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First 'Art' Painted by Humanoid Robot Sells for over $1 Million

"A portrait of English mathematician Alan Turing has become the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction, fetching US$1.08m (£566,000, A$1.63m) in New York on Thursday..."
Posted: 14 November 2024 - Category: Weird Science - Source: theguardian.com
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Anti-aging Elixir Could Be Hiding in 'Indestructible' Tardigrades

"Scientists studying the mysterious creatures called tardigrades may have found a new possible tool in their quest to slow human aging..."
Posted: 28 March 2024 - Category: Weird Science - Source: dailymail.co.uk
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Bizarre 'Halo' Device Claims to Help Lucid Dreaming

"Lucid dreaming is the act of being aware that you're in a dream and sometimes being able to control what happens..."
Posted: 05 December 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: thesun.co.uk
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Scientists Close in on Fifth Force of Nature

"Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature..."
Posted: 10 August 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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Physics Defying 'Quantum Drive' Will Fly to Orbit This Year

"US company IVO Ltd., a wireless power technology firm, is set to send an all-electric propulsion system for satellites to space for the first time in October..."
Posted: 19 July 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: interestingengineering.com
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Plans Unveiled for Real Life 'Noah's Ark' Floating City

"Tech boffins have unveiled plans for a bizarre floating city likened to a real life Noah's Ark. The ocean-based metropolis would provide a 'self-sufficient habitat' for 40,000 people, designers in Japan say..."
Posted: 19 June 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: the-sun.com
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Science Breakthrough Generates Electricity from 'Thin Air'

"Scientists have invented a device that can continuously generate electricity from thin air, offering a glimpse of a possible sustainable energy source that can be made of almost any material..."
Posted: 29 May 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: vice.com
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Connecticut 'Witches' Exonerated by Senate Lawmakers

"Connecticut lawmakers have voted to exonerate 12 people more than 370 years after they were convicted of witchcraft in colonial America..."
Posted: 29 May 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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Scientists Unlock Effect of Psychedelic Drug on the Human Brain

"Dimethyltryptamine, or DMT, is a powerful psychedelic whose effect on the human brain lasts for only some minutes, but in that short span of time, the user experiences some high-level mental changes..."
Posted: 21 March 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: interestingengineering.com
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Scientists Aim to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth by 2027

"Scientists are now aiming to bring the woolly mammoth out of extinction by the year 2027, using technology that will edit the genes for the animal, bringing it back into the world..."
Posted: 31 January 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: giantfreakinrobot.com
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Scientists Reverse Ageing in Mice Using DNA 'Backup Reboot'

"In Boston labs, old, blind mice have regained their eyesight, developed smarter, younger brains and built healthier muscle and kidney tissue..."
Posted: 19 January 2023 - Category: Weird Science - Source: edition.cnn.com
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Scientists Design Algorithm That 'Reads' People's Thoughts

"Scientists can now 'decode' people's thoughts without even touching their heads, The Scientist reported (opens in new tab)..."
Posted: 25 October 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: livescience.com
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Cancer Drug Emerges as Powerful Anti-aging Remedy

"A drug that patients normally take during cancer therapy may have the power to increase the human lifespan, a new study reveals..."
Posted: 30 August 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: studyfinds.org
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Google's AI Has Become Self-aware, Claims Suspended Engineer

"Last year at Google I/O, the company introduced its conversational LaMDA AI, short for Language Model for Dialogue Applications..."
Posted: 14 June 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: androidpolice.com
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'Quantum Internet' Moves a Step Closer after Entanglement Demo

"Researchers in the Netherlands have shown they can transmit quantum information via an intermediary node, a feature necessary to make the so-called quantum internet possible..."
Posted: 31 May 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: theregister.com
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Study Suggests Sound Waves Can Destroy Cancer Cells

"Scientists from the University of Michigan have found an inventive way of getting rid of liver tumors for good. Their latest animal study shows that noninvasive sound technology effectively destroys 50 to 75 percent of the cancerous mass..."
Posted: 26 April 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: studyfinds.org
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Shock Result in Particle Experiment Could Re-write Physics

"Scientists just outside Chicago have found that the mass of a sub-atomic particle is not what it should be..."
Posted: 12 April 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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Researchers Rejuvinate Woman's Skin Cells by Thirty Years

"Researchers have rejuvenated a 53-year-old woman's skin cells so they are the equivalent of a 23-year-old's..."
Posted: 12 April 2022 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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Physicists Create New State of Matter from Weird 'Quantum Soup'

"Scientists have spotted a long hypothesized, never-seen-before state of matter in the laboratory for the first time..."
Posted: 14 December 2021 - Category: Weird Science - Source: livescience.com
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Neuralink Paper: Should We Prepare for the Digital Afterlife?

"Over a decade ago I was very interested in the concept of neuro search - searching for objects or concepts by thinking about them and even published a paper and got a patent granted before starting a company..."
Posted: 19 June 2021 - Category: Weird Science - Source: forbes.com
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Scientists Find a Loophole in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle

"Quantum mechanics has brought its fair share of disquieting revelations, from the idea that objective reality is an illusion to the realization that objects can be in two states at once..."
Posted: 18 May 2021 - Category: Weird Science - Source: livescience.com
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Scientists Create Gene-editing Tool More Advanced Than CRISPR

"Researchers from the Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have created a new gene-editing tool that can enable scientists to perform millions of genetic experiments simultaneously..."
Posted: 03 May 2021 - Category: Weird Science - Source: engadget.com
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Scientists Claim to Partially Reverse Ageing Process in Humans

"Every time a cell inside your body replicates, a slither of your youth crumbles to dust. This occurs via the shortening of telomeres, structures that 'cap' the tips of our chromosomes..."
Posted: 21 November 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: sciencealert.com
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Physicists Succeed in Generating 'Limitless' Power from Graphene

"A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current..."
Posted: 08 October 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: phys.org
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Mind-bending 'Rhythm' in the Brain Can Act Like Ketamine

"Out-of-body experiences are all about rhythm, a team reported Wednesday in the journal Nature. In mice and one person, scientists were able to reproduce the altered state often associated with ketamine by inducing certain brain cells to fire together in a slow, rhythmic fashion..."
Posted: 17 September 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: npr.org
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Swedish Scientists Use VR to 'Swap Bodies' in Weird Experiment

"Swedish researchers have successfully created an out-of-body experience in which they 'swapped participants' bodies..."
Posted: 01 September 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: rt.com
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'Quantum Critical Point' Could Be Gateway to 'Strange Phenomena'

"Among all the curious states of matter that can coexist in a quantum material, jostling for preeminence as temperature..."
Posted: 01 September 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: phys.org
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Neuralink Chip Could Allow Superhuman Hearing

"The mysterious Neuralink chip was previously in the headlines when the founder of the company, Elon Musk, said that the chip will be able to stream music straight into the wearer's brain--and now, the tech CEO has revealed more details about it..."
Posted: 04 August 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: techtimes.com
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New 'Uncuttable' Material Created by Researchers

"Every substance we know of is cuttable, even diamonds—until now. Engineers have developed a material they call 'Proteus' that they claim is the first manufactured uncuttable material..."
Posted: 30 July 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: techspot.com
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Fifth State of Matter Created in Space by NASA

"In primary school they teach us that solid, liquid and gaseous are the three states of matter, as we advance in our studies we discover that there is one more called plasma..."
Posted: 16 June 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: explica.co
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Space Tech Used to Build the 'Most Sustainable' Home on Earth

"The eco-habitat, which is a fancy word to describe a completely self-sustainable home, is called TERA and comes from the team of architects and designers known as AI SpaceFactory..."
Posted: 13 April 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: autoevolution.com
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Scientists Develop Robot Hand That 'Sweats'

"The revolutionary 3D-printed robot hand developed by researchers at Cornell University can do something that Prince Andrew apparently can't..."
Posted: 02 February 2020 - Category: Weird Science - Source: dailystar.co.uk
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Military Camouflage Developer Unveils 'Invisibility Cloak'

"The idea of invisibility has been toyed with in a bunch of movies and TV shows. Whether it's Harry Potter's invisibility cloak that allows him to walk around the halls of Hogwarts undetected..."
Posted: 22 October 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: ladbible.com
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Has This Scientist Finally Found the Fountain of Youth?

"The black mouse on the screen sprawls on its belly, back hunched, blinking but otherwise motionless. Its organs are failing. It appears to be days away from death..."
Posted: 24 August 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: technologyreview.com
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First Human-monkey Chimera Raises Concern Among Scientists

"Efforts to create human-animal chimeras have rebooted an ethical debate after reports emerged that scientists have produced monkey embryos containing human cells..."
Posted: 08 August 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: theguardian.com
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Sun's Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory

"The twisting loops of the sun's magnetic field control the flow of charged particles throughout the solar system. For the first time, researchers have created a scale model of this mysterious environment..."
Posted: 29 July 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: quantamagazine.org
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First Image of 'Spooky' Entanglement Reveals 'All Seeing Eye'

"Scientists have captured the first ever image of a phenomenon which Albert Einstein once described as 'spooky action at a distance'..."
Posted: 13 July 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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A Third Genetically Edited Baby May Have Already Been Born

"Another genetically edited baby is due, but the world may never learn of its birth if the Chinese government decides to keep it a secret..."
Posted: 06 July 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: technologyreview.com
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Physicists Create Hybrid 'Particles': Part-Matter, Part-Light

"Photons - those fundamental particles of light - have a slew of interesting properties, including the fact they don't tend to crash into one another. That hasn't stopped physicists from trying, though..."
Posted: 06 July 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: sciencealert.com
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Strange Group of Quantum Particles Found to Defy Entropy

"Nothing lasts forever. Humans, planets, stars, galaxies, maybe even the Universe itself, everything has an expiration date. But things in the quantum realm don't always follow the rules..."
Posted: 17 June 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: sciencealert.com
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Scientists Create 'Alien' Form of Super Hot Ice

"In Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction classic Cat's Cradle, the protagonist learns of a bizarre form of water known as 'ice-nine' which is solid at room temperature..."
Posted: 11 May 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: cnet.com
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Pig Brains Partially Revived Four Hours after Death

"US scientists have partially revived pig brains four hours after the animals were slaughtered..."
Posted: 18 April 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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Scientists Uncover DNA Switch for 'Full Body Regeneration'

"Humans may one day have the ability to regrow limbs after scientists at Harvard University uncovered the DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration..."
Posted: 16 March 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: sg.news.yahoo.com
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Possible Anti-ageing Breakthrough Eliminates 'Zombie' Cells

"Scientists have made a huge anti-ageing breakthrough which could help humans to extend their lifespans and battle diseases such as Alzheimer's..."
Posted: 12 January 2019 - Category: Weird Science - Source: express.co.uk
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Biohacker Teen Injects Himself with 'Holy' DNA

"A French teenager with an interest in biohacking recently performed a rather strange experiment in which he injected himself with DNA derived from holy texts..."
Posted: 21 December 2018 - Category: Weird Science - Source: coasttocoastam.com
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Quantum Paradox 'Thought Experiment' Helps to Clarify Reality

"That quantum mechanics is a successful theory is not in dispute. It makes astonishingly accurate predictions about the nature of the world at microscopic scales..."
Posted: 06 December 2018 - Category: Weird Science - Source: quantamagazine.org
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Scientists Create 'Bionic Mushroom' to Generate Clean Energy

"US researchers have successfully tested the rather whacky idea of producing electricity from a mushroom covered in bacteria. The scientists used 3D printing to attach clusters of energy-producing bugs to the cap of a button mushroom..."
Posted: 08 November 2018 - Category: Weird Science - Source: bbc.co.uk
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'Schrödinger's Bacterium' May Be a Quantum Leap for Biology

"The quantum world is a weird one. In theory and to some extent in practice its tenets demand that a particle can appear to be in two places at once..."
Posted: 30 October 2018 - Category: Weird Science - Source: scientificamerican.com
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Chinese City 'Plans to Launch Artificial Moon'

"In Chengdu, there is reportedly an ambitious plan afoot for replacing the city's streetlights: boosting the glow of the real moon with that of a more powerful fake one..."
Posted: 19 October 2018 - Category: Weird Science - Source: theguardian.com
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Woolly Mammoth Cloning Plans Approved in Siberia

"Extinct woolly mammoths could be brought back to life in the next 10 years according to the head of a Russian territory which has approved a major planned cloning project..."
Posted: 24 September 2018 - Category: Weird Science - Source: express.co.uk
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