bizarre Channel
- Prehistoric insects grew giant
May 07, 2008
Eons ago, dragonflies had the wingspan of a hawk and millipedes almost as long as a man crawled along forest floors. What happened to decrease the size of these gigantic arthropods? Hear from Arizona biologist Alexander Kaiser.
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- Study shows wine tastes better when costs more
Mar 17, 2008
Does some wine taste better just because it costs more? Scientists held a wine tasting inside an MRI scanner to find out.
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- Parasite disguises ant as berry
Mar 05, 2008
In May 2005, when searching for a colony of the ants in a downed tree on Panama’s Barro Colorado Island, scientists discovered a microscopic parasite – nematodes – that can disguise an ant as a berry.
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- Scientists celebrate 50 years of chickens
Feb 15, 2008
Canadian scientists recently threw a 50th birthday party for chickens – predecessors to the broilers eaten today. No actual chickens were in attendance. Instead, the scientists were celebrating 50 years of preserving a group of chickens’ genetic diversity.
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- Beatles song aimed at Polaris
Feb 04, 2008
(February 4, 2008) The Beatles’ hit song Across the Universe will become the first song ever to be beamed directly into space, NASA announced.
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- Blind cavefish given gift of sight
Jan 31, 2008
Twenty-nine caves in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental mountain range are home to a species of cavefish that have been blind for the past million years. Now, they can produce sighted offspring … that’s with a little help from scientists.
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Ask a Scientist
- How does the Venus flytrap know when to snap?:
What happens if you touch a Venus flytrap with a stick?
- How do you get rid of skunk odor?:
Can you really use tomato juice to get skunk odor out of a pet’s fur?
- What good is it to go bald?:
Is there a benefit to human males to lose hair from the top of their head?
- Faint sun paradox:
I’ve heard about something called the faint sun paradox. What is it?
- What is the speed of gravity?:
How long does it take one planet to feel the attraction of another planet?
- If the sun disappeared:
For eight-and-a-half minutes we’d have no idea that the sun had gone.
Blogs In Bizarre Category
Personal Helicopter
by Jeremy ShereThe iconic vision of the technological, space-age future used to be the personal jet pack--a strap-on device that would allow people to zip around the clouds, presumably wherever and whenever…
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- The Secret Life of Birdfeeders
by Jeremy ShereMy kids (two boys, 7-year-old-twins) recently made a bird feeder. We painted it, hung it up in the backyard, and waited for birds to come. Now that spring…
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- Lizard Evolution on the Quick
by Jeremy ShereEvolution is something happens over millions of years, right? Slowly, over eons of time, primates evolve into hominids, hominids in proto-humans, proto-humans into modern homo sapiens. But evolution…
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If Daylight Saving Time wasn't bad enough...
by Larry SessionsThere is so much controversy over Daylight Saving Time -- who benefits?, does it really save energy?, is it worth the hassle? -- that maybe we should dump it altogether…
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- Humanoid Robots and the Uncanny Valley
by Jeremy ShereScientists and engineers at MIT have created a new, experimental robot called Nexi that can appear to express human emotions like anger, surprise and sadness through a series of facial…
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