanian forensic scientist Nicolae ...
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This was enough to convince U.K. water supplier Thames Water; they issued a statement revealing that this was exactly what they planned to do with the fatberg. They concluded that there was enough ...
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Here are 30 of the very strangest. 30. Ovulation: A Lap Dancer's Secret Weapon. To investigate the theory that estrus - the interval of amplified fertility and sexual awareness often referred to as "heat" in mammals - is no longer present in human females, researchers turned to an unlikely source: lap dancers.
Brian Resnick was Vox's science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox's podcast about unanswered questions in science. To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in ...
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Explore the weird and wonderful world of science with NBC News Weird Science. Discover strange discoveries, experiments, animals, theories and more.
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r/WeirdResearch is a place to ask any odd question or post a weird research discovery, no matter how weird or strange, for research purposes. Whether you're a student, a scientist, a writer or just someone who's curious about the world, this is the place to come for answers and new information about random topics that you might not find anywhere else.
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4. xkcd: "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Written by a former robot scientist, though, it makes sense only if you speak geek. 5. Creation Wiki: The creationist answer to ...
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But big scientific discoveries are by nature counterintuitive and sometimes shocking. Here are ten of the biggest threats to our peace of mind. 1. The Earth is not the center of the universe. We ...
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In season 2 of "Stranger Things," Hawkins Middle School science teacher Scott Clarke shares the story of the most famous neuroscience patient, Phineas Gage. In 1848, 25-year-old Gage worked as ...
Funny Titles, And Not So Much
Trying for a funny title at least enforces brevity. But I should also note the by-now-a-cliché academic habit, which is even more common in the humanities and social sciences, of the double-barrelled title, as in "Weird Attention-Getting Phrase: Followed by the Actual Title of the Work". Plenty of not-so-wonderful jokes and pop culture ...
101 fun facts that will blow your mind
101 of the best random fun facts. A cloud weighs around a million tonnes. A cloud typically has a volume of around 1km 3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m 3 - that's a density that's around 0.4 per cent lower than the air surrounding it ( this is how they are able to float ).
100 Science Topics for Research Papers
How to Start Your Science Research Paper. Science papers are interesting to write and easy to research because there are so many current and reputable journals online. Start by browsing through the STEM research topics below, which are written in the form of prompts. Then, look at some of the linked articles at the end for further ideas.
Researchers publish largest-ever dataset of neural connections
Published in Science, the study is the latest development in a nearly 10-year collaboration with scientists at Google Research, combining Lichtman's electron microscopy imaging with AI algorithms to color-code and reconstruct the extremely complex wiring of mammal brains. The paper's three first co-authors are former Harvard postdoc ...
10 of the weirdest experiments of 2021
Tech. 10 of the weirdest experiments of 2021. News. By Ben Turner. published 30 December 2021. Brains grown in petri dishes, self-replicating zombies and the invention of otherworldly time ...
Near collapse of Earth's magnetic field 591 million years ago ...
These weird animals barely resembled life today — squashy fans, tubes and doughnuts, and discs such as Dickinsonia, which grew up to 4.6 feet (1.4 meters) in size, and the sluglike Kimberella.
New 'forever chemical' cleanup strategy discovered
Date: May 9, 2024. Source: University of California - Riverside. Summary: A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as ...
From steel engineering to ovarian tumor research
The philanthropic support fueled Kumar's full transition into health science research. "The work we are doing now was initially not funded by traditional sources, and the MathWorks Fellowship gave us the flexibility to pursue this field," Kumar says. "It provided me with opportunities to learn new skills and ask questions about this topic.
A fragment of human brain, mapped in exquisite detail
A Harvard team led by Jeff Lichtman, the Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and newly appointed dean of science, has co-created with Google researchers the largest ...
New Rhizobia-diatom symbiosis solves long-standing marine mystery
Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered ...
Research holds promise for liver regeneration
More information: Jinglin Wang et al, Biomimetic hepatic lobules from three-dimensional imprinted cell sheets, Science Bulletin (2024).DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2024.02.030
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September 9, 2015 4:09 PM EDT. Jeffrey Kluger is an editor at large at TIME. He covers space, climate, and science. He is the author of 12 books, including Apollo 13, which served as the basis for ...
Watch "xenobots" in action. Brain teaser. Scientists got an entirely new view of the brain when they took a tiny piece of a woman's brain and mapped the varied shapes of 50,000 cells and ...
A hunt for Loch Ness monster DNA. This famous photograph of Nessie from 1934 turned out to be a hoax created with a toy submarine and a fake "sea monster" body. (Image credit: Keystone/Getty ...
Effects of cocaine on honeybee dance behaviour. (Journal of Experimental Biology) Swearing as a response to pain. (NeuroReport) Pigeons can discriminate "good" and "bad" paintings by children ...
6. In the 1960s at Penn State University, an experiment was conducted on a male turkey to see how minimal a stimuli had to be for it to be considered a mate. The researchers kept removing ...
75,000-Year-Old Female Neanderthal from Cave Where Species Buried Their Dead. May 1, 2024 — A new documentary has recreated the face of a 75,000-year-old female Neanderthal whose flattened skull ...
The ten top weird science stories of 2022. Image Human and AI: Marc x DALLE-E: "Weird scientist in lab with something going wrong in artistic style". December 11, 2022. By Cosmos. With Science ...
A brown-and-white, 4-year-old Chihuahua named Gizmo was minding his own business in a garden in Paignton, Devon, a seaside town in the southern part of the United Kingdom. Suddenly, a gull ...
A science award that makes you laugh, then think. As founder of the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams explores the world's most improbable research. In this thought-provoking (and occasionally side-splitting) talk, he tells stories of truly weird science -- and makes the case that silliness is critical to boosting public interest in science.
Science & Society All Topics. Health; Humans. Humans ... Weird science. ... membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education (EIN 53-0196483). ...
Historical medical literature is filled with strange studies and bizarre experiments that would almost certainly never be carried out today. Take, for example, Romanian forensic scientist Nicolae ...
This was enough to convince U.K. water supplier Thames Water; they issued a statement revealing that this was exactly what they planned to do with the fatberg. They concluded that there was enough ...
Here are 30 of the very strangest. 30. Ovulation: A Lap Dancer's Secret Weapon. To investigate the theory that estrus - the interval of amplified fertility and sexual awareness often referred to as "heat" in mammals - is no longer present in human females, researchers turned to an unlikely source: lap dancers.
Brian Resnick was Vox's science and health editor and is the co-creator of Unexplainable, Vox's podcast about unanswered questions in science. To investigate some of the biggest mysteries in ...
Explore the weird and wonderful world of science with NBC News Weird Science. Discover strange discoveries, experiments, animals, theories and more.
r/WeirdResearch is a place to ask any odd question or post a weird research discovery, no matter how weird or strange, for research purposes. Whether you're a student, a scientist, a writer or just someone who's curious about the world, this is the place to come for answers and new information about random topics that you might not find anywhere else.
4. xkcd: "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language." Written by a former robot scientist, though, it makes sense only if you speak geek. 5. Creation Wiki: The creationist answer to ...
But big scientific discoveries are by nature counterintuitive and sometimes shocking. Here are ten of the biggest threats to our peace of mind. 1. The Earth is not the center of the universe. We ...
In season 2 of "Stranger Things," Hawkins Middle School science teacher Scott Clarke shares the story of the most famous neuroscience patient, Phineas Gage. In 1848, 25-year-old Gage worked as ...
Trying for a funny title at least enforces brevity. But I should also note the by-now-a-cliché academic habit, which is even more common in the humanities and social sciences, of the double-barrelled title, as in "Weird Attention-Getting Phrase: Followed by the Actual Title of the Work". Plenty of not-so-wonderful jokes and pop culture ...
101 of the best random fun facts. A cloud weighs around a million tonnes. A cloud typically has a volume of around 1km 3 and a density of around 1.003kg per m 3 - that's a density that's around 0.4 per cent lower than the air surrounding it ( this is how they are able to float ).
How to Start Your Science Research Paper. Science papers are interesting to write and easy to research because there are so many current and reputable journals online. Start by browsing through the STEM research topics below, which are written in the form of prompts. Then, look at some of the linked articles at the end for further ideas.
Published in Science, the study is the latest development in a nearly 10-year collaboration with scientists at Google Research, combining Lichtman's electron microscopy imaging with AI algorithms to color-code and reconstruct the extremely complex wiring of mammal brains. The paper's three first co-authors are former Harvard postdoc ...
Tech. 10 of the weirdest experiments of 2021. News. By Ben Turner. published 30 December 2021. Brains grown in petri dishes, self-replicating zombies and the invention of otherworldly time ...
These weird animals barely resembled life today — squashy fans, tubes and doughnuts, and discs such as Dickinsonia, which grew up to 4.6 feet (1.4 meters) in size, and the sluglike Kimberella.
Date: May 9, 2024. Source: University of California - Riverside. Summary: A method has been discovered to treat water heavily contaminated with unhealthful forever chemicals, known by chemists as ...
The philanthropic support fueled Kumar's full transition into health science research. "The work we are doing now was initially not funded by traditional sources, and the MathWorks Fellowship gave us the flexibility to pursue this field," Kumar says. "It provided me with opportunities to learn new skills and ask questions about this topic.
A Harvard team led by Jeff Lichtman, the Jeremy R. Knowles Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and newly appointed dean of science, has co-created with Google researchers the largest ...
Scientists have discovered a new partnership between a marine diatom and a bacterium that can account for a large share of nitrogen fixation in vast regions of the ocean. The newly-discovered ...
More information: Jinglin Wang et al, Biomimetic hepatic lobules from three-dimensional imprinted cell sheets, Science Bulletin (2024).DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2024.02.030