June 2009 Archives
NASA's Mars rover Spirit is stuck.
The little rover-who-could has been unable to move on the planet's surface for the last couple of months after it got hung up on a rock.
Hooking up with a long-term partner is a one-way journey to the land of expanding waistlines - it's official.
A new study from the University of North Carolina showed married people are more likely to become obese than those who are just dating.
Australian scientists have come with a new therapy to combat cancer using the good old 'Trojan Horse' technique.
They've developed a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs.
Poppy growers in Tasmania are fed up with waking up to flattened circles in their fields.
The phenomenon has been well known for years and has inspired legends whispered around camp fires late at night. Aliens? A mythical beast?
Ever wanted to know what it's like living on the very bottom of the world?
This cool video gives you a high-speed taste of a year in the Antarctic - keep an eye out for some spectacular Southern Lights.
A couple of weeks ago Weird Science was pondering the chance of life on Jupiter's moon Europa.
As this spectacular photo of ice plumes on Saturn's tiny companion Enceladus shows, we might have been looking in the wrong place.
Just a smidgen over 100 years ago there was a really big bang in Tunguska, central Siberia.
The blast is thought to have been 1,000 times more powerful as the bomb dropped over Hiroshima.
The earliest known ancestor to big-eared dumbos have been discovered - and they're not the most imposing of creatures.
In fact, they're the size of a pet rabbit.
Ever played Wii Fit? The game measures your Body Mass Index (BMI), if you fall into the overweight range the computer version of you will expand like a balloon.
Well fear not, the Register reports being a bit chubby will mean you'll outlive the fitness freaks.
Posh Spice, Paris Hilton, countless reality TV stars... you can find details of their vacant adventures in our newspapers and magazines every day.
These celebs are famous for being famous (have you heard Posh sing?). But why?
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
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