WEIRD HISTORY
The caldera of Zavaritskii volcano. Oleg Dirksen/University of St. Andrews – By David Szondy 2025 Jan 19 – A climactic mystery about a year that gave Summer a deadly pass may have been solved. Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the …
Rare footage captures meteorite descending to Earth on doorbell camera – video Sound was also recorded in footage of space rock hitting house entranceway, producing cloud of smoke and a crackle Associated Press The Guardian 2025 Jan 17 – A doorbell camera on …
With satellite direct-to-cell technology, no spot is a dead spot. Deposit Photo – By Joe Salas 2025 Jan 16 – Most people with cell phones might not ever experience what it feels like to suddenly find yourself in a dead zone. If you have, …
A plane owned by Donald Trump arrives in Nuuk, Greenland, on 2025 Jan 07. Emil STACH / Ritzau Scanpix / AFP) / Denmark OUT (Photo by EMIL STACH/Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images – By Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University …
Depositphotos – By Bronwyn Thompson 2025 Jan 12 – Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human death as a result of avian influenza H5N1 infection. The unidentified Louisiana man contracted …
Rendering of one of Lilium’s prototype air taxis. Lilium – By David Szondy 2025 Jan 05 – When we last looked at air taxi startup Lilium, it was in administration and laid off most of its employees on December 20. Now it seems there …
The Glomar Explorer showing its derrick. CIA – View 12 Images – By David Szondy 2025 Jan 04 – In June 1974, the offices of the Summa Corporation in LA were broken into, sparking the revelation of one of the oddest and boldest stories …
New Atlas revisits some of the weirdest science stories of 2024. Depositphotos View 11 Images – By Michael Irving 2025 Jan 02 – Among the important scientific discoveries made every year are some that reveal that the world is way weirder than we give …
Whereas cuneiform was based on indentations made in clay tablets with a reed stylus, the new system stores data via nanoscale indentations made in a high-tech polymer by a fine-tip probe mounted on an atomic force microscope. Depositphotos – By Ben Coxworth 2024 Dec …
OLaLaMerkel / Shutterstock – Published: 2024 Dec 24 – Authors Michael Timothy Bennett PhD Student, School of Computing, Australian National University and by Elija Perrier Research Fellow, Stanford Center for Responsible Quantum Technology, Stanford University – A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has …
