WEIRD FACTS
Scientists have identified a peptide that could potentially have helped kickstart life on Earth. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2023 Mar 14 – One of the most profound mysteries facing science is how exactly life arose from non-living matter. Now, scientists have pinpointed a …
Years of research pays off for PhD student Ashleigh Kropp (left) and Rhys Grinter. Jordan Robson/Monash University – By Bronwyn Thompson 2023 Mar 09 – While most of us will never bear witness to them, many of the world’s smallest organisms have some incredible …
The entrance at the headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses Germany. Britta Pedersen/picture alliance via Getty Images – By Mathew Schmalz, Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross Published 2023 Mar 10 – Six adults were killed 2023 Mar 09, in Hamburg, …
Daylight saving time is back again – amid some controversy. billhagolan/iStock via Getty Images Plus – By Beth Ann Malow, Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Published: 2023 Mar 06 – As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead …
The median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Kingston hit $1,615 this year – roughly 25% more expensive than three years ago. Photograph: Wilfred Chan – In Kingston, New York, tenants say their survival depends on the city ordering a rent reduction – …
A new advanced membrane can filter sewage or seawater into drinking water – and generate electricity in the process. KIST View gallery – 3 images – By Loz Blain 2023 Mar 07 – In a highly unexpected approach to renewable energy, researchers in Korea …
Visible from space, an explosion of harmful seaweed now stretches like a sea monster across the ocean. Could robots save us from it – and store carbon in the process? A sargassum ‘landing event’ on a beach in the Gulf of México. The …
UK researchers have investigated the origins of coulrophobia, or fear of clowns, with some surprising results Depositphotos – By Paul McClure 2023 Mar 06 – Pennywise, Twisty, Wrinkles, Bozo, Krusty and Ronald McDonald. What do these names have in common? They’re all clowns, and, …
A new material has exhibited colossal magnetoresistance, switching its electrical conductivity by a billion percent in response to a magnetic field. Depositphotos – By Michael Irving 2023 Feb 26 – Scientists at Georgia Tech have discovered a new quantum state in a quirky material. …
What began as a real-estate advertisement has since been the site of tragedy, triumph and plenty of pranks. The actor Michelle Yeoh in midair over the Hollywood sign in November 1998. Photograph: Joe McNally/Getty Images – By Lois Beckett in Los Angeles Last …
