Your skin is terrible at judging how fast different textured materials are moving, highlighting a strange quirk in how the brain encodes touch Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2214457-weird-illusion-makes-you-think-fabric-is-moving-faster-than-it-is/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Why Are There So Many Weird Tech Patents?
Companies are constantly patenting strange things they have no intention of developing. From a report: Amazon is putting humans in cages to protect them from machines! Facebook is selling your face to advertisers so it can CGI you into ads! Sony has a system where you can skip ads if you stand up and yell the brand’s name! None of these…
Magnetars Can Crack Themselves Open and Bombard Earth with Gamma-Ray Flares, New Theory Suggests
Three giant gamma-ray flares have been detected in the last 40 years. A new paper on magnetars cracking themselves open could explain why. Source: https://www.livescience.com/weird-neutron-star-x-ray-pulse-figured-out.html
Woman reels in weird fish with two mouths
Debbie Geddes had been fishing in Lake Champlain with her husband when she caught this peculiar specimen. The bizarre fish, which is believed to be a … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329910/woman-reels-in-weird-fish-with-two-mouths…
Quantum weirdness isn’t real – we’ve just got space and time all wrong
A radical new idea erases quantum theory’s weird uncertainties – by ripping up all we thought we knew about how the universe works, says physicist Lee Smolin Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332440-600-quantum-weirdness-isnt-real-weve-just-got-space-and-time-all-wrong/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A massive collision may have made Jupiter’s core so weird
A few years ago we learned Jupiter’s core is much messier than expected. Now simulations suggest a huge collision with a planetary embryo could explain why Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213521-a-massive-collision-may-have-made-jupiters-core-so-weird/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A planetary body may have smashed into Jupiter, creating its weird core
A planetary body smashing into Jupiter may have jostled the gas giant’s insides during its formative years, creating the strange interior seen today. Source: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/jupiter-weird-core-may-have-resulted-early-collision4…
Want to Ask This Weird Material to Dance? Just Heat It Up.
Extremely hot materials show off their temperature by doing the twist. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hot-materials-that-twist.html
Weird microbe could answer one of the biggest mysteries of evolution
It took more than a decade, but scientists have now managed to grow and study a mysterious deep-sea microbe that could explain the origin of our cells Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213037-weird-microbe-could-answer-one-of-the-biggest-mysteries-of-evolution/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Mysterious signals from space could teach us how dark energy works
Weird bursts of radio waves from space could be used to measure cosmic distances, which would help us learn about dark energy and the universe’s expansion Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2212926-mysterious-signals-from-space-could-teach-us-how-dark-energy-works/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…