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What would you want to do with a cockroach? Most people would like to squash, smash, or burn the verminous pest, but scientists aren’t wired like that. Instead, a Japanese-led research team in Singapore has turned cockroaches into remote-operated brainless drones. By inserting probes into the roaches’ nervous systems, the scientists can pilot them around …
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Paleontology, or the study of extinct organisms, can be a tricky field. Often, researchers discover remnants of ancient creatures with absolutely indecipherable body structures. Those features are surprisingly commonly due to some kind of physical damage. After all, it’s easy for bones to crack and warp over millions upon millions of years, resulting in bizarre …
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Some families have a nemesis. It might be a neighbor, a distasteful distant cousin, or maybe an employer who mistreated one of the family members. Shanichara Bote’s family is different. Their archenemy is an elephant, and for a good reason. That elephant has killed four members of her family, despite them relocating to get away …
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A popular urban myth states that Coca-Cola (and other similar drinks) will dissolve a tooth within days. While that’s not true, cola drinks are acidic, and drinking too much can damage your teeth. But their acidity may have beneficial effects as well, as this woman’s case demonstrates. A Massachusetts woman reported to a hospital with …
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Remember Spaceballs? If that’s too old for you, it’s a 1987 sci-fi parody by Mel Brooks, featuring an evil spacefaring race called the Spaceballs. I’m bringing the movie up because it turns out that space balls are real. But they’re not as comically heinous as in the film. Recently, beachgoers discovered strange metallic spheres on …
With all the trust placed on them and the resources they have access to, bankers are often in a great position to embezzle money. There are many stories out there of bankers using ingenious methods to make off with thousands, if not millions, of dollars. This is not one of those cases. A South Korean …
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A celebrity has returned to Tasmania on his annual tour. This famous personality, however, is not a rock star, sportsperson, or politician. Instead, he’s Neal the Elephant Seal. For the last few years, Neal has crawled out of the ocean in southern Tasmania. He sticks around for a couple of weeks to shed his old …
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You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover or a crime scene by first impressions. That’s certainly true in this case, where Alabama police found a couple dead in the woods. What originally seemed like the result of some kind of tragic accident turned out to be something entirely different. It was murder. The bodies …
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From the darkness of the night, he strikes against no-good hoodlums. As morning arrives, the police find the criminals neatly wrapped in a package at their doorstep. The Batman of Lagos de Moreno has protected justice once again. This isn’t some DC comic spinoff. A real-life vigilante is hunting down petty criminals in the Mexican …
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Living in Florida really is like living in a Saturday morning cartoon. Recently, a classic slapstick gag played out on the state’s highways. Namely, a man pretending to be a police officer accidentally pulled over a real cop. Nadi Jabari has been arrested for illegal impersonation of a law enforcement officer. The 46-year-old allegedly activated …
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