A reporter for Medium’s tech site OneZero recently spotted an especially bizarre ad on Instagram:
The ad features a GIF of a person wearing a Fitbit-style wristband, with the text “Eliminate Cravings.” Across the frame from their hand sits a giant slice of cake. As the person reaches towards the cake, the wristband turns red and zaps them with electricity. You can…
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Physicists watch quantum particles tunnel through solid barriers. Here’s what they found.
A team of physicists has devised a simple way to measure the duration of a bizarre phenomenon called quantum tunneling. Source: https://www.livescience.com/quantum-tunneling-observed-and-measured.html
Bizarre fossil with an incredibly long neck was a marine hunter
Tanystropheus had a neck three times the length of its body, and a new analysis of its skull suggests it lived in the sea, where it ambushed prey Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251211-bizarre-fossil-with-an-incredibly-long-neck-was-a-marine-hunter/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Ingested beetle escapes out of frog’s posterior
A bizarre experiment has demonstrated how one aquatic beetle can survive being swallowed up by a frog. Being eaten by a frog would seem to be a death … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/338663/ingested-beetle-escapes-out-of-frogs-posterior…
The Anglerfish Deleted Its Immune System To Fuse With Its Mate
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: There are few animals more bizarre than the anglerfish, a species that has so much trouble finding a mate that when the male and female do connect underwater, males actually fuse their tissue with the females for life. After the merger, the two share a single respiratory and digestive system. Now scientists have…
Black holes are hiding movies of the universe in their glowing rings
A faint fuzzy glow around the first black hole image last year baffled astronomers. Now we know what it contains – and it’s more bizarre than we ever imagined Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732930-700-black-holes-are-hiding-movies-of-the-universe-in-their-glowing-rings/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Astronomers ponder Odd Radio Circles in space
Scientists in Australia have discovered a strange new phenomenon in deep space – “Odd Radio Circles” – that appear in radio telescope images as mysterious circles or rings. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/astronomers-ponder-odd-radio-circles-in-space…
Woman’s migraine medication caused a bizarre ‘medieval’ disease
The rare reaction caused a burning sensation in her legs and the loss of one of her toes. Source: https://www.livescience.com/migraine-medication-caused-ergotism.html
‘World’s Most Wanted Man’ Involveld In Bizarre Attempt To Buy Hacking Tools
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: The fugitive executive of the embattled payment startup Wirecard was mentioned in a brazen and bizarre attempt to purchase hacking tools and surveillance technology from an Italian company in 2013, an investigation by Motherboard and the German weekly Der Spiegel found. Jan Marsalek, a 40-year-old Austrian who until recently was the chief operating…
Two bizarre brown dwarfs found with citizen scientists’ help
With the help of citizen scientists, astronomers have discovered two highly unusual brown dwarfs, balls of gas that are not massive enough to power themselves the way stars do. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-07-bizarre-brown-dwarfs-citizen-scientists.html…