Tag Archives: Weird

LOS ANGELES — The Death Star is rolling now, friends. Another day, another victory by the Death Star Dodgers — this time Dodgers 3, Brewers 1, Thursday afternoon at raucous Dodger Stadium. So we’ve now seen three games in this National League Championship Series. The Dodgers have won all three — and the best way to explain why is to …

The weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field, a region over the South Atlantic where the field’s strength is significantly reduced compared to its surrounding area, has grown by an area nearly the size of the European continent over the past 11 years. Using data from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Swarm satellites, scientists revealed that the South Atlantic Anomaly has …

Honor is going all in on its “Alpha Plan” in a strange yet terrifying teaser video of its in-progress AI phone, the “Robot Phone.” In the process, the company makes design choices that bear striking resemblances to existing IPs. Alongside the Magic 8 series, Honor teased a new phone currently in the works. It’s built on AI, and it isn’t …

When you know a person for a long time, you get a sense of how they communicate. You understand why they chose one word instead of another and what emotion that subtle shift in tone is giving away. Our parents often fall into this category. However, Reddit user SlenderSelkie recently ended up in a situation with her father that she …

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Teoscar Hernández watched a replay of the bizarre double play from the NL Championship Series opener only one time as the clip went viral across social media. No further viewings were needed. “I saw it once,” for the Dodgers star said Tuesday, a day after Los Angeles overcame the 8-6-2 double play in a 2-1 win. “Once …

This amazing-looking galaxy is catalogued NGC 2775 and lies 67 million lightyears from Earth. In fact, it’s so far away – its light has taken so long to reach us – we’re looking at the galaxy as it appeared just before the extinction of the dinosaurs. Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) But the most interesting thing …

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has helped YouTuber Steve Mould with the final step in his “weird chain theory”: testing the idea in space. In 2013, YouTuber and science communicator Steve Mould brought the “chain fountain”, an unsolved problem in physics, to the attention of the wider public. The effect, sometimes referred to as the “Mould effect” for his work on …

Checks made out to Americans to the tune of $1,000-$2,000 may be on the horizon, President Donald Trump said recently in an interview with far-right television network One America News.  But experts say the checks would likely be inflationary. “It could kind of be a weird feedback loop where the tariff stimulus justifies passing on more tariff costs,” Chris Motola, …

A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveal that it’s spewing huge amounts of water — and astronomers can’t immediately explain why. The object, which is widely believed to be comet, showed strong ultraviolet emissions that are unmistakable telltales of hydroxyl gas (OH), a byproduct of water, when astronomers imaged it with the with NASA’s Neil Gehrels …

A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveal that it’s spewing huge amounts of water — and astronomers can’t immediately explain why. The object, which is widely believed to be comet, showed strong ultraviolet emissions that are unmistakable telltales of hydroxyl gas (OH), a byproduct of water, when astronomers imaged it with the with NASA’s Neil Gehrels …