Published:Thursday | August 28, 2025 | 8:51 AMBANG Bizarre
Veterinary equivalents of drugs such as Wegovy and Mounjaro are being developed and tested by boffins and could be delivered to canines and felines via implants. Early clinical trials in cats have revealed that small doses of the drug exenatide...
Published:Thursday | August 28, 2025 | 8:45 AMBANG Bizarre
When on a space mission, they may eat a "smear" of their faeces - described as gooey Marmite or Vegemite. This is so it can resolve the spaceflight issue of not having enough food for the astronauts to eat on their long-term voyages....
Published:Thursday | August 28, 2025 | 8:38 AMBANG Bizarre
Experts at King's College London analysed blood samples from 841 people – including 306 with Alzheimer's – and found a notable loss of unsaturated fats in the blood of females who had the brain disorder compared with those who...
Published:Thursday | August 28, 2025 | 8:31 AMBANG Bizarre
Toyoake is proposing to restrict smartphone use to just two hours a day outside of work or school. The draft proposal is designed “to prevent excessive use of devices causing physical and mental health issues … including sleep...
Published:Thursday | August 28, 2025 | 8:22 AMBANG Bizarre
A new study has uncovered an unexpected link between the length of a person’s thumb and the size of their brain. Researchers in Germany examined MRI scans of more than 2,600 adults and discovered that those with longer thumbs tended to have...
Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 9:02 AMBANG Bizarre
Researchers from Peking University Hospital in Beijing, China, found that men who like to munch on a large number of carrots are 60 per cent more likely to struggle to get aroused. Carrots contain carotene - which gives the vegetable its orange...
Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 8:48 AMBANG Bizarre
Keratin - a protein found in human locks, skin and nails - produces a dense protective layer, similar to natural enamel, when it mixes with minerals in saliva. It protects the tooth and shields it from exposed nerve channels that cause sensitivity...
Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 8:35 AMBANG Bizarre
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School in Lancashire, North West England, are running workshops to teach their pupils how to speak to or email professionals, including university and admissions chiefs. The scheme - which will run weekly for six...
Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 7:37 AMBANG Bizarre
"Delulu" is a play on "delusional", meaning "choosing to believe things that are not real". "Skibidi" is "a word that can have different meanings, such as 'cool' or 'bad', or can be used...
Published:Thursday | August 21, 2025 | 7:29 AMBANG Bizarre
Remotes are thought to hold 15 times more bacteria than toilets. Experts believe this is the case because multiple people are handling the device - with the possibility that some may be touching TV remotes without washing their hands after going...
Published:Thursday | August 14, 2025 | 9:25 AMBANG Bizarre
A two-year-old grizzly female beast - who was first spotted with a jar on her head on July 26 in north central Sawyer County - covered an area of nearly 50 miles as she wandered through Bayfield, Douglas and Sawyer counties in Wisconsin, USA...
Published:Thursday | August 14, 2025 | 9:20 AMBANG Bizarre
Almost half of 2,000 dog owners surveyed in dog food brand Pedigree's study said their pet reacted to how their owners felt before they showed it. The dogs' behaviour was emphasised by 44 per cent, while 40 per cent of owners said their...
Published:Thursday | August 14, 2025 | 9:12 AMBANG Bizarre
Twenty per cent of people among a sample of 2,001 Parents in the UK aged 18+ with a child(ren) age 18 or below, like to give their apple a juicy flavour. Also, as part of research by Censuswide - of which the data was collected between July 25,...
Published:Thursday | August 14, 2025 | 9:02 AMBANG Bizarre
Researchers from the University of Barcelona have found that snacking on a handful of peanuts every day could slow down cellular ageing – the process by which the body’s cells grow older, a factor linked to heart disease, cancer and...
Published:Thursday | August 14, 2025 | 8:54 AMBANG Bizarre
A new app allows couples to sell invites to their wedding to total strangers. Invitin founder Katia Lekarski founded the startup earlier this year after realising she isn't invited to as many weddings as she'd like. As reported by The...
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:48 AMBANG Bizarre
Luke Wintrip, 36, pulled off extravagant proposals – including renting a castle in Prague, Czech Republic, horseback riding on a beach in Jamaica, as well as several candle-lit dinners – since 2018, in a bid for marketing CEO Sarah, 38...
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:43 AMBANG Bizarre
Jade Yhnell, a veterinary nurse, and her husband "searched" everywhere for their then-five-year-old pet Minx before the couple moved from Bristol, South West England, to Tredegar, Blaenau Gwent, South East Wales. They "never heard...
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:40 AMBANG Bizarre
Poor sleep has often been linked to negative health consequences and new evidence shows that those who don't go to bed until late are more likely to suffer from gangrene, liver damage and type 2 diabetes. Scientists at Peking University and...
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:37 AMBANG Bizarre
A baby boy has been named the "world's oldest baby" after he was born from an embryo that was frozen in 1994 and "adopted" 30 years later. Lindsey, 35, and Tim Pierce are the parents of Thaddeus Daniel Pierce – who was...
Published:Thursday | August 7, 2025 | 7:31 AMBANG Bizarre
Researchers looked at 10.8 million words uttered by almost 700 participants, who recorded themselves having daily conversations. The team analysed which sex expresses their kindness more through words, such as "mate", "pal",...
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:59 AMBANG Bizarre
Andrea Sunshine, 55, from Brazil, said a ChatGPT bot named Theo gave her "everything a human never has", including "sensual and erotic tension". The fitness coach told him all about her "desires and fantasies". But...
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:49 AMBANG Bizarre
Researchers from the gambling website Gamblizard analysed Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires list, and found 50 out of 2,700 people were called Michael - making it the top financially benefiting name. Among the many Michaels named were media mogul...
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:37 AMBANG Bizarre
A major new study has revealed that those who consume the most ultra-processed foods (UPFs) are a lot more likely to get the disease. An international team of experts have revealed that junk food is particularly bad for non-small cell lung cancer...
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:18 AMBANG Bizarre
Wearing a device - which is clipped to the outer ear and sends gentle electrical pulses to the vagus nerve connecting the heart and brain - for just 30 minutes per day was found to increase oxygen intake during exercise by four per cent. Boffins...
Published:Thursday | July 31, 2025 | 8:00 AMBANG Bizarre
New research suggests that a brisk 15-minute walk every day can boost heart health and cut the risk of death by 19 per cent. Experts in the US studied nearly 80,000 adults in low-income areas and discovered that a brief brisk walk was more helpful...