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Strange Science: Cargo Ships Sink Due to Liquefaction
Liquefaction is the term used when a solid, such as soil, behaves as a liquid. This is most often something that occurs during seismic activity, like an earthquake, but it can also happen any time that a sudden change in … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Kangaroos in Austria?
Kangaroos live in Australia, not Austria. But since 2015, there have been four incidents of kangaroos being spotted in Austria, far from their native lands. Some of the kangaroos spotted in Austria have been pets that got loose. (Who knew … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Bees as Interior Designers?
Scientists in Turkey and Iran have identified a species of bees that creates nests for their eggs out of mud and flower petals, making beautiful small cocoons in which their young grow! The Osmia (Ozbekosima) avoseta bee constructs these delicate cocoons, fills … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Ghost Particles and Their Origins
Astronomers have long been hoping to observe an object outside of our solar system that emits neutrinos, or ghost particles, and now they have! Neutrinos are referred to as “ghost particles” because they don’t often interact with any type of … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Fun Facts about Stars
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration does more than just launch spaceships. They also do a significant amount of research on our solar system and beyond. One of their key fields of research is on stars. In addition to giving … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Superbug Yeast
Scientists are currently faced with a yeast that is behaving like a bacteria, making it difficult to fight with the drugs currently available. Candida auris is a yeast and a fungus, but its behavior is atypical. Normally yeasts need warm, moist … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Massive Black Sarcophagus Found
Archaeologists in Alexandria, Egypt, recently located a massive black granite sarcophagus likely from the Ptolemaic period (roughly 2,000 years ago). The sarcophagus was uncovered while preparing a site for a new building, but now researchers are faced with several problems. … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Robots Helping Plants
It’s hard to count how many plants we at Mad Scientist Journal may have killed over the years. The most recent (and epic) was the air plant that died under our care. It’s an air plant. All it needed was … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Flying Spiders
Warning, today’s post contains spiders. Young spiders often use strands of their silk to “balloon” from place to place, but scientists have recently discovered that spiders are also able to use electrical fields to travel vast distances, sometimes hundreds of … Continue reading
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Strange Science: Regions of the Brain Involved in Dreaming
Science has long believed that in the human brain, dreams largely occurred during the rapid eye-movement (REM) phase of sleep, but scientists studying dreams recently have learned that different types of dreams occur in different parts of the brain, and … Continue reading
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