Staff at the world-renowned Smithsonian Institute Museum of Natural History are red-faced after a 5th grader on a family trip pointed out a mistake that’s been there for nearly 30 years.
Kenton Stufflebeam, an 11-year-old from Michigan, noticed a bold notation in the museum’s Tower of Time display that mistakenly identified the Precambrian as an era. […]
Scientists at an aquarium in the UK have made an odd discovery. One of their recently acquired octopuses is missing two of its eight legs.
Dubbed Henry the Hexapus, it seems that this guy suffers from a birth defect where two of the sets of legs failed to separate during gestation.
This brings a […]
Do you like running out in fresh snowfall and catching snowflakes on your tongue. Maybe you shouldn’t. Our friends over at MWDaily have the story:
According to a new study published in Science magazine, up to 85% of snowflake nuclei are bacteria. The most common bacteria found was Pseudomonas syringae, which can cause disease in several […]
No, this isn’t a crack about research scientists all being forty-year-old virgins.
According to a group of Italian scientists, they have been able to isolate an area of thicker tissue within the vagina that they believe is the specific location of the infamous and elusive g-spot using ultrasound.
Unfortunately there’s a catch: not all […]
You may not know it, but cows are actually one of the rudest animals around. In fact, they belch so frequently and in such large numbers that the methane they release may contribute to global warming.
One Swedish university has taken this very seriously and been awarded $590,000 in funds to research the phenomenon. According […]
If you’re nothing like me and you have $50,000 in extra cash just laying around, you might want to check out this wacky item on Ebay.
According to the seller, this is a concept Sky Commuter craft built by Boeing back in the 1980s and is the only model left of its kind. At […]
This is just one enormous bathroom joke waiting to happen.
At the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, it was reported that an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas is heading directly for us here in the Milky Way galaxy traveling at more than 150 miles per second. When it does […]
This story is about as close as real life can get to the plot of a daytime soap opera.
The BBC has reported that the British courts have just annulled the marriage of two siblings. But this is no simple case of incest. As it turns out, the couple are biological twins and, what’s more, […]
This just seems all too appropriate now that I have just finished watching the entire original Planet of the Apes movie series on AMC. According to researchers examining macaque monkeys in Indonesia, some males "pay" their mates for sex by grooming.
Apparently the likelihood that a female would have sex with a male was increased by […]
Here is one piece that is sure to piss off feminists everywhere. According to one university professor, humor comes from testosterone.
Apparently men are more likely to make jokes and be generally comedic than women. This, he argues, can be seen not only in day-to-day interactions between people but in that there are many more male […]
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