Mysterious News Briefly March 29, 2022 Researchers at Indiana University are using blow flies as chemical sensors to detect the use of chemical weapons and other pollutants in a military conflict – the blow flies fly through an environment, then a mass spectrometer reveals what chemicals were in their guts. Canaries will be thrilled
Space has always held a sort of fascination for us. Ever since before we even knew anything about it we have been looking up into that star-speckled sky trying to explain it and comprehend it all, our minds reaching out across that vast expanse long before any ship of ours did. Among all of our
Tourist attractions dole out millions on advertising to entice visitors to travel to their location, spend money and go back and tell their friends to do the same. If no one is showing up, it could be the message – while it may have a lot of them, Beaver, Oklahoma’s, slogan is “Cow chip capital
NASA is taking bids for a second lunar lander after controversy over the first contract with SpaceX resulted in a lawsuit by Blue Origin and another Musk vs. Bezos billionaire spat, with NASA says that competition is healthy. And in this case … entertaining. If you’ve been wondering why boa constrictors and other snakes don’t
Fans of the late 1970s sitcom “Mork & Mindy” know Robin Williams’ extraterrestrial character Mork came from the mysterious planet Ork. Over 40 years later, some new and equally mysterious ORCs have appeared – ‘odd radio circles’ in weird roundish shapes measuring a few million light-years in diameter. While previously only detected in radio wavelengths,