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Amateurs Inform Air Force Secret Space Plane Changed Orbit
Is the secret X-37B space plane going rogue? Or is this part of the plan for the Air Force’s mystery vessel? Either way, amateur sky watchers found the reusable space plane had boosted itself into a different orbit last week. This might be...
Canadian Sewer Workers Happen Upon Gigantic Dinosaur Tooth
A work crew in Edmonton found a huge dinosaur bone while working in a sewer tunnel. What’s amazing is not necessarily the discovery, but the cavalier attitude held by the museum official the crew turned the fossil over to. Museum officials...
The Strange History Of Pre-UFO Sentient Fireballs
How did folks describe UFO phenomenon before we had the science fiction constructs to fill in the blanks of interstellar travelers from deep space? Probably a lot like 12-year-old George Campbell of Sherman, Texas in 1898. “Last night papa...
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Old People With Super Powers & R2-D2 Gets Married
The Pesky Psychopath Problem: Could Science Identify & Possibly Cure Them?
Who hasn’t dealt with a psychopath? You offer to help them put a sofa in the back of a van one moment, badda bing badda boom you’re putting the lotion on your skin or else you get the hose again… A new report by Scientific American’s MIND...
Baboon Hoax Leads To Proof Of Monkey Dance
At The Edge Of Conspiracy A Man Stands With A His Finger On The Zoom
For artist Tervor Paglen, the truth is out there. Seriously, it’s like 60 miles away and you’re standing in front of his shot. Can you move? Thank you. Paglen has become famous for compiling very long range, grainy photos of the the most...
We’ve Been Living A Lie: Blind Mole Rats Not Actually Blind
They even see colors, those lying little vermin. Impostors! [Live Science]
Viking’s Protected Graves With Thor’s Hammer
If this is an elaborate viral campaign to promote the upcoming Thor movie, color me impressed. Long dismissed as accidental additions to Viking graves, prehistoric “thunderstones”—fist-size stone tools resembling the Norse god Thor’s...
5 UFO Sightings That Non-Lunatics Find A Bit Unsettling
The fine folks at Cracked.com list ’em like only they can, from military dogfights to strange green fireballs. [Cracked]
Experimental Limb Regeneration That WILL Turn You Into A Lizard
We told you last week about a possible new therapy hoping to regrow body parts. Unlike the ill-fated research of Dr. Curt Connors, it does not use the DNA of an animal that naturally regrows limbs so the likelihood of the recipient turning...
Even Monkeys Are Baffled By Flying Squirrels
Apparently some small monkeys are freaked the freak out by flying squirrels. Researches have noticed that the otherwise even-keeled creatures lose their s@#$ when they see one. When Japanese giant flying squirrels glided over to a tree in...
Experimental Limb Regeneration That Won’t Turn You Into A Lizard
Paging Dr. Connors… Dr. Curt Connors… Researchers at the Tufts Center for Regenerative & Developmental Biology at Tufts University are testing whether a replicated amniotic (womb fluid) environment can promote limb regeneration in adult...
Shooting A Shark In The Head Whilst Pop Melodies Strum [Video]
And on Shark Week no less! In the interest of fair comment the YouTube description says that fatal shot was fired because the injured shark was going to be eaten anyhow, so this was a mercy killing. Still… OMFG! This completely changes how...
Are We About To Create A Real-Life Captain America?
The FDA has given a biotech tech firm the A-OK to start embryonic stem cell therapy trails. First up? An Iraq war vet who was paralyzed from the chest down in 2005. Yesterday it was announced that Iraq War veteran and Marine Matt Cole,...
What To Get The Corpse Hunter Who Has Everything…
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the Cadillac of dead body retrieval technology… The system involves a small aluminum pipette that can detect trace amounts of a chemical called ninhydrin-reactive nitrogen, which collects in air...
Are We Seeing Evidence Of Distant “Flaws In Space-Time?”
Could brief flashes of gamma explosions billions of light years away be the very seems of our cohesive universe? According to theories of high-energy particle physics, the strings would have been created when matter in the very early...
3-D Model Recreates Living Blob Which Used To Prowl The Oceans
It meandered about the sea, a living blob named Drakozoon kalumon. Surviving by glomming on to other creatures and surviving on the tiniest morsels of food, this 1.7 millimeter creature was protected by a leathery outer skin bigger than...
The Laser Is Saved! Lucasfilm Backs Away From Wicked Laser Lawsuit
In a letter to CNN Lucasfilm indicates that Wicked Lasers has provided sufficient evidence that they are not intentionally marketing their new (awesome) laser as a light saber. That means Lucasfilm Legal is powering down their Death Star...