Where is the most haunted place in Cambridge?

Saturday, September 26, 2020

From its marshy beginnings at the edge of the fens, Cambridge has been a liminal place where boundaries between land and water, solid and spectral, are blurred.

— Cambridge Independent

Man dies after eating bag of licorice every day for a few weeks

Saturday, September 26, 2020

A Massachusetts construction worker's love of black licorice wound up costing him his life, doctors say.

— The Guardian

Alexander Fleming's original penicillin fungus is regrown by scientists

Saturday, September 26, 2020

The penicillin mold accidentally grown by physician and microbiologist Alexander Fleming in London in 1928 has had its genome sequenced for the first time.

— Mail Online

5G wireless radiation 'leakage' may lead to incorrect weather forecasts

Saturday, September 26, 2020

A new study finds radiation “leakage” from 5G networks may throw off weather satellites, giving you a bad forecast.

— Study Finds

Russian scientist claims team battled creature under Antarctic ice

Saturday, September 26, 2020

A defecting Russian scientist has surfaced with a mind-bending account of what really occurred when he and his colleagues went missing for five days in a mysterious lake 12,366 feet beneath the Antarctic ice.

— Yahoo! News

'Giant impact' theory of moon's formation gets another boost

Friday, September 25, 2020

Scientists have found yet more differences between Earth and moon rocks.

— Space.com

Mysterious Horse Mutilations in Europe Spread to Sweden

Friday, September 25, 2020

Many European news sources report that the first Swedish horse mutilation took place about a month ago.

— Mysterious Universe

Cult leader who claims to be reincarnation of Jesus arrested in Russia

Friday, September 25, 2020

Former traffic officer Sergei Torop, AKA Vissarion, arrested in special operation in Siberia.

— The Guardian

Twinkling, star-shaped brain cells may hold the key to why, how we sleep

Friday, September 25, 2020

Astrocytes could be as important to the regulation of sleep as neurons, the brain's nerve cells.

— Medical Xpress

Gold miners discover 100 million-year-old meteorite crater Down Under

Friday, September 25, 2020

The meteorite may have been longer than two football fields.

— Live Science

Could life exist deep underground on Mars?

Thursday, September 24, 2020

Beyond the the planet's surface, there is potential for life deep in the subsurface biosphere.

— Phys Org

Egypt tomb: Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara

Thursday, September 24, 2020

A total of 27 sarcophagi have been unearthed by archaeologists in an ancient Egyptian necropolis.

— BBC News

'Tesla was from Venus' claims FBI document

Thursday, September 24, 2020

A rather peculiar claim concerning Nikola Tesla has been found in the archives of the FBI's official website.

— Unexplained Mysteries

Teenage Girl Allegedly Cries Blood And Doctors Have No Idea Why

Thursday, September 24, 2020

A 15-year-old Brazilian girl has baffled doctors after allegedly crying blood from her eyes for over a week.

— Oddity Central

RV-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than the moon

Thursday, September 24, 2020

This asteroid isn't socially distancing with Earth very well.

— Live Science

The Mysterious Case of the Missing 250-Ton Chinese Power Transformer

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

In May, the Trump administration seized a $3 million transformer on its way to Colorado. What happened to it, and where is it now?

— Motherboard

The Quantum Butterfly Noneffect

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

A familiar concept from chaos theory turns out to work differently in the quantum world.

— Scientific American

Hiding a 10,000 Year Clock inside a Mountain

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The idea began back in 1989 with Danny Hillis, a polymath inventor, computer theorist, engineer, and designer.

— Messy Nessy

1,000-Year-Old Precursor to Stainless Steel Found in Iran, Surprising Archaeologists

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

New evidence suggests ancient Persians stumbled upon an early version of the metallic alloy.

— Gizmodo

'Grand claims' of life on Venus lack evidence, skeptics say

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

— Live Science

How Hallucinogens May Enhance Your Psychic Powers

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

How could LSD, mushrooms, etc, enhance ESP?

— High Times

'Storm Area 51' Event Resonates One Year Later

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Tiny town still affected by the hype.

— Las Vegas Review-Journal

Ancient Sites Show Evidence of Possible Beer Brewing Activity

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Burned grain may be signs of 5000-year-old beer production.

— The Scientist

Is Joe Exotic's Zoo Haunted?

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Ghost Adventures to investigate infamous Tiger King location.

— Film Daily

Coffin Made of Mushrooms Debuts

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

‘the living cocoon enables people to become one with nature again and to enrich the soil’

— Design Boom

Why Are Migratory and Songbirds Dropping Dead Out of the Skies in New Mexico and Southwestern Colorado?

Monday, September 21, 2020

The phenomenon does not appear to be related to temperature change or smoke exposure.

— Earthfiles

What Is the Sound of Thought?

Monday, September 21, 2020

Why do we include the sounds of words in our thoughts when we think without speaking?

— The MIT Press Reader

‘Vertical Forest’ in Chinese Residential Complex Becomes Mosquito-Infested Jungle

Monday, September 21, 2020

The Qiyi City Forest Garden residential complex in Chengdu, China, was supposed to be a green paradise for its residents.

— Oddity Central

Mysterious Tales of Fire Elementals

Monday, September 21, 2020

Throughout the ages many cultures have spoken of certain types of nature elementals.

— Mysterious Universe

Facial reconstruction reveals Egyptian 'mummy portrait' was accurate except for one detail

Monday, September 21, 2020

Young boy in portrait died at the turn of the first millennium.

— Live Science