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Hiding with a Chance of Meatballs
Episode 373
Ikea is urging teenagers to stop creeping into its stores and having illegal sleepovers. About 10 "non-sponsored sleepovers" have been logged across …
9 years, 3 months ago
What's in Bad Movie?
Episode 372
Hundreds of people online have shared memories of a cheesy Nineties movie called “Shazaam”, in which the standup comic Sinbad played a genie. There …
9 years, 3 months ago
Sham U
Episode 371
A man called Zhao Lianshan distributed fake university admission offers to students admission to the Shandong Institute of Light Industry, through a …
9 years, 3 months ago
Do You Hear What AI Hear?
Episode 370
Researchers in Toronto have used a technology called “neural karaoke” to teach a computer to write a song after looking at a photo, and the little ca…
9 years, 3 months ago
Hold Fusion
Episode 369
In a study published in the latest edition of the journal Nature Communications, researchers confirmed that Germany's Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion e…
9 years, 3 months ago
Skating on Fin Ice
Episode 368
An amusement park in Japan has been forced to close its skating rink after a torrent of online criticism over its centerpiece: thousands of fish froz…
9 years, 3 months ago
Trajectory Plus Time
Episode 367
Why are humans so prone to running late? New findings published in Hippocampus suggest greater familiarity with an area leads us to overestimate its …
9 years, 3 months ago
Alien Where
Episode 366
According to a new study, layers of the upper atmospheres of cold brown dwarf planets sit at temperatures and pressures resembling those on Earth, an…
9 years, 3 months ago
Sin Full
Episode 365
When a loved one died in parts of England, Scotland, or Wales in the 18th and 19th centuries, the family would grieve, place bread on the chest of th…
9 years, 3 months ago
Get Retch Quick
Episode 364
A trio of fishermen in Oman made the catch of a lifetime when they came upon something far more valuable than their normal haul: 176 poundsof sperm-w…
9 years, 3 months ago