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Science Oddities » Blog Archive » Iapetus – Saturn’s bizarre moon

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It's weird science, man. Iapetus – Saturn’s bizarre moon. It’s Yin-Yang. Except in space. And with more than one little doubt surrounded by enemy colors. Iapetus is Saturn’s most bizarre moon because of its starkly contrasting hemispheres one is black as coal, the other white as snow. Why and how did Iapetus get its yin-yang appearance? The answer could also shine light on how other moons formed in the early universe. Using pictures taken by Cassini, particularly during a September 2007 close fly-by, the...

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Science Oddities » Dinosaurs

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It's weird science, man. Articles in the Dinosaurs Category. Horny dinosaur found in ‘lost continent’ of Laramidia (aka Utah). 22 Sep 2010 No Comment. The study, funded in large part by the Bureau of Land Management and the National …. Haplocheirus sollers: Bird-like dinosaur has a claw for a hand. 23 Jan 2010 No Comment. A girl frozen in time: the 18-year-old toddler. Scientists who collect intestinal microbes. Ovulating Women Have Better Gaydar. The unicycling clown phenomenon. Pac-man seen in space.

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Science Oddities » Quantum Madness

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It's weird science, man. Articles in the Quantum Madness Category. Random lasers can be made of junk shaken together. 24 Jan 2010 No Comment. 10 years ago, University of Utah scientists said they discovered a new kind of laser. Their laser was generated by an electrically conducting plastic or polymer but no one could explain how it worked and some doubted it was real. 8230; they say their lasers may be useful in diagnosing cancer. Hubbard physics and cuprates – they don’t work, except they do. Cuprates ...

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Science Oddities » Blog Archive » The bizarre lives of bone-eating worms

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Science Oddities » Strange Behavior

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It's weird science, man. Articles in the Strange Behavior Category. The unicycling clown phenomenon. 9 Sep 2010 One Comment. Compared with individuals walking alone, in …. A girl frozen in time: the 18-year-old toddler. Scientists who collect intestinal microbes. Ovulating Women Have Better Gaydar. Horny dinosaur found in ‘lost continent’ of Laramidia (aka Utah). The unicycling clown phenomenon. The unicycling clown phenomenon. The unicycling clown phenomenon. Pac-man seen in space.

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Science Oddities » Blog Archive » Horny dinosaur found in ‘lost continent’ of Laramidia (aka Utah)

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It's weird science, man. Horny dinosaur found in ‘lost continent’ of Laramidia (aka Utah). Were announced today in. The bigger of the two new dinosaurs, with a skull 2.3 meters (about 7 feet) long, is. Has short and blunt eye horns that project strongly to the side rather than upward, much more like the horns of modern bison than those of. Or other ceratopsians. Mark Loewen, one of the authors on the paper, likened. To “a giant rhino with a ridiculously supersized head.”. Second of the new species is.

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Science Oddities » Blog Archive » Haplocheirus sollers: Bird-like dinosaur has a claw for a hand

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It's weird science, man. Haplocheirus sollers: Bird-like dinosaur has a claw for a hand. 8220;Haplocheirus is a transitional fossil, because it shows an early evolutionary step in how the bizarre hands of later alvarezsaurs evolved from earlier predatory dinosaurs,” said Mr. Choiniere. “The fossil also confirms our predictions that Alvarezsauridae should have been evolving in the Late Jurassic time period.”. Theropod dinosaurs include charismatic, meat-eaters like Tyrannosaurus rex but also modern birds&...

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Science Oddities » Blog Archive » Pac-man seen in space

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It's weird science, man. Pac-man seen in space. A temperature map of Saturn’s icy moon, Mimas, reveal surprising patterns on the surface of the small moon, including hot regions that look like “Pac-Man” eating a dot – surely a science oddity if there ever was one. That’s not the only strange thing. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft did its closest flyby of Mimas and also saw the enormous Herschel Crater scar, which resembles the Death Star from “Star Wars.”. Even if surface texture variations are to blame, scien...

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Science Oddities » Brains

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It's weird science, man. Articles in the Brains Category. Ovulating Women Have Better Gaydar. 8 Aug 2011 No Comment. A woman can better identify a man’s sexual orientation when she is closest to peak ovulation, and she can do it just by looking at his face and not even seeing his fabulous interior decorating skills, according to a new study. Proof – ovulating women gaydar doesn’t work …. Creativity and/or schizophrenia: Thanks, dopamine. 23 May 2010 No Comment. High creative skills have been shown to be ...